Student Teacher Handbook Download - University of the Cumberlands

Task A-1Teaching and Learning ContextContext is a snapshot of where your students are academically and why.Building a respectful relationship with your students is vitally important to their success andyours.Completing seating charts the first week helps you start to get to know your students.Context is why you can rarely, if ever, teach a lesson the same way twice. You will never havethe same mix of students in any classroom.Kentucky Intern teachers learn to complete the Task A-1- Teaching and Learning Context form,which helps to focus on the context BEFORE starting to plan instruction. You CANNOT planinstruction before you complete Task A-1- Teaching and Learning Context.Teaching and Learning Context - Task A-1 will need to be completed once per placement. If theteaching environment changes significantly, e.g. new school, change in classroom placementconfiguration, change in grade or courses taught, this form MUST be completed AGAIN.DIRECTIONSGo to www.kyepsb.net/internships/ktiptpatemplates.asp. Print out Task A-1 Teaching andLearning Context in Word version.The top of the form is where you identify yourself and put the date that you fill out the form.Include the number of students in the class, the grade level, and their age. I recommend that youput in the title, which class it is that you are identifying.Undergraduate Student Teacher/Practicum Handbook Page 11