1. Project Teaching Required Teaching Semester

2. What do I do first? Prior to your required teaching placement, as soon as Karen provides you the name(s) of your cooperating teacher(s), you should set up a brief meeting to get acquainted. At this meeting, find out what the course schedule will be and plan together a strategy to ramp up your responsibility to full time teaching and then to pull back out it’s common to observe the first week - even in other rooms, then to teach one class, then add in gradually until you are responsible for the full load, and then give back a class at a time, until you’re phased out.

3. Expectations in the placement Get involved in as much as possible - inside the classroom, and within the building. Attend meetings, IEPs, etc. Offer to help with things. Write lesson plans for every lesson you teach (remember this is your practice run before you do it with students) Ask for suggestions from your cooperating teacher Soak in as much as you can about school life in this setting

4. How will I be evaluated? You and your cooperating teacher should regularly chat about teaching strategies and how things are going. At mid-term and the end of the placement this will be formalized with the completion of an evaluation formevaluation You will be visited 4 times by someone from Norda. Each of these visits should include observation of a lesson and a brief feedback session. You should have a lesson plan printed for the observer. This form will be used for the observation.form

5. What else do I need to do? Keep a weekly journal of your experience Look at the Portfolio 2 rubric and sample efolio so that you collect all the artifacts required for the portfolio.Portfolio 2 rubricefolio Keep all your observations, evaluations and documents in a safe place so that you can easily access them for your portfolio in myefolio. Have fun! Learn a lot!

6. Other questions What if I’m sick? Be sure to call your school office and cooperating teacher as early as possible. If your absence might extend for a long time, we might need to modify your semester. Do I have to create all my own materials? You can use text books and materials that are present in the classroom, modifying them as you see fit to make them ‘yours.’ You might choose to create some materials (and it often makes a good impression to do so) but you don’t need to reinvent the wheel...so to speak. Can I work outside of the required teaching? It will be very difficult to work outside of the hours you are spending in the school and there will be a lot of preparation you will need to make for each class, so we strongly discourage additional employment outside of the required teaching. Can I sub? Yes. Obviously this would be ideal in your cooperating teacher’s room; but if it’s OK with the cooperating teacher and the principal that can be allowed for a small number of days. Other questions... Contact Project Teaching

7. What about when I’m done? Put together your Portfolio 2. Complete an Initial License application Send the license application (with payment to DPI) to Norda, PO Box 129, Ladysmith 54848; and send a link to your efolio to mark@norda.commark@norda.com Mark will review your materials and submit a recommendation to DPI for your initial licensure.