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Undergraduate Studies

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December 23,77

Action taken by the Senate Committee on

Undergraduate Studies at its meeting of November 29, 1977,

gives rise to the following motion:

MOTION

That Education 405 course challenge be

removed from the calendar entry of the

Professional Development Program and

that this procedure cease, effective

September 1, 1977.

NOTE - Education 405 is a one-semester professional

internship taken under supervision and it is

the position of the Faculty of Education that

all students in the Professional Development

Program can profit from it. Course challenge

was approved in order to accept, in rare

instances, those students who had extensive

prior professional experience and who could

demonstrate outstanding competence. Application

for course challenge commits the Faculty to a

very expensive procedure with dubious benefits.

For this reason the Faculty has proposed its

discontinuance.

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MEMORANDUM

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Secretary,

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DISCONTINUATION ?

EDUC405 .

COURSE CHALLENGE

From ...........

GeorgeIvany

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Dean,

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The Faculty of Education, at its meeting on April 18, 1977,

unanimously passed the following motion:

That Education 405 course challenge be removed

from the calendar entry of the Professional

Development Program and that this procedure cease,

effective September 1, 1977.

Please include this item on the agenda of the next

meeting of the Senate Committee of Undergraduate Studies.

Attached is a memorandum from Milton McClaren outlining the

rationale for this motion.

/George Ivany

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cc: Stan Kanehara

Marvin Wideen

Milton McClaren

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Members of the. Faculty of Education

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From. Milton McClaren .

Director

Professional Programs

Date.... March10,

1977

Education*

405

Course Challenge.

The Professional Programs Committee has reviewed the regulations governing

Course Challenge for Education

405

(University calendar, page 239, Item

8).

It is the

recon*nendation

of the Professional Progrdins Committee that

Education

'405

no

longer be availai4 for challenge, effective September,

1977.

The reasons for

making this change are as follows:

a)

A

large number of students appear to regard Education 405 challenge

as a means of simply shortening the Professional Development Program

whether or not they really have appropriate experience. In the past

semester, this has meant that we have had to deny more than

50%

of

student applications for course challenge.

b)

Tn spte

of

the fact that some students are technically able to

complete a successful àhallenge of Education 405 in terms

of

their

performance at the end

of

Education 401, there is frequent evidence

that these same students would benefit clearly from a regular Education

405

experience. . Given the philosophy of our program experience in

classrooms per se is not the same as experience in a specially chosen

educational placement under the supervision of a faculty associate

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and school associate. Moreover,

of

those students whose challenges

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have been allowed approximately 50% have been unsuccessful.

c)

The procedure

of

Education 405 challenge is complex and very expensive.

Applications mustbe carefully screened, suitable placements must

be found, special school associates must be selected and a highly

experienced faculty associate must review students in challenge

placements.

We do not have the staff to support this type

of

operation and still

attci'td

adequatei' to the needs . of regular students in the program. in addition,

the procedure is extremely expensive. In one case, in the interior

of

British &olumbia, the review

of

achallenge student cost in excess of

1,600. Thin includes the travel costs, accommodation costs and additional

man hours spent in reviewing her teaching.

In short the possible benefits

of

the procedure do not seem to outweigh

its

disadvantages. We have Education .406 available to students to under-

take a supervined period

of

practice teaching prior to re-entering the

.haiien(Jc would be to allow transfer

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credit for Education 405, or advanced

:L(ozth1ng

for

Education

405

on the basis of teaching experience in other

or

prior to re-entry to the Professional Development Program.

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clearly the wish of the Professional Programs C0710'iittee

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ti of students should undertake Education 406. ,'1ceordncjly,

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strike the requlat-ions under

Section 8

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fmisnicii niJ (,'cner'a 7. I?equ Za f;ions of the

Pro J.nsiona 1 L)cve '1

opment Program 's

L'nt.r?l in the

I!niicrsi ty

caLen(lar.

motion:

"That Education 405 Course Challenge be removed

from the Calendar Intry

of

the Professional

1)evelopmeflt Projram and that this procedure

effective September 1, 1977."

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months prior to the start of the semester in which

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the stiideiit proposes to resume his studies.

h) Silldellis ho have indicated their intention to undertake a given semester

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cssiolial Devc lopitient Progi ant and who do not honor this

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are considered to have withdrawn from the program. Per-

to re-enter is not given automatically (see 4(a) above.)

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request or he requil ed to discontinue studies in the Professional

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velopmt.-;it Program. A special fee refund schedule for students withdraw-

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and professional records of all students who have completed

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line ,tiitcst ers of file Professional Development Program will be subject

to e' c by the Facult

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bet oi e a recommendation for certification is for-

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tI d ill tie Department of I ducatioit

J!)t.i(. 401, 402,

405

are to be regarded as full-time professional studies and

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not he taken in Conjunctionwith ot her academic or professional courses.

8. (nurse Challenge ?

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Students it h a minimum of one years

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approved teaching experience at a

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rrcsponding to grades taught iii the B.C. public school system, may

challenge Ft )L JC 405 subject to the following:

(a) Applications for course challenge will be considered according to the

c'cncrally established requireiiieiils and proecures. See Sections 5.5 and

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(U) Students will normally be allowed to register in course challenge for

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Fl)U( 405 only while registered in Fl)t IC 401/402.

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The ii iax hun in amount of credit allowable through a combination of

cotirce chtalleiite and transfer credit For those who are successful in

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