Adapted from the «medical residency» model where residents serve under an assisting physician and gain the training required to practice medicine, SFTR residents work under the supervision
of a cooperating teacher while training to become teachers of record for the San Francisco Unified School District.
As a clinical supervisor, I observed student - teachers taken under the
wings of cooperating teachers who inculcated them into the «real world,» a world critiqued regularly...
Maximize the affect you have on the future of the teaching profession by increasing your
understanding of the cooperating teacher role and the skills necessary for directing the student - teaching experience as it unfolds.
Based on data from a post-student teaching survey, we find consistently strong evidence of large effects of being assigned to high versus low index placements, particularly in terms of teacher candidates» perceptions of the quality of
instruction of their cooperating teachers and the quantity and quality of the coaching that they received.
The second instructional technology course was taught during a half - time student teaching experience for participants, in which the preservice teachers were expected to teach 20 hours per week under the
supervision of a cooperating teacher while attending university courses.
The first instructional technology course was taught prior to or simultaneously with the «initial field experience» course, in which preservice teachers completed 90 hours of observation and taught mini-lessons under the supervision
of a cooperating teacher.