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teaching or class manage-
ment skills. Your cooperat-
ing teacher might just learn
a new technique from you!
Get student input
about your lessons. If you
aren't sure how your lesson
went, ask one or two stu-
dents what they thought.
Sometimes they have won-
derful suggestions!
Always plan too
much. It's better to have
too much planned than to
have the students sitting
there with nothing to do.
Befriend the Office
Staff (especially if you be-
lieve you will be staying in
the area). They can make
your time during student
teaching much easier to
handle. Don't underesti-
mate their worth.)
You’re almost there.
Graduation is so close you
can taste it. But before you
get ready to toss your cap
into the air, there’s one
more hurdle for you, per-
haps the most important:
Student Teaching. Here
are some tips for a success-
ful (and worth-while) stu-
dent teaching experience:
Take ownership of
your training and let your
cooperating teacher know
your expectations upfront.
Be professional. When
speaking with your cooper-
ating teacher, do so with
respect.
Follow the school
rules! This might seem ob-
vious but it is important
that you do not break the
rules your position helps to
enforce. If it is against the
rules to chew gum in class,
then do not chew it your-
self.
Treat the students as if
you are the actual teacher.
Many students try to be-
come friends with you first.
Give them reason to re-
spect you as a teacher, too.
Go everywhere with
your cooperating teacher!
Sit in on parent/teacher
conferences. This is all part
of teaching and you should
have experience with this
also!
Always try your best! If
you are doing your best
whether or not someone is
watching it won't be as
scary when they are!
Ask if you can inte-
grate some of your own
Make the Most of Your Student Teaching Experience!
June 2010 Volume 1, Issue 3
Student Teacher Newsletter
In This Issue:
Make the Most
of Your Student
Teaching Experi-
ence
Tip from a TA-
MUK Teacher
TEA Updates
New for you!
Performance-
based Academic
Coaching Team
COE Around
Campus:
What’s up at
TAMUK
-Various contributors
Tip From a TAMUK Teacher
What advice would you
give aspiring TAMUK
educators? I remember the
wisdom of my mentor
teacher who taught me to
be firm during the first two
weeks of school. She al-
ways told me to learn to
give a little and enjoy being
with the kids when you
can , but not during the
first two weeks. She said
that is the time you estab-
lish respect, authority, and
control over the classroom
environment, and until you
have that, you should stay
firm. She also said "Junior
high students are special.
In elementary school, kids
don't care what you know,
they just want to know
you love them. High
school students don't really
care if you like them or
not, they want to know
what you know. But in
junior high, they want to
know what you know AND
they want to know you love
them."
~Jessica Hester, Alumni,
Teacher, and Doctoral Candidate