Student Teaching 2011

Welcome to Student Teaching 2011!! Hasn't the time passed quickly? Please forgive me, Patrick, for not posting your picture as well. I seem to have stored it on my home computer rather than here at school. Make sure I take one of all of you at our January 6th meeting!

Please say hello, give us some sort of post semester update and post a picture with your sign in name before the first day of student teaching. You'll be required to post at least once a week starting on January 3rd. I'll be posting a weekly topic, but I want to hear from you as often as you want to write.

Teacher appreciation week

Harry and Rosemary Wong always put it so beautifully! Enjoy the article below.

http://teachers.net/gazette/MAY02/wong2.html


Congratulations, all, on a semester well done!!

Certification Information

Please note that this is for secondary certification only. You need to apply directly to ADE for your CTE-FACS certification. You are applying for a CTE provisional certificate.
http://www.ade.state.az.us/certification/

Week 13:Open comment

Congratulations!!! You have reached week thirteen. What's on your mind? Dont forget to check your emails for the survey. Also the career fair is April 21st.

Week 12: Using Peer Tutors

Check out the link and answer the following questions:
http://cecp.air.org/familybriefs/docs/PeerTutoring.pdf


Does classwide peer tutoring work, why or why not?

If peer tutors were used what subjects/grade levels would it be helpful?

What can teachers do the help facilitate the usage of peer tutors in the classroom?


Using peer tutors, is this something you have considered or actually do already in your classes? If not, why not? If so,how do you do it and for whom?

Week Eleven: Upcoming Dates

T-Prep Survey-Friday April 2-Friday April 9. Check your email to click on the link
U of A Survey-Friday April 9- Friday April 16. Check you email to click on the link (Cooperating teachers need to check thier email and click on the link)

How are you students adjusting after spring break? What upcoming events are going on at your sites?

Week 10: What are your plans?

What are your plans for spring break? Have you had any job prospects, will you continue with graduate studies? Share how things are going at your site.

Week 9: Becoming an excellent teacher

The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate "apparently ordinary" people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people. ~K. Patricia Cross

Reflect over the past eight weeks and thing of the things you have done to stimulate your students.

Week eight: Midterm

Although you are still working up to a full load, I thought I'd remind everybody that you are half way through this experience!!

Think of all the ideas that you had about teaching and how they've changed. Think about what hasn't changed and what you still need to work on. Becoming a good teacher is a journey, not a destination, isn't it?

This week, try to reflect on yourself as a teacher using the thoughts in the previous paragraph or those that you might want to add. I'm looking forward to hearing from you!!

And, of course, enjoy the Rodeo Break!!

Week Seven: Testing

Many school are doing testing this week, how is this affecting your instruction times? Are you having the students for longer periods or less than normal periods. How are you keeping the students motivated to do their work and maintain their testing schedule?

Week Six: Teaching Strategies

Look at the website and list the most challenging task as a student teacher and the least challenging task as a student teacher.



http://712educators.about.com/od/teachingstrategies/tp/teaching_tasks.htm

Week five: Professional development

Have you participated in any professional development at your school? Have you participated in any other extracurricular activities at your school?

Week four: Reflection on teaching

Since this is the week most of you begin teaching your first class, please share what you are learning and thinking. What have you done in your classes to foster creativity?

Week three: A short week

How was Tuesday after the MLK holiday for you and your classes? Was it difficult to get people back on track or just business as usual?
What's occupying your time these days during school hours? What have you accomplished and what are you struggling with?

Week two: School life outside of your classroom

Have you identified any areas outside of your classroom that might effect student learning(e.g. Danielle's observation of body jumping)? Is it positive or negative? Please elaborate.

2010 student teachers

Danielle Saffer is student teaching in the Early Childhood Education program at Canyon del Oro High School with Jennifer Atteberry-Pierpont.

2010 student teachers

Christina Martinez is teaching in Culinary Arts with Elizabeth Nemeth at Sahuarita High School.

Introducing Jennifer Moore, M.S., FACS Supervisor!!

Jennifer has a masters degree from the University of Central Oklahoma in Family and Child Studies. Her undergraduate degree is from Langston University (also in Oklahoma) in Child Development.

She moved to Arizona in June, 2009 with her son who is a freshman at Cienega High School in Vail. She also has a daughter who is a college freshman.

She has been a preschool teacher, school-based social worker, college instructor ,and currently foster care program coordinator for Intermountain Services. Between her degrees, work experience and parental status, she's a great fit for our FACS Ed family. Welcome Jennifer!!

The first week of student teaching

Here's where you can list and/or discuss the highs and lows of the first week of student teaching. Come on now, we're listening!!!