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- Secure copies of all pertinent forms from your program coordinator or facilitator.
- Complete your Autobiographical Sketch and send copies to your cooperating teacher and facilitator.
- Complete the Intern I Contact Form. As soon as you obtain information for the cooperating teacher section, type the form and send copies to your cooperating teacher and facilitator.
- Read and demonstrate adherence to the Code of Ethics and Standard Practices for Texas Educators, available at http://www.edb.utexas.edu/education/edservices/fieldexperiences/5183/policies/ .
- Review the policy regarding Intern I students not being left alone with students except for very brief periods. See information for cooperating teachers above.
- Carefully study each cluster of the Formative and Summative Assessments. This document should guide your professional development. Be sure that you and your cooperating teacher have a clear understanding of the standards, skills and practices on which you will be evaluated.
- Print and thoroughly examine the TEA Curriculum Guidelines for Pre-Kindergarten and the Kindergarten TEKS from the TEA Web site.
- Discuss developmentally appropriate practices with your cooperating teacher.
- Review the introduction to this document with your cooperating teacher. Be sure that you have a shared understanding of the goals and purposes of this semester’s field experience.
- Demonstrate an understanding of school emergency procedures.
- Obtain a map of the school and tour the building.
- Tour the school attendance zone.
- Introduce yourself to a school administrator.
- Discuss briefly with a school counselor, a nurse, and the assistant principal such topics as student records, routine and emergency referrals and school safety.
- Clarify procedures for your use of library/media center material.
- Use a school district calendar to mark holidays, staff development, parent conference days, etc. Calendars are available through school district websites.
- Obtain a copy of your cooperating teacher’s schedule and complete a Daily Class Schedule form. Send a copy to your facilitator.
- Use a spiral notebook to record informal observations, questions, and concerns for reflective journals.
- Diagram the classroom and playground. Label areas for clarity. Date your diagram.
- Inventory materials used by your cooperating teacher (including those shared with other classes)
- Examine district curriculum guides and/or the district scope and sequence for language arts, mathematics, social studies and science. Ask your cooperating teacher to assist you in locating these materials.
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