Guidelines for Student Teaching Internship - The Citadel

A. OverviewTHE FRAMEWORK FOR THE STUDENT TEACHING INTERNSHIPThe student teaching intern, the cooperating teacher, the college supervisor, and theschool administrator have specific roles and responsibilities to ensure that pupils in the publicschool classroom experience a positive and productive atmosphere. The student teachinginternship is designed to create a new professional educator who has experienced fully the roleof the public school teacher for a short period of time. Although not every possible situationwill occur during the teaching internship, the following basic assumptions are made:1. The student teaching intern and cooperating teacher form a team responsible fororganizing, planning, instructing, managing, evaluating, and reporting pupil learning.The team offers two contributors to the teaching-learning process.2. The cooperating teacher is asked to serve as mentor, coach, co-planner, and evaluatorfor the intern. This calls for the establishment and maintenance of a high-qualityprofessional relationship.3. The student teaching intern adapts to the cooperating teacher’s style of teaching andmanagement in the classroom. The changes that take place over the semester are asgradual as possible. There must not be interruption of the learning environment thathas been established.4. The secondary cooperating teacher continues for the first two or three weeks as leadteacher with the intern observing and acting as a teacher assistant. The studentteaching intern for the first two or three weeks are encouraged to follow the―Recommended Semester Calendar‖ described in detail at the end of this section.5. Physical Education interns have a placement in an elementary school and in a middle orhigh school. Each placement is for a minimum of 30 days. At each placement thestudent teaching intern will observe up to one week and then begin to assume allteaching. The final week, the student teaching intern decreases teaching responsibilitiesand complete observations.B. Five Keys to Teaching1. PLANNING – Using the ADEPT system, the teaching intern is expected to submit (a)long-range plan to college supervisor by the date specified in the course calendar and(b) weekly instructional plans to the cooperating teacher no later than Wednesday priorto the instructional week. The cooperating teacher will review the plans and return themto the intern by the Friday prior to the instructional week.2. ORGANIZING – All materials to be utilized in instruction are to be available on the sameschedule.3. INSTRUCTING – The intern is expected to demonstrate a variety of methods andstrategies throughout the assignment: questioning, discussing, lecturing, tutoring,teaming and involving. The display of student work on a bulletin board or by othermeans is highly recommended. Coordinate these plans with the cooperating teacher.The Citadel, School of Education 9