Pre-internship Field Study

Role of Partner School Teachers and In-school Administrators:

Allow opportunities to learn

• For teacher candidates to engage in observation to small group facilitation to implementation of mini lesson plans to a sequence of lessons during the full-time weeks in the school in November and March/April.

Allow opportunities for broad based experience:

• Multiple grade experiences
• Multiple subject area experiences
• Invite participation in extra-curricular events and PD opportunities

Allow opportunities for teacher talk:

• can be done through PLCs - one large or several small groups of teachers and teacher candidates focused on one or more school or divisional goals related to the Learning Improvement Plan
• discuss foci for lessons and observations, written lesson plans with before the teaching takes place to ensure the plan fits with your classroom learning goals (post-instruction discussions can include written suggestions for the teacher candidate).
• encourage "Learning Focused Supervision"

Experiment/Risk-take

• support teacher candidates in carrying out peer coaching and team teaching (with each other and with you)

Assist teacher candidates in gathering evidence for their Professional Growth Portfolio (PGP)

• Please provide formal written feedback for some lessons taught by the teacher candidate
• allow opportunities for teacher candidates to complete assignments connected to on-campus course work

Complete Field Experience Assessment forms with teacher candidates at the end of term 1 and term 2.

• Use the teacher candidates' PGP for this
• Can be done collaboratively by several teachers and in-school administrators

 

For additional information contact:

Field Experiences
College of Education
28 Campus Drive
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

966-7665

education.internship@usask.ca