Guidelines for Student Teaching Internship - The Citadel

4. MANAGING – The key to good management is planning and organizing for instruction.Teachers with interesting, challenging lessons usually have fewer managementproblems. This integral phase of teaching includes such skills as controlling, arranging,administering, and cooperating.5. EVALUATION – The intern is expected to formulate plans for assessing, evaluating, andcommunicating student progress. The intern should plan, develop, implement, score,and record exams. Other means of evaluating the student progress should be used. Themore data collected on each student, the more accurate the evaluations. In addition, theintern is expected to evaluate his/her own teaching behavior, lessons and effectiveness.C. Classroom Observation during the First DaysCooperating teachers vary greatly in the way in which they handle the student teachinginternship experience. Most will provide opportunities for the student teaching intern togradually become involved in the classroom. This may take the form of allowing the intern tolead small group’s discussions, take the role, teach short sections of the lesson, or take somestudents to the library. These limited responsibilities help the intern fell a part of the team andallow the students to feel that he/she is going to have a direct bearing on the teaching programin that classroom. During this time the student teaching intern can learn the names of thestudents. This should be accomplished very early, at it is important for the student teachingintern to establish rapport with the class and relate to each student individually by name. Thiswill facilitate the conducting of discussions and the maintenance of classroom discipline.During this first stage of this internship, the student teaching intern spends the greatestamount of time in observation. Observation provides the opportunity to make judgments aboutthe nature of the classroom environment and gives time to formulate some ideas aboutinstruction that is to follow. The student teaching intern may reflect on the instructionalstrategies and classroom management strategies that are evident and plan to incorporate thestrategies and classroom management strategies that are evident and plan to incorporate thestrategies into his/her teaching during the internship.The Citadel, School of Education 10