MGE 505 Candidates should exemplify the following:
1. Attendance and active participation in weekly seminars that meet across the entire term. 2. Professional Demeanor : The faculty in Middle Grades Education is dedicated to preparing skilled, caring future classroom professionals. Teacher candidates must demonstrate behaviors that support their own professional development as well as the high achievement of children in the classroom. These behaviors and dispositions must demonstrate commitment to high academic, professional, and ethical standards, which includes wearing appropriate professional attire for school settings. 3. Lesson Planning: Candidates will be expected to plan and teach a minimum of four (4) lessons while in the MGE 505 classroom and will be observed while teaching at least two lessons by a university supervisor. 4. Reflective Journal : The purpose of maintaining a reflective journal is to provide an important record of candidate growth and to give the supervisor a greater understanding of what the candidate is experiencing. The supervisor will discuss his/her expectations regarding content and format of the journal. Journal prompts are often provided by supervisors. 5. Competency Appraisal: Teacher candidates should be thoroughly familiar with the Competency Appraisal. This will document progress in the important skills of teaching and constitutes an important portion of the grade. In MGE 505 and Student Teaching, the teacher candidate/student teacher, university supervisor, and cooperating teacher each fill out an online Competency Appraisal. Competency Appraisals are found in SONIA. In MGE 505, the Competency Appraisal is filled out at the end of the term. There is a school- based evaluation conference where the teacher candidate, university supervisor, and cooperating teacher discuss the candidate’s progress. 6. Video Recording : MGE 505 candidates are required to tape a lesson of their own choosing. The video is one component of the Analysis of Teaching and Learning (ATL) assignment.
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