When evaluating technology-based instruction, there needs to be appropriate evaluation techniques that are in line with the methods of instruction, objectives and the technology. In particular, you should consider the following prescriptions for successful student teaching, which are closely related to the Temple Teaching Standards and which your instructors have emphasized throughout the program. As the name suggests, the primary function of the teacher includes teaching a variety of facts and skills to students. There now needs to be a sustained emphasis on creating research-rich and evidence-rich (rather than simply data-rich) schools and classrooms. How can we enable more teachers in the UK to engage in research and enquiry? Please be sure to check with your cooperating teacher or school staff before videotaping or taking photos of students. If an emergency should require you to be absent or late, it is your responsibility to contact the cooperating teacher and the university coach, as far in advance as possible or as soon as possible. With the widespread availability of student databases that are able to track individual progress, teachers are encouraged to identify learning objectives and differentiate instruction based on the needs of their students. The situation is even worse in preschool. This in turn has focused attention on the importance of teacher education, from initial training and induction for beginning teachers, to on-going professional development to help update teachers knowledge, deepen their understanding and advance their skills as expert practitioners. Finally, although the use of cell phones is ubiquitous and somewhat necessary in many instances, many schools have adopted specific rules regulating or banning the use of cell phones in schools. A rubric for the Temple standards will be used to assess your ability to utilize and explain the standards as they have become part of your teaching practice. The Inquiry aims to shape debate, inform policy and influence practice by investigating the contribution of research in teacher education and examining the potential benefits of research-based skills and knowledge for improving school performance and student outcomes. Your professionalism and ability to understand the school culture will facilitate your assimilation into the school community. 1 0 obj
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It is to the youth of our country that we owe our accountability as they are our future. During student teaching, you will enact in the classroom the teaching theories, strategies, and standards you learned in your core courses. In 2014, minority students became the majority in the U.S., yet more than 80% of teachers are White. Remember that teaching is collaborative and dynamic and everyones teaching can constantly be improved. Black students are also more likely to be suspended for minor offenses such as talking back to a teacher or writing on a desk. The RSA uses cookies on this website. school beautification/improvement programs, activities to improve school-wide attendance, after school tutoring or recreational programs. Lindsay and Hart, however, caution against using these findings to justify segregated racial groupings. While teachers do sometimes need to seek out more formal consequences in the case of non-negotiable infractions such as violence or weapon possession, teachers can manage the majority of student behaviors in ways that do not even invoke the discipline process, let alone lead to suspensions and other more serious consequences. Policy-makers around the world have approached the task of teacher preparation and professional development in different ways, reflecting their distinctive values, beliefs and assumptions about the nature of professional knowledge and how and where such learning takes place. New evidence shows that teacher race plays a role in predicting the likelihood of Black student suspensions and expulsions. Later on in the semester you will be teaching or co-teaching with your cooperating teacher for the entire day. As you continue to gain responsibility in the classroom and learn more about your students and the school, you should also reflect on your practice. During student teaching, you will enact in the classroom the teaching theories, strategies, and standards you learned in your core courses. Research the neighborhood on-line, do a walk-through or driving tour of the neighborhood, and/or talk to representatives of area community-based organizations. Teacher Race and Student Discipline. Rather than privileging one type of institutional approach, these principles should be applied to all institutional settings and organisations where teacher education and professional learning takes place. Get guidelines for reporting abuse or other difficult situations. Ask for information about school forms (roll sheets, attendance, hall passes, discipline forms, and any special education documentation or other important paperwork). In deciding what makes an effective teacher, it is not only their cognitive abilities that are important. If we value the education of young Australians, we must value the role teachers have in this process. In particular, effective teachers know and use differentiated approaches to instruction, as well as a variety of methods for assessing the needs and progress of all of their students and communicating that progress to students and their parents as appropriate. Use Technology to Enhance Instruction: Our world is largely driven by the use of technology to garner information. Eventually, you will teach for longer periods of the day and continue to co-teach and co-plan with your cooperating teacher. What matters most is your developing capacity to evaluate your own teaching through reflection and to take action to strengthen it. This may be because many educators have yet to explore the relationship between technology and pedagogy. Your coach determines your final grade for student teaching with the help of evaluations completed by your cooperating teacher. If we value the education of young Australians, we must value the role teachers have in this process. <>>>
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Teacher Candidates, Cooperating Teachers, and University Coaches will access TK20 (http://edtemple.tk20.com) to complete the forms used for progress monitoring and evaluation during student teaching. She is interested in adaptive learning technologies and its impact on higher education. You will need to pass the SPAin order for Temple to recommend you for certification. Although you are encouraged to take pictures of student work, if you want to take pictures or videotape students working in the classroom, remember that your school has policies regarding recording images of students. Ask about procedures for requesting custodial assistance. Remember that your behavior serves as a model for your students behavior. Your cooperating teacher will also evaluate your student teaching. 5 0 obj
