Wisconsin Technical College System Board
310 Price Place, PO Box 7874
Madison, WI 53707
Dr. Richard Carpenter, President
Present:
Members Absent:
Kitty Willkomm ,Waukesha County Technical College
Nicholas Triscari, Milwaukee Area Technical College
John Hamilton, Western Wisconsin Technical College
Chairperson Karen Lawlor called the meeting to order at 8:45 AM.
It was noted that Val Roeser's name should be removed from the absent list. A motion was made by Bill Barribeau and seconded by Val Roeser to approve the minutes of the December 14, 2001 meeting. Motion carried.
The document 10-154-3 Computerized Support Specialist and 31-154-4 Microcomputer Applications Specialist was reviewed. It was suggested to separate the document into two documents in order to be consistent with how all documents are written. Jan Jablonski made a motion to accept as two separate documents, seconded by Mary Halberstadt. Motion carried.
The discussion began at the Level 5 & 6 detail section. Jan Jablonski indicated it would be helpful to MATC Milwaukee to have a separately numbered History section to tighten the requirements to 20 credits of appropriate History credits. She has recently had an individual with Church History credits trying to make a case for being certified in History. Language was added to a new 853 History section to read "BS/BA with minor or 20 semester credits of History relevant to the content area being taught." Mary Ann Jackson indicated while she is not opposed to adding 853 History, she would not support removing History out of 859 Social Science. Language was added in 859 to read, "Twelve credits in the discipline being taught are required for Adult High School."
Computer Basics 860 and Career Education 862 were approved as written.
Lou Chinnaswamy lead the discussion on the proposed revisions. Members
of the workgroup felt TESL, VESL, TEFL and Bilingual Education should be added.
Also, Foreign Language was changed to Foreign Language Instruction. It is anticipated
this will cause some staffing issues for some districts. Also, under what would
be old option 3, the 6 credits of Education Requirements was deleted.
It appears that the ESL teachers desire to raise the bar for instructors getting
certified. There is a larger pool of ESL trained people available, and this
trend is similar to what occurred in the past within the Adult Basic Education
area.
Jan mentioned that "Adult Ed Methods" should be changed to "Ed Methods". Mary Ann mentioned that Betty Hayes at the UW would be developing an Education Methods course specifically designed for Adult Basic Ed instructors. This course will meet the competencies of Requirement # 52.
Jan Jablonski made a motion, seconded by Mark Kearns to accept the document as changed, allowing for state board staff to make cosmetic changes to the document. Motion carried.
The proposed change to increase lab substitute hours to 30 was reviewed. Committee members are concerned that Basic skills lab hours would be included in this change, and do not feel that would be acceptable. Also, members feel that no matter what the limit is set at, there would always be individuals who would want more. Some state board consultants did not support the change. A motion was made by Mark Kearns, seconded by Bill Barribeau, to leave the Guideline as is. Motion carried.
The final version of the document was reviewed. The question was raised as to if current courses could be left in the program area they are now in. The answer is yes. Mary Peters made a motion, seconded by Val Roeser to accept the document as is. Motion carried.
Each workgroup gave an update on their progress to date. The new categories appear to be fitting in nicely with the re-design of the website. Val volunteered her district staff to key all of the workgroup recommendations into one set of documents for review at the March 1, 2002 meeting.
Karen Lawlor discussed the review of the competencies of the Certification Courses. This needs to be done again. It was decided to put them up on the web for review and comment for 1 month time, hopefully from the end of February to end of March. Then the Committee can review at the May meeting. Sharon will send e-mail notifying district certification staff when the documents will be up on the website. Also, once the new website is up and running, Sharon will notify district certification staff and state board will also set up a re-route message from the old website to the new one.
Committee members would like to meet Dr. Carpenter, the new state Director at the March 1st meeting if possible.
A motion was made by Bill Barribeau and seconded by Mary Peters to adjourn
the meeting. Motion carried. Meeting adjourned at 1:05PM.