Internship Orientation Seminar

Internship Orientation Seminar Dr. Jay Wilson August, 2011

Agenda • Welcome / Introductions • Internship Overview: • Timeline • Expectations, roles and responsibilities • Supervision/ Documentation • PGPs • Resources - Cohort wiki: http://saskinterns.wikispaces.com/Lunch • PMPP • Preparation • Management (Responsible Learners!) • Professionalism • Personalization • Unit and Lesson Planning • The “Big” 4: Adaptation / Differentiation / Assessment / Inquiry-based education • Wrap up / Homework

Timeline In-service #1 Sept 7 or 16 Plan first unit with Co-op Review PGG process In-service #2 Oct 14 Based on midterm Evaluation Fine-Tuning Unit #2 Now – August 19th Begin Get to know your school and the procedures for internship Homework Ethnography Teaching ½ time Midterm evaluation due October 14 October 17th Begin your Full time teaching 25 Days Draft of final evaluation to me by December 2nd December 20 School is over Winding down teaching

IN-SERVICE DATES & LOCATIONS • Inservice # 1 for teacher candidates and cooperating teachers: September 7 or 16, 9:00am - 3:00 p.m. – Room 2001 College of Ed • Inservice # 2 for teacher candidates only: October 14, 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. – Room 2001 College of Ed • Inservice # 3 (half day): the TC and Co-op decide when to take the half day to work on the midterm assessment. This half day can be spent in the home school.

EXPECTATIONS FOR THE INTERNS • Attendance – arrive early and leave late • Report absences to the college supervisor • Formal Lesson Plans (2 formal plans each day) • 2 Unit Plans • First 3 – 5 lessons for part-time teaching • Second 10 – 15 lessons for full time teaching • Infusion of Aboriginal Content, Knowledge and Ways of Knowing • Regular documentation in the PGP Tables • Regular communication (including the PGP Tables) with cooperating teacher and college supervisor

Intern roles and responsibilities • Co-planning and co-teaching • Preparation of two units --Co-generated Unit and Independently written Unit • Daily lesson plans and other unit plans • Daily pre- and post- conferences and feedback • Some involvement in School and Community Activities

Supervision • My role is to support both you and your co-op • Assess the relationship and determine if you need my help • Learner focused supervision • Coaching, consulting, collaborating, calibrating

My roles • Observe you in your classroom • Provide you with feedback • Help you document and reflect on your experience • Provide you with support when you need it • Formal visits in October and November • Pre and post conferencing • Informal visits /extra curr if I can swing it

Learner focused supervision • I will watch the students not you • Not a performance • Take notes • Use an evaluation sheet • I will share with you what I have observed • You can connect my observations to the PGP • Show achievement • Show need for improvement

Documentation • Data sheets • Lesson plans • Daily planner • PGP

PGP • Most important source of evidence of what you are doing. Crucial for midterm and final evaluations • Do not have to meet them all • Not finished if you have them all • Not checkboxes • Constantly revising, doing multiple entries

PGP • Some you will do regularly others, only once • Shows your growth • Not all evidence comes from the classroom or school setting • Regular journal dated with feedback • Only one PGP goal per lesson

PGP • New and Improved • What really happened in your internship • Invite your cooperating teacher(s) so we can ALL read and add to your PGP goals evidence and reflections periodically • Review new PGP • Local File, Wikispaces, Google.docs

Resources • Group wiki • saskinterns.wikispaces.com • Field Services • Saskatoon public • STF Stewart Resource Centre • First nations information and ideas from Irene, OTC wiki

Lunch

What will make you successful • Preparation • Management • Professionalism • Personalization

Preparation • Key to classroom management • Thoughtful and creative daily lesson plans • Prepare everything you will need to teach • Units • Assessment and evaluation • Materials • Keys/passwords • Administrationy stuff • Your co-op may not need to or is not interested in detailed preparation • You have not earned that right

Mangement • How do you handle your classroom • How do you engage your students • Issues of respect • Earned and given • Developing this skill will take time

Professionalism • Issues of privacy and confidentiality are important • Different than small towns but everyone still knows everyone else • Google yourself because the parents will • Cypbertips handout • Dress • Language • Truly become a member of the staff. Ask questions and get to know what is happening in the school • You are not a student any more

TEACHER PROFESSIONALISM • STF Code of Professional Competencies & Ethics • Dangers • Especially for guys. Power relationship • What you say • Where you look • How you approach people • Everything you do is being interpreted by a very impressionable group

Issues of professionalism • How to deal with problem students • Know the procedure for multiple absences • Contacting parents • Working with EA or TA • Look for potential dangers • Never be alone with the students • Who is named in the suit?

Personalization • Get to know your students • Cannot teach them or plan without knowing them • Use the first ten days or so to get an idea about who you are working with then plan your first unit.

Lesson and Unit Planning • Lesson planning • Lesson Plan template (Wiki) • Unit planning • Unit Plan template (Wiki) • Co-generated unit process Inception Planning Teaching

Lesson and Unit Planning • Most important part of teaching • Research shows that it is what you will struggle with the most. • General planning/Specific planning • Weekend update

The “Big 4” of planning • Adaptation • Related to content, instruction, environment • Differentiation • Related to individual students • Assessment • Assessment of learning, assessment for learning • Inquiry-based education

Teaching skills checklist • What makes a teacher good ? • Observe the teaching going on around you. • Review checklist on wiki

Think about it • Internship will be the most difficult task you have ever undertaken • You will all have weaknesses • How you respond to them is what is important • Up to you to be the best for every student you come into contact with • Bottom line is how is student learning is impacted by what you do. • A long job interview. You have four months to impress your coop and your principal

Wrap up and homework • Questions, issues or concerns • Homework: “Big Ideas” in Education • Ethnography of school/community • “Big Ideas” in education: • Adaptive dimension • Differentiated instruction • Content areas and teaching strategies • Resources and resource-based learning • First Nations content • Cultural diversity • Teacher and student support services • Communicating and reporting to parents • Record keeping • Division or school major initiatives

First In-service • Planning of your first unit (3 – 5 lessons) • Bring a laptop if possible • Bring PGP Goal Tables examples of evidence/indicators • Interns should be prepared to teach their cooperating teacher about the PGP goals and sub-goals and how to use the goal tables.

Feedback cards • Most useful part of today • A question you still have.

Internship Orientation Seminar