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Department of Education
University of Michigan-Flint
430 French Hall
Flint, MI 48502

Phone: (810) 762-3260
Fax: (810) 762-3102
Office Hours: 8:00am-5:00pm
Monday through Friday

Teacher Preparation Program Assessment
Public School Employers

Thank you for agreeing to assist the University of Michigan-Flint in assessing the quality of graduates from our teacher preparation program. Your ratings and comments will be combined with those of other employers and will be utilized by the Department of Education to undertake program improvements. You can rest assured the identities of individual respondents in this survey will be not be revealed.

The following list of ten competencies has been created to describe the fundamental skills a new teacher should possess in order to be successful in a classroom today. Based on your observations of the performance of UM-Flint teachers you have hired in the past two years, please rate the level of preparation those individuals, as a group, exhibit in each competency. Also, if you have comments that will help us better understand the reasons for your ratings, please feel free to state them.

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Competency	Rate the level of preparation of your recently-hired teachers from UM-Flint on the following competencies.	Comments?
Competency	Very Prepared Not Prepared	Comments?
1. Knowledge of subject matter	1 2 3 4 5
2. Insight into the developmental, emotional, and instructional needs of children	1 2 3 4 5
3. Ability to deliver instruction effectively to students	1 2 3 4 5
4. Focus on student learning and achievement, and assessment of academic progress	1 2 3 4 5
5. Ability to work successfully with colleagues, parents, and others in a learning community	1 2 3 4 5
6. Skill in working with students from diverse populations, and those with special needs	1 2 3 4 5
7. Organizational skills needed to maximize time-on-task in the classroom	1 2 3 4 5
8. Ability to reflect, to learn from experience, to adjust plans as needed	1 2 3 4 5
9. Ability to manage and monitor student behavior	1 2 3 4 5
10. Proficient with instructional technology	1 2 3 4 5

Next, we’d like to give you the opportunity at this time to make suggestions to the faculty at the University of Michigan-Flint as to how they might revise the overall teacher preparation program in order to prepare teacher candidates to meet the challenges and responsibilities facing teachers today. What suggestions, if any, would you like to make?

Finally, are there any other general comments you would like to make about the teacher preparation program at the University of Michigan-Flint?

That completes our survey. Thank you again for your help with this important project!

Very Prepared Not Prepared