EDUC 400

Your student teaching experience is the culmination of your professional teacher education program. Student teaching takes places throughout the full semester,in an elementary or secondary school classroom, for a full day, collaborating with a cooperating teacher. Preservice teachers also attend a weekly seminar. The student teaching experience involves four phases:

Orientation
Induction
Solo Teaching
Assessment and Continued Professional Development

Middle School level preservice teachers are placed with Cooperating Teachers in the same teaching field for two-thirds of the semester. Then spend the remaining five or six weeks observing and teaching in at least two other subject areas.

The evening seminar allows clinical supervisors to meet regularly with teacher candidates as a professional learning community for reflection and processing their experiences: feedback of instruction, forms of assessment, classroom management, parent involvement, and career preparation activities,such as portfolio organization, resume writing, interviewing skills, and application to NMPED for licensure.

Three half day, mentoring seminars will be scheduled for Cooperating Teachers (Mentor Teachers) during the semester.

Mentor Teachers, thank you for sharing your classroom and expertise with our UNM student teachers and guiding them during their professional journey.

Teacher and Cooperating Teachers are asked to register with UNM's Field Service Portal at http://fsp.unm.edu

Frances Vitali, Ph.D.

UNM Clinical Supervisor

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