Student Teacher

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Student Teacher Cooperating Teacher What if
there is a Mismatch?Marjorie Economopoulos

• NCTM 81st Annual Meeting
• April 11, 2003
• San Antonio, Texas

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Overview

• Placement procedures
• Varieties of mismatches
• Beliefs and dispositions
• Out of sync scenarios
• When it can and cant work
• Planning placements
• General discussion

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ST Placement Process
Student
Teacher
Department
Principal
Sch System
FE office
Match ST CT
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Systems want STs

• Goals place with teachers of similar beliefs,
  dispositions
• Constraints Shortages, busy, over-used
• Philosophical differences systems, schools,
  individual teachers

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Mismatches come in several varieties

• Telling

• Discovering

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Mismatches come in several varieties

• Procedures
• algorithms

• Conceptual
• understandings

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Mismatches come in several varieties

• Rows columns

• Table groups

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Mismatches come in several varieties

• Pencil paper

• Technology

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Mismatches come in several varieties

• Worksheets practice

• Problem solving

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Belief Systems Dispositions
C Teacher
Univ Supervisor
Student Teacher
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When Student Teacher is out of sync

• Student teaching requirements
• Increase frequency of observations
• Make specific demands
• Grade depends on cooperation
• Voluntary withdrawal
• Involuntary removal
• Official forms procedures

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ST Reasons for Concern
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ST Remediation Report
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When UniversitySupervisor is out of sync

• Send other university people to observe student
  teacher
• Increase supervision training
• Recommend not using again
• Assign new supervisor

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When Cooperating Teacher is out of sync

• Conference with teacher
• Additional support for ST
• Lesson plans
• Active ideas
• Encourage CT to let ST try ideas
• Cooperative learning
• Hands-on
• Problem solving

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Pressures on Cooperating Teachers

• High stakes testing
• Mandates from schools/systems
• Curriculum requirements
• Time constraints
• for resources
• Fear

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When it can work

• CT and Univ supervisor can discuss
• CT wants to support ST
• CT wants to learn new ideas
• CT lets ST try different strategies

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When it cant work

• CT refuses to adjust
• CT does not support ST
• CT refuses to let ST try stuff
• Grin bear it (depends on timing)
• Remove ST from situation (to another school)
• Dont use CT in future

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Planning Placements

• Knowns
• Partner schools
• Prior teacher
• Relationships

• Unknowns
• New schools
• New teachers
• Share the wealth (prize/award)
• ST requests (geography)

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What Else?Ideas from the Group
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Thank YouMarjorie Economopoulos

• meconomo_at_kennesaw.edu
• http//pigseye.kennesaw.edu/meconomo