Committee on Teacher Education (COTE)

Membership

Representatives include all teacher education specialty area program coordinators, advisors of education majors, all full-time teacher education faculty, program directors, partnership liaisons, Director of Clinical Practice in Education, Director of Field Experiences in Education, Associate Director of School of Education, Licensure Officer, and a representative from the library as voting members and the Registrar, admissions representative, and the Director of the School of Education as non-voting members. Because membership in COTE is based on faculty and administrative roles rather than election or appointment, all members of COTE are ex-officio.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the teacher education “Unit” (the persons comprising and directing the teacher education program). “Unit” is a technical term used by external agencies.

• Implement assessment procedures to monitor undergraduate and graduate programs.

• Regularly review policies and procedures of the undergraduate and graduate programs.

• Create initiatives to improve the teacher education program.

• Formulate and administer criteria for student admission to the program and the professional semester.

• Approve candidate for admission to the program and for the professional semester.

• Hear student appeals.

• Maintain the program to comply with state and national standards.