Welcome to Secondary Education Internship!!!

1. Welcome to Secondary Education Internship!!! Your Coordinators: Mrs. Fasse and Ms. Parsons

2. Today’s Agenda • Placement Folders • Meet your coordinators Intro • Student Internship PowerPoint • Go over the calendar • Go over forms • Grading Procedures • Website

3. Basic Functions of a Student Intern These are simple suggestions for you to get involved in your new classroom as an education intern! Don’t forget to constantly communicate with your cooperating teacher!

4. 1. Working with students • You can identify a student or group of students that need attention or extra assistance regularly • You can and SHOULD help a student with work, but should NEVER do the work for the student • Be in charge of a small group during small group time and run a mini lesson

5. Work together – co-teaching has worked well in the past Learn from experience. Accept positive feedback and constructive criticism- your teacher wants to help! Teaching a small group may be less intimidating for you (especially when you teach for the first time) As an intern, you are expected to teach a lesson at least one time per quarter. (Especially for your quarter projects!) 2. Teaching OpportunitiesYou should have the opportunity to teach to the extent that both you and your cooperating teacher feel comfortable.

6. 3. Assisting a class with multiple special needs students • You should roam around the room and assist with reading, hands-on tasks, and basic organization for those students

7. 4. Assisting the teacher • Clerical work assistance • Setting up for labs or projects • Creating bulletin boards • Organizing areas of the room • Planning mini activities • Sharing your creative ideas

8. Do’s for your Intern Experience • Stay busy at all times! • Work with your cooperating teacher to develop appropriate goals for each quarter • Help your cooperating teacher keep his or her room organized • NOTE: Some clerical work is necessary, but realize that you are learning the most when they are directly working with the students inside the classroom.

9. Ideas for Getting Involved • Get creative! Create folders for students who are absent –you can be in charge of getting absent students caught up. • Recognize a “Student of the Month” for the class. Maybe you can write a letter home, put up a display, etc. • Go over homework with your students or run a review game

10. Are there times when you can’t think of anything to do??? • Take notes on the lesson, presentation or video as the teacher is presenting • Observe another teacher in the school building (A different grade, the special education resource room, etc.) *** Make sure you have permission first!*** • Research a topic of your cooperating teacher’s choice they will be covering—YOU NEED TO BE KNOWEDGEABLE ABOUT THE TOPICS IN YOUR CLASS • Prepare for a future lesson you may be teaching • Update worksheets and/or activities for your cooperating teacher! • Work with your cooperating teacher to utilize and bring technology into the classroom • Spruce up the classroom—look around and take initiative!!

11. What is initiative??? in·i·ti·a·tive • [ih-nish-uh-tiv] 1.an introductory act or step;leading action: totake the initiative in makingfriends. 2. readiness and ability in initiatingaction; enterprise: to lack initiative. 3. one's personal,responsible decision: to acton one's own initiative.

12. Questions ???? Please contact us! (847)755-2736 Efasse@d211.org– FHS Periods 3,4,7,8 Cparsons@d211.org – FHS Periods 1,2,5,6 Teachers who’ve had interns in the past can be a great resource and give you many good ideas!