Internship Orientation Seminar

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Internship Orientation Seminar

• Dr. Jay Wilson
• August 24, 2012

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Agenda

• Welcome / Introductions
• Internship Overview
• Timeline
• Expectations, roles and responsibilities
• Supervision/ Documentation
• PGPs
• Resources - Cohort wiki http//saskinterns.wikisp
  aces.com/Lunch
• PMPP
• Preparation
• Management (Responsible Learners!)
• Professionalism
• Personalization
• Unit and Lesson Planning
• The Big 4
• Wrap up / Homework

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Welcome

• Who am I?
• Please introduce yourself.
• This group will be your most important resource
  and support.
• Embarking on the most difficult task in which you
  have ever engaged.

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Timeline
In-service 1 Sept 21 Plan first unit with
Co-op Review PGG process
In-service 2 Oct 19 Based on midterm
Evaluation Fine-Tuning Unit 2
Now August 24th Begin Get to know your school
and the procedures for internship
Homework Ethnography
Teaching ½ time Midterm evaluation due October 15
October 22th Begin your Full time teaching 25
Days
Draft of final evaluation to me by December 7th
December 21 School is over
Winding down teaching
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DEVELOPMENTAL TIMELINE OF 16-WEEK INTERNSHIP
Weeks 1-2 Weeks 3-4 Weeks 5-6
Begin Week 1 by observing and team-teaching Deliver co-generated unit to your co-op teacher for feedback and edit it for use By Week 2 Teach one lesson a day Deliver co-generated unit to your college supervisor for feedback By Week 3 Teach two lessons a day Begin teaching your co-generated unit By Week 4 Begin developing your second formal unit plan By Week 5 Teach half-time Make sure your PGG is up to date Deliver your second formal unit plan to your co-op teacher and college supervisor for feedback By Week 6 Complete the Midterm assessment Begin developing further units in preparation for full-time teaching
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TIMELINE
Weeks 7-8 Weeks 9-11 Weeks 12-14
By Week 7 Begin teaching full-time (three to five weeks or longer if you arrange it) Begin teaching your second formal unit after edits (if necessary) By Week 8 Deliver additional units to your co-op teacher for feedback (they do not need to be okayed by your college supervisor) By Week 9 Make sure your PGG is up to date By Week 11 Arrange to visit other classrooms/schools for professional development opportunities (scheduled for the final two weeks of the internship) By Week 12 Begin decreasing teaching to half-time By Week 13 Begin to visit other classrooms/schools and professional development opportunities By Week 14 Complete the final assessment with your co-op teacher and send it to your college supervisor for feedback
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TIMELINE
Weeks 15-16
By Week 15 Continue to visit, observe and possibly teach in areas that are outside your teaching areas. Visit with the school counselor. By Week 16 Enjoy your time in the school. Ask for reference letters from co-op, principal, other teachers you may have worked with.
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IN-SERVICE DATES LOCATIONS

• In-service 1 for teacher candidates and
  cooperating teachers September 21, 900am -
  300 p.m. Room 2010 College of Ed
• In-service 2 for teacher candidates only
  October 19, 900 a.m. 300 p.m. Room 2010
  College of Ed
• In-service 3 (half day) the TC and Co-op
  decide when to take the half day to work on the
  midterm assessment. This half day can be spent
  in the home school.

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EXPECTATIONS FOR THE INTERNS

• Attendance
• Arrive early and leave late
• Report absences to the college supervisor
• Regular communication with cooperating teacher
  and college supervisor
• Daily pre- and post- conferences and feedback
• Co-planning and co-teaching

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EXPECTATIONS FOR THE INTERNS

• Formal Lesson Plans (2 formal plans each day)
• 2 Unit Plans
• First
• 3 5 lessons for part-time teaching
• Co-planned with Co-op
• Second
• 10 15 lessons
• During full time teaching

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EXPECTATIONS FOR THE INTERNS

• Regular documentation in the PGP Tables
• Infusion of Aboriginal Content, Knowledge and
  Ways of Knowing
• Some involvement in School and Community
  Activities

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Supervision

• My role is to support both you and your co-op
• Assess the relationship and determine if you need
  my help
• Learner focused supervision
• Coaching, consulting, collaborating, calibrating

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My roles

• Observe you in your classroom
• Provide you with feedback
• Help you document and reflect on your experience
• Provide you with support when you need it
• Formal visits in October and November
• Pre and post conferencing
• Informal visits /extra curr if I can swing it

