relevant student experiences to encourage optimum student achievement and engagement, to support student independent thinking, and to develop student interest and love of learning. Please keep the following in mind: The university requires that candidates generate a formal lesson plan for every lesson taught (including resource and co-taught placements and excluding some brief, daily routine activities). This starts with the very first lesson. Candidates are encouraged to use the most current version of the SPE Program’s lesson plan template, distributed by the seminar leader and found in D2L, unless the school requires their own lesson plan format. If not using the NLU/SPE template, the student teacher should check with the seminar leader, university supervisor, and cooperating teacher as to which template is best suited for a specific placement. Daily lesson plans must be aligned including at a minimum the following: • Standards • Objectives for Student Learning • Assessment Procedures • Planned Supports • Materials • Instructional Procedures Each plan is to be submitted in advance to the cooperating teacher for feedback. The cooperating teacher must review and initial each plan to signify approval and give feedback before and after the lesson. It is helpful if the feedback is written notes and not simply verbal. Student teachers are required to give supervisors a copy of the lesson plan for every lesson that is observed. Many supervisors request plans one or two days in advance of the scheduled observation in order to provide feedback. During observation visits, supervisors will ask to review plans for all the lessons that have been planned and implemented, so the student teacher should collect and organize them in a way so they can be easily retrieved. Maintaining a notebook [3-ring binder] of lesson plans is suggested. 4. Competency Appraisal: In Student Teaching, the Competency Appraisal is filled out once at midterm and again before the final meeting between the student teacher, cooperating teacher, and university supervisor. Each time there is a school-based evaluation conference in which the candidate’s progress is discussed. The midterm Competency Appraisal may be used to set goals for the remainder of the Student Teaching experience. 5. As of this past Spring, we need to ensure that all of our Teacher Candidates are completing the mandatory School Safety Module as a part of our student teaching Seminars.
Special Education P2/ST Handbook 2025-2026
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