CATEGORY I—PROGRAM DESIGN
The professional educator program shall have a clearly articulated mission statement that is based on the needs of professional educator candidates, public school entities and students. The evidence required to satisfy that this standard is met includes:
- (1) The mission statement is cooperatively developed by faculty, candidates and other members of the professional community and documented under this section.
- (2) The professional educator program demonstrates coherence between the mission statement, academic standards as found in Chapter 4 (relating to academic standards and assessment), professional educator courses, field expe riences, instruction, evaluation, required candidate competencies, learning principles defined in § 354.33 (relating to professional competency), skill dimensions defined in § 354.32 (relating to monitoring and assessment), and is in compliance with this chapter.