UNI Assurance Plan
November 5, 2001


We are pleased to announce that the Teacher Education Program at the University of Northern Iowa will now provide an Early Years of Teaching Assurance Program to the school districts of Iowa. In short, if you hire a UNI teacher education graduate and find that new teacher lacking in some aspects of their preparation to teach, UNI will work with you and the new teacher to develop an implementation plan. We will provide this at no cost to the school district. The new teacher must be in his/her first two [2] years of teaching and be assigned to teach in an area in which they were recommended for licensure by UNI.

Dr. Rori Carson, UNI Director of Teacher Education, is the contact person for the Early Years of Teaching Assurance Program. Dr. Carson can be reached at:

Dr. Rori R. Carson
Associate Dean/Director of Teacher Education
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, Iowa 50614-0602
1.319.273.2265 [office]
Rori.Carson@uni.edu

We encourage you to inform your building principals and the mentors assisting new teachers in your system of this opportunity.

The University of Northern Iowa is committed to preparing the very best professionals we can to serve the schools of Iowa. We are proud of our graduates and will support them and the school districts that hire them as we work together to continue the excellence in education that has made schooling in Iowa so distinctive.

Sincerely,

Thomas J. Switzer, Dean Rori R. Carson
College of Education Director of Teacher Education

For UNI Graduates in Their First Two Years
of Teaching in Iowa Schools

  • Should a teacher in his/her first two years of teaching in an Iowa school and the school district mutually request assistance from the University of Northern Iowa, the University will participate in an assessment process in cooperation with the teacher and the district to agree on an individualized plan for improving the teacher's performance. To be eligible for the program the new teacher must be teaching in an area in which he/she was recommended for licensure by UNI.

  • The University will assume leadership in coordinating and assisting in the implementation of the assistance plan with the cooperation of the teacher and the district.

  • Development of the implementation plan will be at no cost to the school district.

  • The school district must ultimately decide if performance has improved to the point where employment of the teacher will be extended beyond the probationary period.

  • To initiate the process complete the form provided and attach the information requested. Send these materials to Dr. Rori Carson, Director of Teacher Education, College of Education, 159A Schindler Education Center, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa 50614-0602.

    Online Form:
    To initiate the process online proceed to the Online Request Form page.
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    Mail Form:
    To initiate the process via mail, download the printer friendly version of our Request Form.
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Responsibility for evaluation and employment of the teacher is the sole responsibility of the school district. This Assurance Plan is a plan for assistance in improving a teacher's performance and not a guarantee. It should not be taken as creating a legal course of action against the University of Northern Iowa or its faculty.