Small Group Discussion - Group 2
Recorder: Barbara Merino

Charge: Unique contributions UCD can make.

List of Ideas:

*Road show
*Regional council
*Teaching science students
*Involvement of faculty - incentives & rewards
*Discipline bad
*Ideas to attract students into teaching
*Support programs
*Education/discipline core
*Issues of health
*Faculty attitudes about education
*Single point of contact
*Policy guidelines while maintaining objectivity
*Exchange of ideas
*Set up communication with schools
*Get educated

Ideas:

1. Problem: Feelings of isolation
   Solutions: Periodic meetings of people working in k-12 activities
2. Need for a program as a valued activity
   Solutions: Need to show long term commitment to the Division of Education
   
3. Focus on solutions that can work and with clear delimitations so that we can succeed
   
4. Offer our students and ourselves to do field trips
   Problem: A lack of connection with the earth
   Northern Cal Project has nothing about geology
   
5. Way we get involved with schools we need to do it as an interactive process.
   
6. Focus on the interrelationships of the schools, economy and community
   
7. Outreach through services to help students
   
8. Admissions goals will be served through outreach. Undergrad
   
9. Faculty need to be trained on how to work with schools. Build trust.
10. Learn from teachers
    
11. Need to provide help/expertise but through a dialogue without creating an over reliance.
    
12. How do you work with other organizations with different cultures?
    
13. Create a role for graduate students and provide training to facilitate their development in outreach.
    
14. How to create initiatives to involve others
    Take what we do so that it will make difference
    Fund the research that will answer questions of schools
    Primary role of university - take an appropriate place in public policy
    
15. Work with parents so that they know what universities can do

    Goals:
    

    1. Show community what we can do

    2. Change incentives

    3. Role for the humanities communication skill on the schools; character education

    4. Change culture of how educational decisions are made

    5. Informing the discussion

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       Goals reached by consensus
       

       1. Conduct research that answer the questions of the schools

       2. Inform the discussion of policy makers by research

       3. Show the community what the university could do: create curriculum

          Macro goals:

          I. Influence educational policy

          1. Influence shape educational policy
             a. linking research with K-12 problems
             
          2. Establish long term funding policy
             
          3. Emphasize that the university is an extension of K-12
             
          4. Obligation to public schools, value what they do
             

             Action examples: create an educational policy institute
             

             Strengths
             1. Expertise of faulty
                
             2. Strengthens the mission of land grant institutions
                
             3. Can inform teaching/research of faculty

             Weaknesses:

             1. Negotiating tension of mission of institution as informing playing an advocacy role.
                
             2. Faculty not equipped to shape policy, deal with the tensions<

                Action example: get the Dept. of Education with question that K-12 schools needs answered; create a research agenda around problems of schools.

                II. Create better teachers

                1. Mobilize undergraduate and graduate students to participate in outreach
                   
                2. Teach grad students to make their skills portable
                   
                3. Encourage students to be flexible in viewing their professional goals i.e. teaching could be a short term career
                   
                4. Provide job opportunities for grad students to participate in public schools
                   
                5. Conduct pedagogical research as part of training graduate students
                   
                6. Review and affirm the commitment of the Institution to teacher development
                   
                7. Promote research on teacher development

                Strengths:

                1. Facilitates career mobility, being marketable
                   
                2. Improves the quality of students coming to UCD
                   

                   Challenges:

                   1. Preparation needed for that engagement
                      
                   2. Need to challenge the culture that research is the best use of time
                      
                   3. Find better models for reviewing how graduate education view teaching
                      
                   4. Create avenues for research
                      
                   5. Provide stability to programs for teacher development

                      III. Make outreach an integral part of your job

                      1. New faculty need to get socialized to this role
                         
                      2. Training of grad students
                         
                      3. Training undergraduates to do outreach, see outreach as part of teaching
                         
                      4. Make it a requirement for all faculty to be engage in some way in outreach, teaching, research or service
                         Example include for Professor of the Future
                         Define outreach cogent ways for faculty
                         
                         Strengths:
                         1. Make university more relevant
                            
                         2. Strengthens the bond with the community

                         Weaknesses:

                         1. Another burden faculty
                            
                         2. Change reward the structure
                            
                         3. CAP must move to change the culture
                            
                         4. Caveat for junior faculty in dedicating time outreach
                            
                         5. Need vehicle/way for seeing the value of outreach

                            IV. Validate teaching and education

                            1. Support teachers in schools
                               
                            2. Support graduate students who are interested in teaching
                               
                            3. Support undergraduate students in education
                               
                            4. All departments are involved in teacher education
                               
                            5. Create better teachers
                               
                            6. Conduct pedagogical research
                               
                               Strengths:
                               1. Faculty voicing of the value of teaching can change attitudes.
                                  
                               2. Validating their own teaching by reflecting it on it.
                                  
                               3. Improve the quality of the students who come to UC.
                                  

                               Weaknesses:

                               1. Challenges the status quo.
                                  
                               2. Perceived threat in changing the university role as the intellectual mission of the university.
                                  
                               3. Tension between the roe of teachers as workers (unionized) and the role of the profession as educators charged with teaching children

                                  V. Outreach to policy makers in education, K-12 administrators, boards, principals administrators.

                                  1. Ongoing meetings
                                     
                                  2. Institute
                                     
                                  3. Engage in dialogue
                                     
                                  4. Create links with leadership research
                                  Strengths:
                                  1. Engage the dialogue can change attitudes
                                     
                                  2. Support change
                                     
                                  3. Study research that looks at the o organizational structure
                                     
                                  4. Shaping policy

                                  Weaknesses:

                                  1. Mobility of profession
                                     
                                  2. Lack of expertise in UCD