As a student teacher you will be challenged by the demands of teaching students who are both academically under-performing and those who achieving well beyond the level of their peers. 5. To help you make the transition from student to teacher, you will share the classroom with an experienced professional who will impart to you his or her knowledge of best practices and the wisdom acquired from years of experience. As a student teacher, when you accept your placement you indicate to us that you are willing to abide by the regulations, procedures, and instructional practices for the school to which you have been assigned. For example, a teacher who sees that many students are writing sentences containing misplaced modifiers can present a minilesson on this concept, using examples from student writing. Your university coach has valuable experience as a teacher and often as an administrator. In addition, you have specific responsibilities as a Temple University student teacher. In this role, your coach will not only offer suggestions and target areas for improvement, but will also note positive developments in your growth as a teacher. Ask about procedures for working with special needs students and their support team(s). Get guidelines for handling medical needs of students (medications, injuries, allergies). Public perception of teachers influences not only those who may be considering entering this profession, but also how those already in this profession perceive themselves. If and when you communicate by e-mail with students, teachers, or parents in the school, make sure to use your Temple email address. At the same time, for technology to work effectively, it should only be incorporated in classroom if it is appropriate for a given instructional task. All students, regardless of race, rate teachers of color higher than White teachers, and Black teachers have higher expectations for Black students than White teachers. We recognize, however, that emergencies do happen. As part of the expectation that you master the standards for teaching and enact these standards through your teaching, planning, assessment, and reflection, every student teacher must collect evidence, data, and other artifacts of their student teaching experience for their electronic portfolios. Black students are suspended and expelled at disproportionately high rates, leading to more time out of the classroom.Photo courtesy of pixabay.com. Our new animation and publication explore how we can unleash creativity among teachers, with 11 authors offering their perspective from practice, policy and academia on how we can improve teacher quality. Don't have an account? 0
Technology can therefore be seen as both a tool and a catalyst for change. Your cooperating teacher has expressed a willingness to share his or her professional experience and knowledge as well as a commitment to work with new teachers. <>
This study presents yet another reason to invest in a more diverse teaching workforce. You may also want to include videos of classroom activities and pictures of bulletin boards and other visuals. Sometimes these skills are given prominence as cross-curricular priorities, but it is not always clear who takes responsibility for their learning within the different subject areas. Although this is a most exciting time in your developing career as an educator, it will not be easy. At a time when teacher education is under active development across the four nations of the United Kingdom, an important question for all those seeking to improve the quality of teaching and learning is how to boost the use of research to inform the design, structure and content of teacher education programmes. The focus on what makes a better teacher then rests on the difference a teacher can make with each student. Further consideration needs to be given to the best ways of developing such a strategy, in consultation with all the relevant partners. As you gain experience and become more skilled, you should strive to meet the six Temple Teaching Standards. Both your cooperating teacher and your coach can be excellent resources to help you improve your teaching and to ensure that your students are learning. For many countries including Australia, teaching is not an attractive career. *This weeks guest blogger is Joyce Waddell. Tour the school building. Today, technologies used to improve and facilitate learning can be found everywhere. Student teaching is often characterized as the most transformative experience in teacher education. Graduate student teachers in paid positions are required to submit detailed lesson plans for each of the lessons during which they are observed by the Temple University coach and prepare all other lesson plans in accordance with the guidelines and procedures established by their school or district employer. All requests for planned absences must be submitted in writing to the university coach and approved by the university coach and cooperating teacher in advance. By using this website you are agreeing to our use of cookies. endobj
Being a student teacher will provide you plenty of opportunities to work with students from diverse backgrounds who have diverse needs and interests. Discuss with your cooperating teacher the procedures for classroom management (e.g., student movement, materials distribution, rewards systems) and discipline (e.g., in class, school/district reporting, communicating with parents). More Info, Report
Get to know the school community. A teacher can solve many of the problems of the student concerning his thoughts, behavior, career, etc. Over 100 years after Colegrove published The Teacher and the School, Secretary of Education (2009-2015) Arne Duncan adds, We often talk about parents being partners in education. 12 0 obj
Supporting inclusive education and honoring diversity requires purposeful differentiation, including adaptations for children who learn in different ways, at different rates, with different supports, and/or who demonstrate their knowledge and skills in different ways. Using the knowledge, theories and best practices from your coursework, you should develop both self-awareness and also awareness of the political and social contexts that influence schooling, placing you on a path toward teacher leadership. The study acknowledges that it is difficult to identify the specific reasons for this. The fundamental premise of being a teacher is to add value to the learning of each student in your care. Graduate Specializations and Certificates, Office of International Studies in Education, Education Policy Innovation Collaborative, Graduate Student Scholarships & Fellowships, Taking a Lesson from Teachers to Avoid Summer Learning Loss. For theSPA, you will submit a teaching portfolio that contains a number of documents (lesson plans, a unit plan, a copy of your IPA, your teaching philosophy, a reflective essay, a child study, etc.) Through conscientious planning to develop active and engaging lessons, teaching to ensure equity and