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Learner focused supervision

• I will watch the students not you
• Not a performance
• Take notes
• I can use an evaluation sheet
• I will share with you what I have observed
• You can connect my observations to the PGP
• Show achievement
• Show need for improvement

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Documentation

• Data sheet
• Lesson plans
• Daily planner
• Email updates
• PGP

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PGP

• Most important source of evidence of what you are
  doing. Crucial for midterm and final evaluations
• Do not have to meet them all
• Not finished if you have them all
• Not checkboxes
• Constantly revising, doing multiple entries

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PGP

• Some you will do regularly others, only once
• Shows your growth
• Not all evidence comes from the classroom or
  school setting
• Regular journal dated with feedback
• Only one PGP goal per lesson

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PGP

• Improved
• What really happened in your internship
• Invite your cooperating teacher(s) so we can ALL
  read and add to your PGP goals evidence and
  reflections periodically
• Review new PGP
• Local File, Wikispaces, Google.docs

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Resources

• Group wiki
• saskinterns.wikispaces.com
• Field Services
• Saskatoon public
• STF
• Stewart Resource Centre
• First nations information and ideas from other
  teachers, OTC

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Lunch
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What will make you successful

• Preparation
• Management
• Professionalism
• Personalization

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Preparation

• Key to classroom management
• Thoughtful and creative daily lesson plans
• Prepare everything you will need to teach
• Units
• Assessment and evaluation
• Materials
• Keys/passwords
• Administrationy stuff
• Your co-op may not need to or is not interested
  in detailed preparation
• You have not earned that right

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Mangement

• How do you handle your classroom?
• How do you engage your students?
• Issues of respect
• Earned and given
• Developing this skill will take time.

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Professionalism

• Issues of privacy and confidentiality are
  important
• Different than small towns but everyone still
  knows everyone else
• Dress
• Language
• Truly become a member of the staff. Ask
  questions and get to know what is happening in
  the school
• You are not a student any more
• Sick days

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TEACHER PROFESSIONALISM

• STF Code of Professional Competencies Ethics
• Dangers
• Especially for guys. Power relationship
• What you say
• Where you look
• How you approach people
• Everything you do is being interpreted by a very
  impressionable group

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Issues of professionalism

• How to deal with problem students
• Know the procedure for multiple absences
• Contacting parents
• Working with EA or TA
• Look for potential dangers
• Never be alone with the students
• Who is named in the suit?
• Driving is a no no, field trips

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Personalization

• Get to know your students
• Cannot teach them or plan without knowing them
• Use the first ten days or so to get an idea about
  who you are working with then plan your first
  unit.

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Lesson and Unit Planning

• Lesson planning
• Field services site Extensive planning templates
• Lesson Plan template (Wiki)
• Unit planning
• Unit Plan template (Wiki)
• Co-generated unit process

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Lesson and Unit Planning

• Most important part of teaching.
• What is it you want your learners to know?
• Research shows that it is what you will struggle
  with the most.
• General planning/Specific planning.
• Weekend update.

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The Big 4 of planning

• Adaptation
• Related to content, instruction, environment
• Differentiation
• Related to individual students
• Assessment
• Assessment of learning, assessment for learning
• Inquiry-based education
• Learn with your students, flexibility, takes the
  pressure off of you, FNMI, and offshoot of
  technology

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Teaching skills checklist

• What makes a teacher good ?
• Observe the teaching going on around you.
• Review checklist on wiki

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If things are not working out

• You have until November 15 to withdraw.
• Internships sometimes do not work the first time.
• Not a problem to redo your internship.
• Often works out better than the situation you are
  in currently.

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Think about it

• Internship will be the most difficult task you
  have ever undertaken
• You will all have weaknesses
• How you respond to them is what is important
• Up to you to be the best for every student you
  come into contact with
• Bottom line is how is student learning is
  impacted by what you do.
• A long job interview. You have four months to
  impress your coop and your principal

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Wrap up and homework

• Questions, issues or concerns
• Homework Big Ideas in Education

• Ethnography of school/community
• Big Ideas in education
• Adaptive dimension
• Differentiated instruction
• Content areas and teaching strategies
• Resources and resource-based learning
• First Nations content
• Cultural diversity
• Teacher and student support services
• Communicating and reporting to parents
• Record keeping
• Division or school major initiatives

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First In-service

• Planning of your first unit (3 5 lessons)
• Bring a laptop if possible
• Bring PGP Goal Tables examples of
  evidence/indicators
• Interns should be prepared to teach their
  cooperating teacher about the PGP goals and
  sub-goals and how to use the goal tables.

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Wrap up

• Feedback cards
• Most useful part of today.
• A question you still have.
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