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OHIO
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF EDUCATION SIGNS AGREEMENT WITH ATHENS
COUNTY SCHOOLS FOR COMPENSATION OF COOPERATING
TEACHERS
Contact:
Michelle Wilson, College of Education, 740-593-9341 or
University News Services, 740-593-9990
ATHENS,
Ohio -- Ohio University College of Education Dean James Heap
announced that an agreement has been signed with Athens
County Schools for compensation of cooperating teachers.
The agreement was reached at an October 29 meeting with Dean
Heap, Ohio University Provost Sharon Brehm, and Athens
County superintendents and administrators.
"The
university and the College of Education are very pleased and
excited about this agreement. We view the signing of the
agreement as opening a new era of dialogue and collaboration
with regional school districts," said Heap.
"I'm sure
I speak for educators across the region," said John
Costanzo, Superintendent of the Athens-Meigs Education
Service Center, "when I say we are delighted with the
agreement signed today. It supports teachers, and reflects
the value that the College of Education and Ohio University
place on the contribution of teachers in preparing new
members of the profession."
The
agreement will be in effect for the winter and spring
quarters of the 1999-2000 academic year. The agreement
states that compensation for cooperating teachers who accept
field experience students from the College of Education has
been increased from $8.00 to $10.00 per student per term. A
field experience student is a university student, typically
in her/his sophomore or junior year, who sits in and
observes a classroom for one day every week or every other
week. The agreement also states that cooperating teachers
who accept student teachers from the College of Education
will receive $125.00 or a "memorandum of credit" for 100% of
the costs of two graduate credit hours. According to the
old agreement, cooperating teachers who accepted student
teachers received $100.00, but there was no option to cover
the costs of graduate credit hours. A student teacher
differs from a field experience student in that a student
teacher is typically in her/his senior year, joins a
classroom for an entire quarter, participates in hands-on
teaching and essentially takes over the classroom and
teaches for the entire day the last two weeks of the
quarter.
Upon
signing the agreement, the parties involved will establish a
three-phase process to address this issue in the future. In
Phase One, a small group of school personnel and College of
Education personnel will establish a process for addressing
the major concerns of teachers, administrators, and College
of Education members. Phase Two will implement the process
developed in Phase One. Phase Three will have the narrower
focus of reviewing the outcomes from the first Exchange of
Services Agreement, in order to establish a second,
longer-term Agreement.
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