Presentation from UFLA 2010 conference

1. How to Train a Student
Teacher

2. Build a Working Relationship.
This is not a competition.

3. Make the student teacher a part of
the classroom and school
community.
Prepare your students
and keep them ‘in the loop’.
Student teacher should be teaching
something the first day,
have their own desk area,
and their own set of seating charts.

4. The first week
My assumptions.
What I expect from you.
What you should expect
from me.
Daily Schedule
Contract time
Calendar
You will observe excellent
teachers here at the end
of your experience.
I gotta be me!
You gotta be you!
Student teacher quiz
Taking roll
Learning names
Recording scores
Building the student
teacher’s confidence.

5. The first week
Substitute info.
Phone numbers
Lunch info.
Supply requests
JPAS – teacher evaluation
Other teachers/administrators
will give input.
Health issues
Rest, water, wash hands, food,
germs from students, Spray
Lysol on papers, disinfectant
wipes, tissues, hand
sanitizer, Tylenol, Bandaids,
I gotta be me!
You gotta be you!
Student teacher quiz
Taking roll
Learning names
Recording scores
Building the student
teacher’s confidence.

6. Tag-Team Teaching
¡Choca la mano!
Student teacher
transitions into
teaching some of
your classes.
Advanced organizer
on the board.

7. Demonstration
Scheduling: Who’s turn is it to teach?
me
me/you
(which parts do you want to teach?)
discussion on prep period
you
you/me
you
you

8. Practice
Vocal support. Breathing.
Standing to teach. (wandering)
Plays to which side of room?
Garbage words.
Physical ‘tics’.
Tempo = how fast/slow you
speak the language. Also
how fast/slow activities go.
Transitions = sing, keep giving
instructions, count backward,
set timer.
got C.U.E.?
Creative, Useful,
Emotional
Butting in is OK.
‘Clean’ language – slang?
Questioning – ¿Cómo se
dice? ¿Qué es esto?
¿Comprenden?, wait
time.
yes-no, either-or
Memory tricks, RAPS,
songs, rhymes,
Order of instructions

9. Practice
Timing = how long for each
activity? How much to push
them? How about extra time?
BEGINNING middle END
15 min. 20 min. 10 min.
How much Spanish? = when they
give you the ‘I don’t get it’ look.
At-the-door quizzes
Comprehensible input (cognates,
verb forms, command forms,
subject pronouns, kids using their
notebooks)
got C.U.E.?

10. What do you look like up there?
Facial expressions.
Eyes. Eyebrows.
Smile!
Body location
(brain friendly)
Video tape.

11. Classroom Management
Smile, sounds, proximity,
humor, sarcasm.
Use all body parts.
Practice in front of mirror.
Hand, fingers, arms, voice,
eyes, eyebrows, nose,
lips, teeth, feet, ears,
elbow.
Praise phrases – Come up
with at least 10.
¡Fenomenal! etc.

12. Classroom Management
Who’s listening?
School-wide discipline plan
–Think time –3 strikes
Follow through.
(eat the paper)
See the whole room at once.
Hear every voice.
Know when to ignore.

13. Discipline Faces

17. Observing your Student Teacher
Their authority.
How much freedom do they
have?
Refer students to them.
Management.
Procedures
Pointing to visual aides.
Using visual aides.
Are you actually talking
about what is in your
hands?
Writing on whiteboard.
Move your body too.

18. The law of the pack.

19. Observation Notes from
Cooperating Teacher
Always write down the positive first.
Let's talk about...
The teachers circle of influence and awareness.
What certain students are doing.
The University adviser..

20. Organization
planning
paperwork
making copies
secretarial stuff
answering emails
storing papers
filing system
grading papers
Skyward grading program
Printing progress reports
Student aide’s job

21. Planning and Collaboration
Cooperating teacher has the curriculum
map and scope and sequence.
Student teacher will plan, prepare and
teach one unit.
Cooperating teacher shares all ideas
that they have, then let the student
teacher take it from there.

22. Get out of the way!
Student teacher should have the opportunity
to teach 2 class periods without you in the
room for at least 3 weeks.
Student teacher should take over 3 or 4
classes. Not all of them.
You still teach 1st
period and tag-team during
2nd
period.

23. Observation opportunities
Student teacher should observe other
master teachers in your building near
the end of their student teaching
experience when you are integrating
yourself back in as the main teacher.
They will know better what to look for
after having their teaching experience.

24. Share Your Skills!