Student Teaching Information Meeting for Initial Teacher Certification Candidates

1. Welcome, SAU SP 2016 & FA 2016 Student Teachers! Student Teaching Information Meeting for Initial Teacher Certification Candidates

2. Who’s Who to Know for Your Student Teaching? • Dale Linton, Director of Student Teaching • Rashell Johnson, Teacher Education Certification Officer • John Williams, International Schools Student Teacher Placement Director • Patti Johnston, Student Advisor • Megan Lindley, Student Teacher records

3. Purposes for today’s meeting: To provide an overview of the student teaching approval process, expectations, and experience. (What’s Your Story?)

4. Student Teaching is About: • You performing teaching tasks and providing evidence for MDE initial teacher certification recommendation. • You demonstrating levels of professionalism associated with the teaching profession, plan and deliver effective instruction. • You appropriately interact with and engage students in meaningful learning.

5. Questions to Consider: Are you confident that: • You know how to professionally interact within a school environment? • You possess adequate and correct understanding of the content knowledge to be taught? • You know how to appropriately structure instruction in multiple ways for a variety of learners? • You are comfortable asserting yourself as the teacher-authority and effectively managing student behavior? • You know how to multi-task and manage classroom time in a manner that maximizes student learning?

6. Questions to Consider: Are you confident that: • You know how to determine and implement the best methods of assessment appropriate for the intended learning and performance skills required of students? • You can manage your time in and out of the classroom to stay on top of all student teaching related duties and assignments? • You can dedicate all of your consuming efforts and time to your successful completion of student teaching? • That in your heart of hearts, you are 110% certain that you want to be a teacher? That in your heart of hearts, you are 110% certain that you want to be a teacher? (Make sure you are not trying to please someone else’s plan for your life or that you view becoming a teacher as an “option” for something to do with your degree.)

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10. What Student Teaching Looks Like http://sites.arbor.edu/soe/student-teacher-seminar-orientation-placement-overview/

11. Our Commitment: Your Success! • Student Teacher Application & Interview: http://sites.arbor.edu/soe/student-teaching-application/ • Student Teaching Overview & Seminar: http://sites.arbor.edu/soe/student-teacher-seminar-orientation-placement-overview/ • Mentoring Teacher Website: http://sites.arbor.edu/soe/mentoring-a-spring-arbor-university-student-teacher/ • University Supervisor Website: http://sites.arbor.edu/soe/university-supervisors/ • Optional F2F Seminar Work Days/Interview Practice • Supporting New Teachers – EDU 510 • SOE Promise: http://www.arbor.edu/academics/school-of-education/school-of-education-promise/

12. Our Commitment: Your Success! Our Commitment is: • About Your Success! • Making you the Candidate of Choice in a Job Interview! • Support your vision • Support your abilities • Support your proficiencies • Prepare you for employment • Support you as a new teacher We Want You To Become Employed As A Teacher!

13. Securing a Student Teaching Placement is Difficult Because… Teachers are evaluated on Performance & Merit • They are hesitant to commit to an unknown student teacher because they may prove to be problematic. Schools are under mandates to show improvements in student learning • Student teachers take time away from work the school is involved in. • Schools limit the number of student teachers they will accept. • Principals have very high expectations for student teachers and low tolerance for underperforming student teachers

14. However…They haven't met You! Teachers and Principals want to see that you are: • Dependable – you can be counted on • Diligent – act and get things done well • Proactive – act well in advance of due dates • Professional – work is free of errors, you dress, talk, look, act like a teacher. • Knowledgeable – you know your content areas • Skilled & Experienced– you prove your ability to engage with students and demonstrate how to apply diverse instructional practices and assessment strategies, and classroom management. • Student & Result Oriented – teaching is about students’ learning. - Guest Teacher – you know your place…as a guest and learner.

15. Successful Student Teacher Strengths • Energetic: STRENGTH • Stamina: STRENGTH • Pragmatic: STRENGTH • Flexible: STRENGTH • Multitask Oriented: STRENGTH • Student Focused: STRENGTH • Trainable/Learner: STRENGTH • Seek/Apply Feedback: STRENGTH • Skilled & Knowledgeable: STRENGTH • Team Players: STRENGTH • Realistic: STRENGTH The Best Student Teachers Demonstrate These Strengths Each Day, Every Day, All the Time!

16. Things That Can and Do Go Wrong • Lack of preparedness & experience • Lack of realistic self-perception • Want to be “liked”; Don’t want to be perceived as “mean” • Introverted/Lack teacher presence & voice • Outside expectations and interference • Family expectations and demands • Significant other’s interference - engagement

17. Qualifications for Student Teaching • Admitted to SOE • Completion of 120 Field Experience Hours • Satisfactory completion of all program course work (no grades below C). • Have addressed all negative dispositions satisfactorily. • GPA • 2.7 Cum. • 2.7 Major and/or Minor Areas • Pass MTTC • Elementary : Elementary MTTC • Secondary: Content area (Major) MTTC • Recommended by Student Development & Program Departments

18. The Student Teacher Interview Applications Due – at the time of your interview http://sites.arbor.edu/soe/stapp/ The Application • Application, page 1 • Memo of Understanding (Professional Mentor Guest Form) • Major/Minor Course Listing (Include transfer courses) • Education Course Listing • Autobiography (follow instructions – 2 pages max.) • Resume • Criminal History Background Information Report (Sub Teacher) • Professional Organization/Liability Insurance Waiver Form

19. The Student Teacher Interview The 7 B’s • Be Proactive – Review Podcast and webpage information re: interview: http://sites.arbor.edu/soe/student-teaching-application/ • Be On-Time – Come Early • Be Prepared – Bring Your Completed Application • Be Professional – Dress to Impress • Be Specific – Know Your Needs/Express Your Desires (Petitions: Work, Coach, Take a class after ST?) • Be Aware – MDE regulations & SOE policy determine many things regarding your placement • Be Flexible – “It doesn’t really matter where you student teach as long as you have the opportunity to do so and are successful.”

