Student Teaching
Student teaching is the capstone field experience where ETE students teach in an elementary classroom for eight weeks and then teach in an appropriate classroom for their concentration area for another eight weeks. In addition to gradually taking over the classroom responsibilities in this semester-long placement, student teachers complete a portfolio, a teacher work sample, and either a second teacher work sample or an Academic and Behavioral Intervention Plan. All of these activities are designed to prepare students for the teaching profession. The Student Teaching Manual provides support materials and describes all of the activities during the student teaching experience.
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EDUC 400 STUDENT TEACHING
Course Description
Welcome to the student teaching semester! Through the courses and field experiences that have preceded this semester, you have been developing the roles and dispositions of scholar, problem solver, and partner. As a teacher candidate at the University of Delaware, you have discovered the importance of thoughtful analysis and continual revision of approaches to teaching and learning. In this, your student teaching semester, you now have the opportunity to apply, adapt, and revisit all that you have learned about teaching and learning as you serve the children, adolescents, and adults within the school and community settings in which you are placed.
Course Content and Goals
The primary goal of the student teaching semester is to provide you with the opportunity to be a reflective practitioner serving diverse communities who assumes, integrates, develops, and refines three related and critical professional roles: scholar, problem solver, and partner.
As a scholar, as a problem solver, and as a partner you will be organizing content for student learning (planning), creating an environment for student learning (management), teaching for student learning (lesson execution), and developing your professional skills and relationships (teacher professionalism). You will also be developing several other important dispositions and values. These include:
- Self-reflection, which will enable you to critique your performance and to make and support judgments and instructional decisions with evidence about the learning of individuals or groups of students.
- Deeper insight into the nature of the learning process and greater knowledge of human development.
- An understanding of the roles of the many different individuals engaged in the teaching-learning process and of collaborative partnerships that can work for common purposes.
- Realization of the importance of your own personal and professional goals.
- Proficiency in instructional competencies and classroom management techniques through direct experiences and the thoughtful analysis and revision of approaches.
- Knowledge of the resources and materials available to the classroom teacher and the ability to adapt and/or incorporate available resources and materials into the instructional program.
- Increased skill in performing routine administrative duties including the maintenance and submission of required records and reports.
Forms
The links below provide quick access to forms that are also included in the Student Teaching Manual:
Student Teaching Coordinators
Ms. Vicki Goettel | Pennsylvania | Email: vgoettel@udel.edu
Vicki Goettel is a Student Teacher Coordinator, for the neighboring Pennsylvania school districts, at the University of Delaware. She completed both her Bachelor of Science degree and master of Instruction degree at the University of Delaware. Her professional experience includes teaching fourth and fifth grades in the Appoquinimink School District. She worked collaboratively with other teachers to design the district Social Studies curriculum based on the State Standards. She is a Teacher Consultant for the Delaware Geographic Society. She was honored with being named the Teacher of the Year for Redding Intermediate School and inducted into the Alpha Delta Kappa Sorority.
Ms. Ann Jornlin | Colonial | Email: ajornlin@udel.edu
Mrs. Ann Jornlin acts as the lead student teaching coordinator for the ETE Student Teaching program. She supervises student teachers and methods students within the Colonial School District. She conducts training sessions for cooperating teachers on "Performance Assessment of Student Teachers: Introduction to Pathwise." Other responsibilities include updating the ETE Student Teaching Manual and overseeing the Student Teaching Website. She has served on the Faculty Affairs Committee and was the Project Manager for the New Teacher Mentoring Program in the Colonial School District. Having served as a coordinator for many years, she continues to love her job!
Ms. Deirdre Lilly | Red Clay | Email: dlilly@udel.edu
Deirdre Lilly is the student teaching coordinator for the Red Clay School District. She supervises the field experience for Elementary Teacher Education candidates collaborating with district administrators and teachers. Since 2001, she has conducted Pathwise evaluation training workshops to cooperating teachers and other student teaching program supervisors. She collaborates with other ETE coordinators to structure the course requirements and guidelines for the ETE student teaching program.
Dr. Marsha Baumeister | Cecil County | Email: marshab@udel.edu
Marsha Baumeister serves as an Assistant Professor in the School of Education at the University of Delaware, a Field-placement Coordinator for Science Semester, and a Student Teacher Coordinator for Cecil County, Maryland. She currently teaches literacy methodology and graduate education courses. Her professional experience includes more than 20 years as a Middle School language arts teacher and reading specialist (K-12). In addition to serving as a principal of a National Blue Ribbon School, she also served as a design team member and facilitator of the Maryland Principals Academy. Dr. Baumeister earned a Masters of Education in reading instruction at Loyola College and a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Supervision at the University of Maryland. She has been awarded the Governor’s Citation for Instructional Leadership in Maryland Schools, the Judith Ruchkin Research Award (MASCD), and an Award in Teaching Excellence (BCPS). Her interests include literacy, educational leadership, administration, and enhancing educational equity.
Ms. Stephanie Kotch | Appoquinimink and Smyrna | Email: sakotch@udel.edu
Stephanie Kotch is an Instructor at the University of Delaware and coordinates the Vertical Model of Field Experience with Appoquinmink and Smyrna School Districts. She has compiled 23 years of diverse educational experience that includes Child Care Director, Administrative Director, Classroom Teacher, Professional Development Instructor, Elementary/Middle School Science Specialist, and University Instructor. Her current research interests include improved field experiences for pre-service teachers through coteaching, mentoring support within the student teaching triad, and preservice conversation groups. In 2003 and 2011, Ms. Kotch was recognized with the University Faculty Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Academic Advisement.
Dr. Elizabeth Soslau | Brandywine and Philadelphia | Email: esoslau@udel.edu
Elizabeth Soslau serves as an Assistant Professor in the School of Education at the University of Delaware. Her research interests include teacher education, communities of practice, adaptive expertise, and experiential learning. Her clinical work includes coordinating the student teaching practicum and teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in social emotional growth and developing communities of learners. Before pursuing her Ph.D., Elizabeth taught middle school in the Philadelphia School District. Please link to Elizabeth's curriculum vitae to learn more.
Mr. Tommy Totten | Christina | Email:ttotten@udel.edu
Tommy Totten serves as an Instructor in the School of Education at the University of Delaware and the Student Teacher Coordinator for the Christina School District. His professional experiences include over 15 years of advocacy to provide equitable teaching and learning opportunities for all students. He currently teaches a culture diversity undergraduate course. His experiences include Professional Development Instructor, After-school Curriculum Program Specialist, University Instructor & Supervisor, Early Reading and Middle School Mathematics Professional Development Researcher, Special Education Project Coordinator, and National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Bias Trainer. His research interests include urban education, professional learning communities, culturally responsive pedagogy and mathematics. Tommy taught special education in grades K-8 in the North Carolina Public School System.
Cooperating Teacher Manual
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Spring 2012 Newsletters
Follow the links below to read the Fall 2012 Student Teaching Newsletters.
