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What do you have to do during student teaching for teacher certification? |
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Student teaching involves a variety of tasks. Basically you are learning to be a teacher through daily classroom experience. Most teacher certification degree programs require that you attend student teaching for 12-16 weeks. You will spend an entire semester in a classroom. You will be a classroom that is in line with you the age you will be able to teach and the subject area.
You will be under the supervision of a teacher. Some programs call them supervising teachers while other programs call then cooperating teachers. Your cooperating teacher will help you along the way. They will show you how to do classroom management (discipline and organization), instruction techniques, assessment techiques, etc. They will act as your mentor throughout the process.
Usually you will start off the first couple weeks by observing your cooperating teacher. This will help you to become familiar with the school schedule. Then you will ease into teach 1 class then 2 up to 4 or more classes per day. For about one month to six weeks you will teach the entire day and your cooperating teacher will observe.
Your cooperating teacher will provide you with feedback and help during the process. College faculty may come observe your teaching as well.
First answer by JillianG. Last edit by JillianG. Contributor trust: 332 [recommend contributor]. Question popularity: 19 [recommend question]





