Expectations

In practicum or field experiences, preservice teachers: 

• gain knowledge of the classroom environment and the role of the teacher
• work directly under the supervision of an experienced teacher
• implement instruction from written lesson plans
• assist the teacher with classroom instruction and management tasks
• interact one-to-one with students, study classroom activities and teacher-student interactions
• learn from “best practices”
• examine their own philosophy of teaching and consider the practices they will use in their own classroom
• determine the appropriateness of teaching as a career, and allows the cooperating teacher and college supervisor to assess a preservice teacher’s readiness for the next field experience or student teaching experience
• integrate knowledge of their content, pedagogical knowledge and diverse population of skills, knowledge or the characteristics of students and the environmental context of learning, as well as the professional dispositions needed to be a successful facilitator of learning

Lesson Planning

In your experiences, you will utilize LiveText for planning (and other activities). When you create a plan in LiveText, you will use the following format. NCC Lesson Planning Format