20. Options for student teaching • Who Do You Know? • What Schools Have You Spent Time in? • What Teachers & Principals Have you Developed Relationships With? • Are there SOE Supervisors in the area?

21. Where You WILL student teach. • Have a Backup Plan • Be Flexible • Accept What Becomes Available Can approved supervision be provided? Depends on whether a school responds to the inquiry.. Depends on whether there are teachers willing to take on a student teacher. Depends on whether a school provides the right combination of grade/subject level and teacher certification required. Depends on whether the placement is a good fit for the student teacher.

22. When WILL YOU student teach? Student Teaching Can be Delayed

23. Student Teacher Restrictions “There is no such thing as a perfect student teaching placement. What there is however, is an opportunity for you to show that you possess the knowledge and skills to be recommended for teacher certification.” • Placements are requested by SOE – School Administrators determine the placement. - What schools have or have not had a recent student teacher? • What teachers are best suited for certain student teachers (principal determination)? • What type of experience is BEST for the student teacher’s GROWTH and future employment? • Mentoring teacher must be experienced (5 years +) and approved by building administrator or school district to have a student teacher

24. Student Teacher Restrictions • You must student teach with a teacher holding the same certificate/endorsement you are pursuing and in specific classrooms. • Elementary: K-5 (6) ALL SUBJECTS w/Elementary certified teacher • Endorsement subject area student teaching is done at grades 6-8 • TESOL endorsement work is done in elementary setting • ECE – Student teaching restricted to K – Grade 3 • Secondary: 6-12 w/Teacher holding teaching certificate or endorsement for the secondary grade subject areas you are pursuing • Must student teach 50% > in major area • History and some sciences must be taught at HS level; not MS level • TESOL placements must have ELL student in the grade level classroom • Special Education: K-12 w/Teacher holding LD endorsement (SM) & in appropriate SED setting w/LD students • Early Childhood: Birth to pre-K w/Elementary certified teacher holding an ECE endorsement (ZA, ZS)

25. The Placement Process My Job • I contact the school and gain their interest in you Your Job • You set up an interview (within 2 weeks) and report back to me about the interview My Job • I finalize the placement; establish supervisor(s) Your Job • You spend time in the teacher’s classroom DO NOT MAKE CHANGES in your placement! Communicate any changes regarding your placement immediately.

26. The Placement Process @ Distance Out of State/Canada • Meet with me 1 year in advance. • Make inquiries with school/schools (Your Job) • Have back up plans (close to SAU supervisor) Overseas • Work with Professor John Williams 2 years in advance. • Complete CCTECC application, SAU CCS program requirements, attend weekend training. • Have back up plans (local to SAU)

27. Getting Ready: Next Steps • Complete pre-student teaching checklist (main campus only) • Review the Student Teaching Handbook (http://sites.arbor.edu/soe/stapp/) • Prepare for your Professional Future • Get into Schools and Classrooms Regularly • Build Relationships with Teachers and Principals • Substitute teaching • Develop your Teacher Persona and Management Skills • Spend time with kids • Tutor, Camp Counselor, VBS, Volunteer, Leadership • Talk to me. Your friends probably heard wrong! 

28. Tentative Dates - Spring 2016 Student Teaching Weather Related Cancelations MAY require the extension of Student Teaching Placement Dates BeginEnd_________ • 15 week placements 02/01/1605/20/16 (Elementary or Secondary only) • 10/12 + 8 week placement 01/04/1603/25/16 (Elementary – 10/12 weeks) 03/28/1605/27/16 (ECE - 8 weeks)  • 10/12 + 10 week placement 01/04/1603/25/16 (Elementary – 10/12 weeks) 03/14/1606/03/16 or 06/10/16 (Special Ed - 10 weeks)  Starting and ending dates are tentative and subject to change per school calendars, the SAU Registrar and student financial requirements, and weather cancelations

29. Tentative Dates - Fall 2016 Student Teaching Weather Related Cancelations MAY require the extension of Student Teaching Placement Dates BeginEnd_________ • 15 week placements 09/06/1612/16/16 (Elementary or Secondary only) • 10/12 + 8 week placement 09/08/1611/23/16 (Elementary – 10/12 weeks) 11/28/1602/03/17 (ECE- 8 weeks)  • 10/12 + 10 week placement 09/08/16 11/23/16 (Elementary – 10/12 weeks) 11/28/16 02/17/17 (Special Ed - 10 weeks)  Starting and ending dates are tentative and subject to change per school calendars, the SAU Registrar and student financial requirements, and weather cancelations

30. Mebele - FORWARD!!!!!!!! • FROM THIS POINT ON: • Everything you do is an opportunity to demonstrate that you are ready and capable to be an excellent student teaching candidate. • Make Yourself Available – Do whatever is necessary to be present for meetings or interviews. • Plan Strategically for your Future Employment – What are you lacking to impress an interview team? • Start working on your student teaching application. Dale Linton, Placement Director: 517-750-6413 dale.linton@arbor.edu