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  • Familiarize your Intern I student with emergency procedures (fire, dangerous weather, intruders, injuries involving blood, etc.).
  • Introduce procedures for use of these facilities: telephone, laminating machine, copier, paper cutter, learning centers, art/music materials, and the classroom library.
  • Introduce your Intern I student to assessment instruments used to monitor student progress.
  • Help your Intern I student develop a greater awareness of the social, emotional, physical, cognitive and cultural domains of development.
  • Review the formative and summative assessment instruments used to assess your Intern I student’s progress. Discuss these instruments with your Intern I student.
  • Familiarize your Intern I student with your strategies for classroom management and for maintaining a positive classroom climate. Offer your full support as your Intern I student faces management and discipline issues.
  • Provide needed assistance as your Intern I student completes all the requirements outlined in the Intern I Student Guidelines section of this document. Help your Intern I student plan lessons to fit your students, schedule and school.
  • Examine your Intern I student’s lesson plans carefully and approve each plan prior to implementation.
  • Complete two formal observations. Provide oral and written feedback for the Intern I student and submit a copy to the UT facilitator . Follow the guidelines in this handbook. Please pay particular attention to the document titled “Observing and Planning Effective Conferences with Beginning Teachers.”
  • Preserve the dignity of your Intern I student when problems occur. Remember that the internship is a challenging learning experience.
  • Complete the Formative Assessment form following guidelines provided by the program coordinator and facilitator .
  • Consult with the facilitator and the program coordinator as needed.

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  1. Demonstrate professionalism by dressing appropriately, arriving punctually, focusing upon student needs, respecting confidentiality, communicating respectfully, accepting responsibilities readily, and handling school property carefully. Since most of our Intern I students are guests in AISD classrooms, we will pattern our dress code after theirs: http://www.edb.utexas.edu/education/edservices/fieldexperiences/5183/policies/
  2. Remember that your primary focus at all times should be your students and your cooperating teacher; minimize idle chitchat with other Intern I students.
  3. If an absence is unavoidable, telephone your cooperating teacher and UT facilitator in advance. Keep contact information related to your Intern I studentship accessible. Failure to provide prior notification may jeopardize completion of your field experience.
  4. Maintain contact with facilitator and program coordinator as necessary.
  5. Follow Intern I student sign-in procedures in place at your school site.
  6. Wear the UT Intern I student name badge to your school site each day.

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  1. Secure copies of all pertinent forms from your program coordinator or facilitator .
  2. Complete your Autobiographical Sketch and send copies to your cooperating teacher and facilitator
  3. 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 .
  4. 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/ .
  5. Review the policy regarding Intern I students not being left alone with students except for very brief periods. See information for cooperating teachers above.
  6. 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.
  7. Print and thoroughly examine the TEA Curriculum Guidelines for Pre-Kindergarten and the Kindergarten TEKS  from the TEA Web site.
  8. Discuss developmentally appropriate practices with your cooperating teacher.
  9. 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.
  10. Demonstrate an understanding of school emergency procedures.
  11. Obtain a map of the school and tour the building.
  12. Tour the school attendance zone.
  13. Introduce yourself to a school administrator.
  14. Discuss briefly with a school counselor, a nurse, and the assistant principal such topics as student records, routine and emergency referrals and school safety.
  15. Clarify procedures for your use of library/media center material.
  16. Use a school district calendar to mark holidays, staff development, parent conference days, etc. Calendars are available through school district websites.
  17. Obtain a copy of your cooperating teacher’s schedule and complete a Daily Class Schedule form. Send a copy to your facilitator .
  18. Use a spiral notebook to record informal observations, questions, and concerns for reflective journals.
  19. Diagram the classroom and playground. Label areas for clarity. Date your diagram.
  20. Inventory materials used by your cooperating teacher (including those shared with other classes)
  21. 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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  1. Teach two lessons planned by your cooperating teacher and debrief with your cooperating teacher.
  2. Teach a lesson planned collaboratively with your cooperating teacher. Debrief with your cooperating teacher.
  3. Plan, teach and analyze lessons as assigned for your other PDS classes.
  4. Consult with your cooperating teacher and make arrangements to have your facilitator formally observe any two lessons you teach.  Use the scheduling procedures presented to the cohort.
  5. Complete all field-based assignments for your PDS classes.

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