Glossary of Frequently Used ESEE Terminology
Cohort Co-Coordinators: Individuals charged with ongoing leadership, support, and advising for the cohort. Roles include:
Candidate Coordinator: communication and progression with candidates
Faculty Coordinator: shared faculty systems
Field Activity Coordinator: clear and consistent procedures for field
Placement Coordinator: school partnerships and field placements.
ESEE – Exceptional Students and Elementary Education, where candidates are prepared for both special education and general elementary education licenses, K-6.
FSC – Fully Self Contained Classrooms. Alternative settings, typically with a lower student-teacher ratio, for enhanced academic support for the children whose needs cannot be fully met in a general education classroom.
IRIS – The IRIS Center develops and provides free, online teaching and learning tools, instructional and content Modules, and other materials for improving the knowledge and skills of faculty, professional development providers, educators, and independent learners.
Inclusion – students with disabilities are supported in chronologically age-appropriate general education classes in their home schools and receive the specialized instruction delineated by their individualized education programs (IEP's) within the context of the core curriculum and general class activities (Florida State University Center for Prevention & Early Intervention Policy, 2002).
School Liaison – a DOE faculty member who has accepted responsibilities for communication and coordination at a single school site.
Site Coordinator – A designated field supervisor with responsibilities at a single school site who helps with face-to-face problem solving, delivers communications, and coordinates events. Whenever possible, this responsibility will belong to a cohort coordinator.
Strands – Courses designed together in a sequence, over time. ESEE strands:
1. Learner in the Environment
2. Assessment
3. Planning and Instruction
4. Literacy
5. Field
Themes – guiding frameworks for content and pedagogy recurring throughout the ESEE program. Including:
Co-Teaching: Two teachers working together with groups of students, sharing the planning, organization, delivery,
and assessment of instruction, as well as the physical space (Bacharach, Heck &Dank, 2004). Co-teaching is explicitly taught, modeled at the collegiate level, and encouraged in field settings between candidate and mentor.
CREDE: Center for Research on Education, Diversity, and Excellence. Based on Vygosty’s theories and 30 years of research, this is the framework ESEE has adopted and adapted to address culturally and linguistically diverse
learners.
EBP: In education the term evidence-based practice is used both as a noun and as a verb. As a noun an
evidence-based practice is an intervention that is based in science. As a verb evidence-based practice is the
disposition of a practitioner to base the selection of their interventions in science. Teacher candidates will learn how
to utilize specific evidence-based practices (EBPs) during the program as well as credible sources for identifying
EBPs to meet the needs of diverse learners (Cook, 2015).
UDL: Universal Design for Learning. Based on neuroscience, UDL provides a framework for addressing learner
variability through the design of options for learner engagement, representation, action and expression.
RTI: Response to Intervention. A tiered approach to the early identification and support of students with learning
and behavior needs.
Threads: Specific content that has been explicitly designed to be woven into selected courses (see “Course Progression”)
1. IT/AT: Instructional Technology and Assistive Technology. This thread occurs in semesters 1-3.
2. Severe Disabilities: Instructional design, modification, and adaptations to create access for students with multiple disabilities and severe educational needs. This thread occurs as in Assessment II and in online modules in Semesters 2-3.
3. MLL: Multi-Language Learners. Instruction relevant for understanding the complex role of language in learning, along with approaches for teaching students who speak and are learning more than one language. This thread occurs in Semester 1.
Site Coordinator – A designated field supervisor with responsibilities at a single school site who helps with face-to-face problem solving, delivers communications, and coordinates events. Whenever possible, this responsibility will belong to a cohort coordinator.