Early Years Teacher

Establish and maintain positive relationships between the cooperating teacher, the school and the University and its teacher education programs.

2. Help student teachers, cooperating teachers, and other school personnel understand the expectations of the student teaching experience.

3. Facilitate the candidate’s implementation of skills and strategies needed to begin his/her participation in the classroom.

4. Make regularly scheduled observation visits during the student teaching placement. More observation visits may be requested if necessary.

5. Assist in the professional growth and development of the teacher candidate’s knowledge, skills and dispositions.

6. University supervisors must observe a teacher candidate at least four times in the student teaching period; however, University supervisors will visit more frequently if necessary.

7. After each observation, the University supervisor will confer with the teacher candidate and give a written report of the observation to the teacher candidate, the cooperating teacher and submit to the program office.

8. Communicate with the cooperating teacher about the teacher candidate’s progress at each observation.

9. Be candid with the teacher candidate and cooperating teacher about the candidate’s progress.

10. Assist the cooperating teacher in dealing with problems he/she may be experiencing.

11. Assist the teacher candidate in dealing with problems he/she may be experiencing.