Second Placement (Secondary)

Thank you immensely for mentoring a teacher candidate through their final placement. You are providing an amazing gift to our future educators!

Second Placement Schedule

For Winter term (January 4-Spring Break)---Teacher Candidates are in placement for 16-20 hours per week.

For Spring term (after Spring Break until Friday, June 11)---Teacher Candidates are in placement all day Monday-Friday, 40 hours per week and follow contracted teaching hours.

Starting after spring break and continuing through graduation, internship is all day (8 hours), five days a week (40 hours/week). For the entire spring term, candidates should take primary responsibility for the planning and be the lead teacher and assessor for at least half of the classes/subjects in internship. For at least 3 weeks, candidates will assume all the responsibilities of running a classroom (all classes/subjects). This includes full-day teaching (co-teaching is acceptable), planning, grading, parent communication, supervision duties, and school activities. This immersive experience will be great preparation for moving towards their own classroom. Each experience will be unique to the needs of the class, the Teacher Candidate, and the Cooperating Teacher. For AP or IB courses, Teacher Candidates will be co-teaching these classes, even during the three weeks, as they are not eligible to teach the content solely.

 

Policy For Teacher Candidate (TC) Absences

Any school day that a TC misses because of an emergency or illness must be reported to you before 7:00 a.m. on the day they will be missing. However, we encourage our students to try to notify you well before 7:00 a.m., if possible. The manner of how the Teacher Candidate reports the absence to the Cooperating Teacher should be agreed on before the student teaching placement begins. Teacher candidates are allowed 5 excused absences during their second placement. 

 

Inclement Weather Policy

If a school is closed due to inclement weather, TCs do not report to school. If a site is on a two-hour delay, TCs will connect with their Cooperating Teacher to clarify what time to report to school (often two hours later than normal, but not always). These hours are not counted as part of the excused absences.

If TCs live in an area where the schools are closed due to weather, but teach in a district where schools are open,TCs will not report to their assigned school. The closure in the TCs residing school district determines that it is not safe to drive. In this case, TCs will connect with their Cooperating Teacher and University Supervisor, and record a snow day/ school closure on their log of hours. If the residing school district is on a two-hour delay,TCs will connect with their Cooperating Teacher on the anticipated arrival time.

Observations and Evaluations

Winter Term (16-20 hours per week)

The winter term placement is part-time.

January

  • Anytime in January: University Supervisor will have a Meet and Greet with Cooperating Teacher/Teacher Candidate to begin the second placement. 

February

  • Anytime in February: Joint Formal Observation with Cooperating Teacher and University Supervisor

March

  • Anytime in March:
    • Mock Interviews for the Teacher Candidate with the University Supervisor due before break.
    • Individual Formal Observation with University Supervisor
    • Individual Formal Observation with Cooperating Teacher
  • End of Winter Term: Cooperating Teacher completes and discusses the Disposition Rubric with Teacher Candidate
  • Spring Break

Spring Term (40 hours per week)

The spring term is full-time student teaching, Monday through Friday.

April 

  • First week of spring term: Full-time placement meeting with Cooperating Teacher, University Supervisor, and Teacher Candidate to review expectations and requirements of phase-in and phase-out teaching plan
  • Anytime in April:
    • Individual Formal Observation with University Supervisor 
    • Individual Formal Observation with Cooperating Teacher 

May

  • Anytime in May:
    • Individual Formal Observation with University Supervisor 
    • Individual Formal Observation with Cooperating Teacher 
  • Late May: Team Meeting to end out second placement with Cooperating Teacher, University Supervisor, and Teacher Candidate 

June

  • June 8: Teacher Appreciation Dinner with Cooperating Teachers, University Supervisors, and Teacher Candidates!
  • June 11: End of placement 

* Teacher Candidates' last day in your classroom will be Friday, June 11th.

 

Second Placement

Teacher Candidates will begin in a part-time format until winter break and then move to full days after spring break for the duration of spring term

Teacher Candidate will:

  • Review all part-time and full-time placement benchmarks with Cooperating Teacher. Establish mutually agreeable times for planning on a regular basis.
  • Work with Cooperating Teacher to establish introductions with parents/guardians of students in classroom.
  • Participate in parent conferences.
  • Submit a completed time log of hours at the end of the placement.
  • Work with Cooperating Teacher to prepare classroom environment for students, establish assessment and management plans.
  • Attend orientation activities, on-site seminars, and school staff meetings.
  • Talk to Cooperating Teacher about special needs students in your classroom.  Review student files and attend IEP meetings.
  • Establish collaborative relationships with Cooperating Teacher and other colleagues at school site.
  • Maintain a standard of professional ethics demonstrated through words and actions.
  • Engage immediately in some regular classroom routines.
  • Ask Cooperating Teacher to observe you informally while you teach and provide feedback on your teaching. Discuss the format/model for the Formal Observation Process with Cooperating Teacher and University Supervisor well in advance of first Formal Observation.