Second Placement (Elementary)

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 until spring break)---Candidates will join you in your classroom, all day Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays until 1pm (roughly 21 hours per week).

For spring term (after Spring Break until Friday, June 12th) : Candidates will join you in your classroom all day Monday-Friday (40 hrs / wk) and will be following your 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 (many TCs will do 5 to 6 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.

Policy for Teacher Candidate 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 at all 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 have a bank of excused absences to draw from for sick leave, emergency leave, or job search leave. These days are not for personal leave. TCs must log all absences and a short reason on the Monthly Log of Hours Calendar (ex: illness, job fair, job interview, family emergency, etc). This leave should not exceed 5 days during the first placement.

Inclement Weather Policy

This is what we have shared with students regarding district closures and delays:

During your placement, there may be times that the school district that you are teaching in is closed for inclement weather. On these days, you will not report to school. If your school is on a two-hour delay, please ask your Cooperating Teacher what time to report to school (often two hours later than normal, but not always). Please record a snow day/ school closure on your log of hours. These hours are not counted as part of your excused absences, as the closure is out of your control.

If you live in an area where the schools are closed due to weather, but you teach in a district where schools are open, you will not report to your school. The closure in your residing school district determines that it is not safe to drive. In this case, please reach out to your CT (Cooperating Teacher) and US (University Supervisor), and record a snow day/ school closure on your log of hours. These hours are not counted as part of your excused absences, as it is out of your control. If your residing school district is on a two-hour delay, please arrive when it is safe (likely two hours later) and reach out to your CT on what time you will to report to school.

The most important thing you can do is to maintain great communication with your CT and US. Giving them as much notice as possible will help them support you!

Observations and Evaluation

Winter Term

Second placement is part-time: Monday and Tuesdays, full days, and Wednesday until 1pm.)

January

Anytime in January: University Supervisor will have a Meet and Greet with Cooperating Teacher/Teacher Candidate to begin the second placement (no informal observation)

February

Anytime in February: Joint Formal Observation with Cooperating Teacher and University Supervisor. SLL upload named E3_CT_Observation_2 and F3_US_Observation_2

March

Anytime in March:
- Mock Interviews for the Teacher Candidate with the University Supervisor to be completed before break.
- Formal Observation with University Supervisor. SLL upload named F4_US_Observation_3
- Formal Observation with Cooperating Teacher. SLL upload named E4_CT_Observation_3
End of Winter Term: Cooperating Teacher completes and discusses the Disposition Rubric with Teacher Candidate. SLL upload named E8_CT_Dispositions_2
Spring Break

Spring Term

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. Set dates.
Anytime in April:
- Formal Observation with University Supervisor with SLL upload named F5_US_Observation_4
- Formal Observation with Cooperating Teacher with SLL upload named E5_CT_Observation_4

May

Anytime in May:
- Formal Observation with University Supervisor with SLL upload named F6_US_Observation_5
- Formal Observation with Cooperating Teacher with SLL upload named E6_CT_Observation_5
May 18-22: MAT Oral Exams (MAT students only)
Late May: Team Meeting to end out second placement with Cooperating Teacher, University Supervisor, and Teacher Candidate with SLL uploads named E9_CT_Dispositions_3 and F8_US_Team_Evaluation_2

June

June 2: Teacher Appreciation Dinner with Cooperating Teachers, University Supervisors, and Teacher Candidates!
June 12: End of placement