NCATE 2003 Review

The College of Education is preparing for the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) review planned for Spring 2003. NCATE is recognized by the U.S. Department of Education as the accrediting body for colleges and universities that prepare teachers and other professional personnel for work in elementary and secondary schools. Through its voluntary, peer review process, NCATE ensures that accredited institutions produce competent, caring, and qualified teachers and other school personnel who can help all students learn. The 2003 visit at UNLV is a "continued" 10-year review and is based on a new set of standards and a conceptual framework. The standards are divided into two sections, candidate performance (Standards 1 and 2) and unit capacity (Standards 3-6). One of the most significant aspects of the NCATE standards is the conceptual framework, the underlying structure of the unit that sets forth a vision and provides a theoretical and empirical foundation for the direction of programs, courses, teaching, candidate performance, faculty scholarship and service, and unit accountability.

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