1. Co-Op Teacher ~ Intern Training
MSUNER
Co-Op Teacher ~ Intern Training

2. Co-Teaching Model Guidelines
Two teachers share the responsibilities of planning, delivering instruction, and assessing skills.
Models of Co-Teaching
One Teach, One Assist
Supplemental Teaching
Parallel Teaching
Team Teaching
Station Teaching
Alternative/Differentiated Teaching
-Importance of co-teaching in all student teaching situations
-You do not relinquish your responsibilities of your classroom, you work together as a team
- These are the models that can be used in your classroom- handout

3. Co-Teaching in Action
Here is a short video highlighting the various co-teaching strategies

4. Collaboration in Co-Teaching
Co-plan
Co-instruct
Plan unit/lesson expectations and materials
Actively engage in instruction
Determine student groups
Share responsibility for all students
Determine co-teaching arrangements
Vary instructional arrangements
Blend expertise
Co-Manage: climate and discipline, Teach and reinforce positive behavior
Co-Assess: collect student data to inform, review, reflect, and analyze
Handout - Planning tips (distribute now)
Co-planning and communication is crucial for the co-teaching dynamic to work
Have your teacher intern sit in on PLC and planning time- each lesson should involve some sort of co-teaching strategy

5. Co-Teaching Hand Activity
(Handout) At your table discuss how you will address each with your teacher intern
(Ex: Take risks and grow: try something new in your classroom that you would not ordinarily do without help (station teaching, painting)
(Ex: Establish rapport: Give your teacher intern a “desk” have their name on the door..etc
What are your working styles and learning styles and how can you blend them

6. Provide Specific Feedback
Informal Feedback
Weekly Sacred Time
Provide Specific Feedback
based on notes from day
Think Aloud
Transparency
(Handout) Sacred Time - a time when no-one else comes in and you can review planning, questions, expectations, next steps
Meeting each week (informal)
Notes: What’s going well and areas for improvement be specific-
What to focus on next time
Specific Feedback (ie. Turn and Talk, model, ask higher-level questions, classroom management)

7. What does effective feedback look like?
Specific, meaningful feedback is:
Goal-oriented
Transparent
Actionable
User-friendly
Timely
Ongoing
Consistent
Goal-oriented - Feedback is only meaningful if recipients have a clear goal and a tangible plan of action to achieve it.
Transparent - Feedback is clear. Use a rubric or otherwise clearly state what is expected. Check for understanding.
Actionable - Feedback such as, “That was good” or, “That needs work” is not actionable. Consider whether your feedback provides interns with clear next steps for improvement.
User-friendly - Avoid feedback that is overly technical, explicit, or not at the intern’s experience level. Feedback cannot be meaningful if it is overwhelming.
Timely- Provide feedback when a lesson is still fresh in the intern’s mind.
Ongoing- Providing frequent and ongoing feedback provides greater opportunities for small readjustments and continuous growth.
Consistent - For feedback to be meaningful, it can’t be contradictory. This is especially important considering that student interns are being evaluated by multiple people.

8. Preconference Observation Post Conference
Formal Feedback
Preconference
Observation
Post Conference
NOTES
Preconference - Two days or more prior to formal observation
Observation - Using the MSU observation protocol, ensuring consistency between objective and lesson, identifying assessment procedures
Follow university rubrics when evaluating teacher intern (rubrics are included in Cooperating Teacher packet)
Post conference- Discuss positives and discuss points for growth
*Make sure teacher intern in familiar with rubric
Post Conference - “Glow and Grow,” be specific with goals and how to meet them, eliciting questions and feedback from student intern-make sure that they reflect on their teaching
Handout-Mentoring through questioning

9. Fishbowl Activity Formal Feedback Work in small groups
Present Case Studies (Handout) - Student teacher is struggling with self-confidence and students don’t respect her…. (There are 6 scenarios)
Have one person respond
Everyone else adds their contributions of ideas

10. MSU Expectations Clinical I
2 days per week with a minimum of 175 hours
Internship begins on the first day for teachers
Refer to notes in “Teacher-Intern Packet”
Teacher interns begin when cooperating teacher begins, this could mean setting up the class, attending staff meetings, etc.
include them from day one so that there is a sense of shared responsibility.
Expose teacher intern to various teaching styles during this time and have them reflect on what they have observed in each class

11. MSU Expectations Clinical I 2 lessons A bulletin board
For clinical 1 they will be required to plan and teach 2 lessons and plan and put up one bulletin board.
For the two lessons:
Preconference - Two days or more prior to formal observation
Observation - Using the MSU observation protocol, ensuring consistency between objective and lesson, identifying assessment procedures
Follow university rubrics when evaluating teacher intern (rubrics are included in Cooperating Teacher packet)
Post conference- Discuss positives and discuss points for growth
Post Conference - “Glow and Grow,” be specific with goals and how to meet them, eliciting questions and feedback from student intern

12. MSU Expectations Clinical I Observations in other classrooms
Begin to incorporate co-teaching model
Co-operating teacher must register on-line and complete 1 observation rubric at the end of the semester
EdTPA expectations
Teacher interns will also be required to do observations in other classrooms such as special teachers etc (speech, resource, gifted & talented, etc.)
The co-teaching models can be referred to on your hand-out.

13. MSU Expectations Clinical II
Internship begins on the first day for teachers
Same hours and expectations as the cooperating teacher
MSU Lesson plan for observations
District lesson plans for all other lessons
No more than 3 absences ~ must report absence to Center of Pedagogy and cooperating teacher ASAP
Teacher intern begins first day of school (Ex: Jan. 2 or Aug.27th)
They will use MSU format for formal observations and district format when planning with cooperating teacher:
Preconference - Two days or more prior to formal observation
Observation - Using the MSU observation protocol, ensuring consistency between objective and lesson, identifying assessment procedures
Follow university rubrics when evaluating teacher intern (rubrics are included in Cooperating Teacher packet)
Post conference- Discuss positives and discuss points for growth

14. MSU Expectations Clinical II
Co-operating teacher must register on-line and complete 3 observation rubrics and a Summarized Record of Student Teaching
Use a variety of co-teaching strategies
Student interns may not be left alone and cannot be used as a substitute during internship
EdTPA expectations

15. What is edTPA? National Subject-specific Portfolio-based assessment
of teaching performance that is completed by student teachers to demonstrate their readiness for a full-time classroom teaching assignment
Passing is required for licensure.
edTPA - Teacher Performance Assessment
3 - 5 ELA consecutive lessons. (There’s a separate component for math.)
The student is responsible for video-taping these lessons and then editing them.
There is an edTPA handbook. We cannot be too specific here as the requirements are different according to grade levels and we do not want to give misinformation.
Cooperating teachers are not allowed to give feedback. C.T.s can ask probing questions, ie: Have you considered using Bloom’s questioning. Do you have all your materials together?

16. What does edTPA mean in the classroom?
Student must video tape 3-5 consecutive lessons based on one central focus
Must obtain permission slips from parents/guardian
Editing or critiquing of lesson or video by the cooperating teacher is strictly prohibited.
Students who do not get permission can not be videotaped.

18. EdTPA Expectations
See the attached link below and the MSUNER EdTPA powerpoint provided.
EdTPA PowerPoint

19. Things to Remember… Give one/Get one Difficult situations
Welcoming teacher intern
Procedures/protocol
Communication
Classroom Management
Handout - A Grid with 9 boxes
Have everyone count off - for example, #1 will give a difficult situation and get a solution to a difficult situation. Try to find someone from each number.

20. Click on the folder for copies of all training handouts.
Shared Folder
Click on the folder for copies of all training handouts.