Professional Development Schools

The College of Education has partnerships with 56 professional development schools in Indiana. A professional development school is an elementary, middle, or high school that works collaboratively with faculty to develop and demonstrate exemplary learning practices, provide field-based preparation for preservice teacher education candidates, and discover new educational knowledge. 

Teacher Education Field Experiences and Student Teaching

All teacher education programs at Purdue involve students in early field experiences and student teaching. In a typical year, the College of Education places more than 2000 students in early field experiences and more than 500 students in student teaching. For more information visit the Office of Field Experiences.

International Partnerships

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Initiatives

College of Education faculty partner with schools on funded engagement projects and sponsor cost-recovery programs that provide direct services to students and professional development workshops for teachers. These projects are disseminated nationally via conference presentations, curriculum guides, CD's, and journal articles. Sample projects from recent years include:

• The BRIDGe program partnered with Klondike elementary schools to provide a support program for bereaved families Discover!  a summer professional development institute on the Purdue campus for P-12 educators working with gifted and talented students
• Discover!, a summer professional development institute for teachers, focused on practical strategies to help children reach their full potential
• The Diversity Initiative for Gifted Students (DIGS) provided support to talented inner city and rural youth
• The Scientific Literacy Project provided strategies in scientific literacy for Lafayette preschool and kindergarten teachers as part of a large federally funded project
• The Shared Information Services Library provided enrichment resources for P-12 educators and preservice teachers
• The Tech-Know-Build Challenge Grant partnered with Crawfordsville Community Schools to investigate problem-based learning strategies at the middle school level
• The Writing Summit brought together statewide experts to chart an agenda for P-12 writing instruction in Indiana.

Centers

• Ackerman Center - The Ackerman Center provides training for teachers in democratic citizenship
• Gifted Education Resource Institute provides enrichment programs on the Purdue campus for talented P-12 youth
• The Purdue Counseling and Guidance Center provides counseling for more than 200 clients from the greater Lafayette area each year

Annual COE ENGAGEMENT Reports:

2005-2006 Engagement Report (PDF)

COE ENGAGEMENT TASK FORCE

Draft Definition of Engagement:

Definition Draft (PDF)

Meeting Minutes:

03/06/2007 Engagement Task Force Meeting (PDF)

01/23/2007 Engagement Task Force Meeting (PDF)

11/14/2006 Engagement Task Force Meeting (PDF)

Agenda: 

03/06/07 Engagement Task Force Agenda (PDF)

11/14/2006 Engagement Task Force Agenda (PDF)

Support Programs

Synergy Grants:

• Synergy Grant Application (PDF)
• Synergy Grant Evaluation Rubric (PDF)

Purpose:   To support research and development projects that will strengthen preparatory education, improve the learning and development of P-12 students, and create synergistic, discovery-oriented partnerships among Purdue University faculty and Indiana's P-12 teachers, counselors, and administrators.  Supported projects must address the goals of the Holmes Partnership and be conducted in a school that agrees to participate in the Purdue Professional Development School (PDS) network for the duration of the project.

The Holmes Partnership:   The Holmes Partnership is a consortium of nearly 100 American research universities committed to making programs of teacher preparation more rigorous and connected?to liberal arts education, to research on learning and teaching, and to best-practice in the schools.  The Holmes Partnership suggests six goals for Professional Development School Partnerships:

1. High quality professional preparation
2. Simultaneous renewal
3. Equity, diversity, and cultural competence
4. Scholarly inquiry and programs of research
5. School and university-based faculty development
6. Policy initiation

Application Process: 

Purdue Education Faculty and personnel from one or more P-12 PDS partnership schools work together to develop a proposal for funding of a research and development project following the guidelines on the application (Due 4/15/07) .

Each member of the PDS Synergy Grants Committee completes an evaluation rubric for each proposal and the Committee then prioritizes proposals and selects projects for funding during the following academic year.

Past Recipients:

Information for the 2007-2008 competition will be available in Fall 2007.

Service Learning Grants - text to come