is essential for teaching effectiveness and meeting goals. Teachers build lessons around 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 (excluding some brief, daily routine activities). This starts with the very first lesson. The specifics of lesson planning should be discussed with the supervisor and cooperating teacher. The required lesson plan format is provided in D2L. The cooperating teacher must review and approve each plan and provide feedback before and after the lesson. It is helpful if the feedback is written notes and not simply verbal. Supervisors should have a copy of the lesson plan one or two days in advance. If any changes are made to the lesson, a printed copy should be given the day of the observation. 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. Competency Appraisals are completed in SONIA. Student Teaching – Supervision 1. Two initial formal observations: These are similar to those that took place during the MGE 505 experience. Student teachers need to provide a copy of their lesson plan to the supervisor at least one day before each observed lesson. A pre-conference typically allows for discussion of areas where the student teacher would like feedback and what the supervisor should know about the lesson. There may also be a discussion of other areas: management, teaching, assessment, etc. After each observation of teaching, supervisors will set up a conference with the student teacher and with the cooperating teacher (together if possible) to discuss the experience and set goals for future lessons. 2. Midterm Evaluation Conference : This is held at the school near the middle week of the experience. This is a three-way conference with the student teacher, supervisor, and cooperating teacher. Prior to the meeting, each needs to complete the online. 3. Competency Appraisal to assess and document the progress of the student teacher. At the conference, these will provide the basis for a discussion of the student teacher’s development thus far. This is an appropriate time to set written goals for continued professional development during the remainder of the experience. 4. Final two formal observations : The same process as the first two observations is followed. These should be scheduled evenly during the last 5 weeks of Student Teaching.
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