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COMPLETING
THE FINAL EVALUATION REPORT
The final evaluation
report represents the student to a future employer. Care should
be taken to make sure that these reports are completed nearly and
with correct grammar and spelling.
ORIGINAL copies
of the final evaluation reports should be sent to the Office of
Clinical Studies. Students can go to the OCS and sigh the release
form for their reports to be sent to Career Services. PLEASE DO
NOT GIVE THE ORIGINAL COPY FO THE REPORT TO THE STUDENT. When the
OCS receives a copy and not the original, employers are being sent
a copy of a copy of a copy that is usually not a very good copy.
Please be
sure to complete the evaluation form in its entirety. When the OCS
completes certification forms, the number of hours, the teaching
field, grade level(s), etc. must be documented. If this information
is missing from the report, it is very difficult to complete the
certification forms accurately. When writing reports of special
education placements, it is extremely important to describe how
the pupils in the class were classified or identified. Certification
forms require this information.
Remind students
to record their hours daily. Students completing one experience
for nine credits need a total of 360 hours. Students completing
multiple experiences for 6 credits each need a total of 240 hours
for each experience.
Please encourage
cooperating teachers to record the accurate number of observation
hours and teaching hours. The total number of hours should not simply
be split in half (e.g., 180/180 or 120/120). Recording hours in
this manner does a disservice to the student teacher since most
of our student teachers attain far more teaching hours than observation
hours.
Cooperating teacher should be reminded that they should not use
final evaluation forms from handbooks or forms that are three-holed
punched. It is very important that the student's ID number is recorded
on the form, as the OCS and Career Services need this number in
order to scan the form into the system.
Blank copies of the final evaluation form are available on the disks
in the manuals that are distributed by you to the cooperating teachers.
- Disks are
to be kept in a secure place since we do not want students writing
their own final evaluation reports.
- When completing
the mid-placement evaluation, please be sure to write "mid-placement
evaluation" prominently on the report. Some students have
preferred their mid-placement evaluation to their final evaluation
and have tried to put the mid-placements evaluation in their credential
file.
- All disks
are to be collected at the end of the experience and returned
to the coordinator, along with the manual, the blue Praxis booklet
and the Student Teaching Guidelines. The forms are consumable,
but we cannot afford to replace the disks, Praxis booklets, and
Guidelines each semester/each year. These items are to be kept
by you or returned to the Office of Clinical Studies to be passed
on to the next group of cooperating teachers. If we do not receive
them from you, we will assume that you are taking responsibility
for distributing them to the next group of cooperating teachers.
- Both a MAC
and a PC version of the disks are included in the manual. Please
be sure to collect both disks at the end of the placement.
- Remind cooperating
teachers that they can keep a copy of their completed report by
saving it to their hard drive or copying it to another disk. Since
the disk that they have been given will be passed on to another
teacher, the student teacher's report should not be saved onto
that disk.
- Teachers
and supervisors should print a hard copy of the report and send
it to the OCS. If you would like to collect all of your reports
from your cooperating teachers, that is fine, however, please
be certain to deliver the reports to the OCS.
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