understanding for all of your students, collaborating with other professionals and community members in the school, and constantly reflecting on your own practice as you strive towards improvement, you will emerge at the end of this experience a fully qualified and confident professional teacher. While this is a simple example, there are many more examples of individual instances where indigenous groups of students, who typically focus on visual cues for their understanding, need explicit help in focusing on tasks, such as NAPLAN items, that require them to focus on text analysis. Although your coach is responsible for grading your student teaching, he/she is also your mentor and cheerleader. Some attribute low levels of technology use in education to the pedagogical beliefs of teachers. This will allow you to better understand the different needs of the children in your class and continuously improve your practice. Portsmouth, Hampshire, The future of international development Overall, technology is central to many sectors of society and its integration into the education process has great promise for student learning. The role of teachers in education extends past the responsibility of passing along information. 9JBZD N^z+fyB2$uDq2t8bm
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Always adhere to the standards of dress adopted by the school faculty. This is because teachers have the responsibility of facilitating instruction and incorporating technology at the classroom level, yet many school administrators tend to make decisions related to technology adoption/training without consulting teachers. Find out when and how grades are issued; review report card format. Learn about student records (academic records, IEPs, disciplinary records): where they are located and what restrictions there are due to confidentiality. Moreover, technology can place teachers in a better position to customize learning for students with special needs. It is during these post-observation conversations that the team (consisting of you, your coach, and your cooperating teacher) will chart goals for growth that will help you focus on improving targeted aspects of your teaching over time. They connect their day-to-day activities to coherent social, philosophical, and political frameworks. Oxford, Oxfordshire, Copyright 20102020, The Conversation Trust (UK) Limited, Melbourne Declaration of Educational Goals for Young Australians. Towards the end of the seminar, you will need to pass the Senior Performance Assessment (SPA), which is designed to evaluate your mastery of Temples teaching standards. You should be in attendance every day during your student teaching placement. While skills in literacy and numeracy are important, so are abilities such as creative thinking, problem solving and managing risk. Black students are disproportionately disciplined in schools at alarming rates. x]k0
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Effective teachers pose real, substantive problems for learners and set explicit expectations for learning; they actively engage students in learning and draw on a variety of resources, including innovative technologies and the students own lives, communities and prior knowledge to support these efforts. This discourse about struggles and strategies will not only benefit you, but other teachers, both novice and experienced, with their own practice. For example, a school has performed well below expectation every year in year 5 NAPLAN tests. It may be the case that Black teachers have stronger classroom management skills, that Black students respond differently to Black teachers, or that Black teachers are simply more tolerant of particular behaviors. 01 Jan 2014. Despite the fact that many schools today are privileged to have ready access to technology, trained teachers, and a favourable policy environment, the use of technology in the classroom is still low. Contrast this with the US research sampling of 802 young college graduates (not teachers) in the US about their perceptions of teachers as underpaid, had to worry about personal safety, lacked career opportunities and were made scapegoats for many difficulties in education. These countries are often seen as high performers on international comparison tests such as PISA and TIMSS. She has been a social media specialist and freelance blogger since 2014. Furthermore, teachers gather, analyze, and use the data from student performance (both informal and formal) to make instructional and curricular decisions. The attitudes they have are also important, such as caring, fairness, respect for students, peers, parents and the general community, enthusiasm, motivation, dedication to teaching, morality, ethics and a sensitivity to childrens experiences.
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Your attitude and work habits have a huge impact on the nature of your experience. Check to see if the school has a professional dress code. With that said, the potential of technology to enhance learning cannot be overemphasized. <>/Font<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB/ImageC/ImageI] >>/MediaBox[ 0 0 960 540] /Contents 4 0 R/Group<>/Tabs/S/StructParents 0>>
Your seminar instructor will review the portfolio requirements with you and provide details as well as access to the electronic portfolio template, but in general you should include student work samples, graphic organizers you designed for a specific activity, assessments and rubrics, and any other examples that show how you met your objectives and enacted the standards in your classes. This can democratize information in classrooms as well as help differentiate instruction, particularly for students with special needs. I X}x7}r.gs!%O[Fs(pe`{|j\}5| `2>8?k(QP&,ho_{jV8G+5J15x>:TXSnd~M50;p3zh+4 xDd # Ft&1. 9 0 obj
In their planning and reflective processes, teachers continue to ask themselves if there are additional available resources, including specific education technologies that can help them more efficiently or effectively meet the needs of their students, particularly in presenting information in multiple ways and providing students multiple ways of finding, working with, and constructing, new knowledge. On the job graduate students in paid positions should work closely with their seminar instructors to prepare and maintain a teaching portfolio. Professional educators are able to evaluate their own and others teaching practices using a variety of assessment tools, including research and theory, in order to improve learning. Make sure you not only familiarize yourself with the schools policy on cell phones, but also exercise professional restraint in checking any messages or email while in the classroom. Successful teachers reflect on their daily lessons and their classroom experiences in order to ensure equity and excellence for all learners. During student teaching, you will enact in the classroom the teaching theories, strategies, endobj
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