Secondary Education &
Youth Services (SEYS)
I. Background Information
Permission
for student teaching is given to those students who have been approved by their
Major Department for scholarship in subject matter and by the Education
Department for work in the professional sequence, and who have a satisfactory
medical and tuberculin test.
Since the Teacher Education Program at
II. College Regulations
Students are required to
spend 4 hours (approximately 6 periods) a day in an assigned school every
school day for a minimum of fifteen weeks.
(See “Minimum Hours Required” for detailed definition of “hours.”)
In
NYC schools students must teach both a 9th grade class and an
upper grade class. [Exception: If a
particular Science is not offered on both grade levels (i.e. Chemistry may not
be offered in MS or 9th grade) then Science students can teach two
classes on one grade level.]
Students
assigned and accepted by Long Island Districts may follow this same (9th/upper
grade) model OR may follow the typical Long Island District model of ½
semester in a middle school and ½ semester in the high school (still 6 periods
a day).
The
K-12 subject areas (Art, Music, Family & Consumer Science, and Physical
Education) are included in the above
requirements but these placements must be fulfilled in the following two grade
levels: Pre-K through 6, and 7 through 12.
Holidays/Absences: The student teacher has the same responsibilities
for reporting and attending as does any employed teacher. With
regard to holidays, students are to follow the calendar of the public school
where they are assigned. The only
excused absences are for illness and when this occurs, the student is required
to notify both the cooperating teacher and college supervisor. All absences must be made up prior to the
final transition week of the experience.
Minimum Hours Required: The
student's total preparation must include at least 160 hours of supervised
instructional experience (80 hrs. on each grade level). Please note that for the purposes of State
Certification, school clock hours may not be calculated by school periods,
unless those periods extend for 1 hour. Accordingly, since most secondary
schools maintain periods ranging from 37-45 minutes, every 3 periods for
which you are in attendance and actively participating in an approved activity,
will be considered as 2.5 hours toward the required hours.
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Each
student is to be assigned a teacher, designated as the "Cooperating
Teacher," who will take responsibility for the student teacher's
day-to-day supervision. The student will
teach two classes each day, observe the Cooperating Teacher teaching another
class, and spend time conferencing, planning and other activities related to
teaching.
This
supervised instructional experience is to include such activities as:
1) Actual classroom teaching with follow-up
conferences
2) Working with groups of students under the
teacher’s direction
3) Working with extracurricular programs
4) Working with homeroom activities
Supervision
of student teacher is the mutual responsibility of the Cooperating Teacher and
the College Supervisor. The College Supervisor will do a minimum of three
formal observations, observing each student in both the 9th grade
class (or middle school) and in the upper grade (10th, 11th,
or 12th grade) class. The
College Supervisor will confer with the Cooperating Teacher to discuss the
student’s progress and will be available for additional conferences if special
problems develop.
V. Role of Cooperating Teacher
A
Cooperating Teacher is a reflective practitioner who can provide day-to-day
mentoring to a student teacher helping him/her to put theory into practice and
to reflect upon their performance. The College Supervisor supports that role by
helping the student gain insight into teaching concerns of a broader nature
than those of a particular school. The College Supervisor’s and Cooperating
Teacher’s comments and evaluations may, therefore, emphasize differing phases
of preparation for teaching.
The SEYS Department,
Consistent with this accreditation process, the Cooperating Teacher and
the College Supervisor complete evaluation forms as a record of the student's
progress during the semester. These forms will serve both as statistical
support for accreditation and as a worksheet from which the final evaluation is
made. Although every College Supervisor is responsible for consultation with
the Cooperating Teacher in arriving at final evaluation for the student
teacher, college regulations stipulate the College Supervisor is responsible
for making the final determination.
The
Cooperating Teacher with major responsibility for supervising a student teacher
will be issued a waiver of tuition for one 3-credit course at any CUNY
school. The tuition waiver may be used
within the subsequent three academic sessions (including the Summer session)
and only by the person to whom it is issued (CUNY policy).
If
a student is assigned to two distinct Cooperating Teachers on two different
grade levels, each Cooperating Teacher is entitled to a waiver. If the student is assigned to the same
Cooperating Teacher at two different grade levels, that Cooperating Teacher is
entitled to a waiver for each grade level supervised.
September 2007