8 Week Placements (1st 8 Weeks)
Unit 1:Weeks 1 – 3 Getting to Know Your Placement
Assignments:
Supervision Documentation: Please document each time your supervisor observes you throughout your placement(s) and submit this form at the completion of your student teaching experience. Supervision/Record
Day 1 Reflection -1st placement: Reflection Form Basic
Complete this reflection after your first day on the school campus. This can be a professional or in-service day or a day with students on campus. Choose any one of the eight Iowa teaching standards as your focus. (See course content for the Eight Iowa Standards). Remember that you can reflect on the school environment or the cultural environment, or both. This is due after the first day of your placement.
Long Range Plans:Refer to pages 137-143 in Defining the Relationship Handbook to help you complete this form: Long Range Plans
During your first week of student teaching, you should sit down with you cooperating teacher and complete this form together. Decide how you will progress from an observer to a teacher over the course of the placement. Typically you will observe and have small roles in the first week and increasingly take on additional responsibilities, prep periods and/or subject matter as the weeks progress. You should have two continuous weeks of full responsibility in each eight-week placement. During your final week you should spend some time observing other classes and teachers in the building and/or district.
Observation of Cooperating Teacher: This assignment is due during the second week of your placement. Instructions: Complete the form during your first week of observations. Pay attention to the details so you can ensure a smooth transition that when you assume responsibilities: Observation of Cooperating Teacher Form
Observation of Students: This assignment is due during the second week of your placement. Instructions: Complete the form. Pay attention to the details so that you will be prepared for all students and teach to their individual needs as you assume responsibilities in the classroom: Observation of Students Form
Blog Questions:
Week 1: Introduce yourself, your placement, and if you are keeping a personal blog for the semester then you may share the link if you wish. (Introduction Blog)
Week 3: How do students in your class know the expectations for their work and behavior? (Communicating Student Expectations Blog)
Unit 2:Week 4 – 6 Goal Setting, Instructional Planning
Assignments:
Week 4 Reflection:
This reflection is due at the end of your fourth week. Instructions: Complete this reflection sometime during your 4th week of student teaching. Choose any one of the eight Iowa teaching standards as your focus. (See course content for the Eight Iowa Standards). Remember that you can reflect on the school environment or the cultural environment, or both: Basic Reflection Form
Mid-Term Self Evaluation: This assignment is due at the midpoint of your placement.
Complete this midterm evaluation on yourself. Use this as a conversation piece at your midterm conference with your cooperating teacher to discuss how your thoughts may be similar or different regarding your progress. Ultimately, your cooperating teacher's midterm is what will be submitted via e-mail from their e-mail address, also e-mail your midterm to your coordinator.
Choose the appropriate form for your major and the placement you are currently completing.
**Note...Most of you will use the basic form called "Midterm evaluation". Only speech pathology majors and early childhood majors will use the other forms, all forms are available on the student teaching website.
Blog Question:
Week 5: Describe two ways that you are differentiating instruction for your students. (Planning Differentiated Instruction Blog)
Unit 3: Weeks 7 – 8 Self - Reflection
Assignments:
Final Reflection (1st Placement)
This assignment is due at the end of this placement:Reflection Form Final
Complete this reflection during your final week of student teaching in this placement. Please reflect on your personal and professional growth through your interactions in the cultural and school environment.
Remember to mail TWS to your UNI Supervisor: EdTPA will be uploaded to Show Evidence.
Carrie Elser/Leigh Martin
SEC 509
Cedar Falls, IA
50614-0617
Blog Question:
Week 7: What goals do you have for your second eight-week placement?