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University Supervisor Quick Start Guide
This quick start guide is for the classroom teachers working with WOU students in the undergraduate and graduate teacher licensure programs.
Term 1 Overview
Required student teaching hours:
- Undergraduate, elementary: 2 ½ days per week.
- Undergraduate, secondary: 20 hours per week.
- Graduate, elementary: 4 hours per day.
- Graduate, secondary: 4 hours per day.
In the first four weeks of the term, the teacher candidate should spend approximately one and a half days per week in the classroom and one day per week observing in a total of four diverse settings. Examples of diverse settings include Title I, ESOL, Special Education, observing a counselor, and shadowing a specialist teacher (e.g. music, physical education, technology, art).
During the remaining weeks of the term, the teacher candidate will spend all their time in the classroom.
There will be one week in the third month of the term when the teacher candidate will be in your classroom full-time. During this week, the teacher candidate will teach a 3-5-day unit of instruction and have the opportunity to experience implementing edTPA expectations for the “Mock” edTPA.
Term 1 General Responsibilities
- Encourage your teacher candidate to attend faculty meetings and participate in Professional Learning Community (“PLC”) meetings when possible.
- Build relationships with school partners (e.g. say “hello” to the school principal when you’re on site).
- Submit travel logs each month.
Term 1 To Do’s
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Schedule a start-of-term meeting with your teacher candidate and cooperating teacher to orient them to term 1 requirements. During the meeting, you should:
- Exchange contact information.
- Go over the term 1 quick start guide for each role to make sure you all understand what’s expected.
- Verify the cooperating teacher received the link for TK20.
- Explain TK20 red flags.
- Show where to find student lesson plans in TK20.
- Review clinical observation feedback form process and requirements.
- Review PreCPAST and CPAST process and requirements.
- Explain the edTPA process.
- Remind the cooperating teacher about the cooperating teacher training, which should be completed within the first four weeks of the term.
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Complete an informal observation of your teacher candidate. We recommend using the Three-Column Chart (nothing to submit).
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Complete a formal observation of your teacher candidate. As part of this, you should:
- Coordinate with your teacher candidate to schedule a formal observation of one lesson in the unit.
- Review and provide feedback on the teacher candidate’s lesson plans, which the teacher candidate will submit in TK20 at least five days prior to the lesson.
- Complete a clinical observation feedback form in TK20 for the lesson you observed.
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Provide feedback to your teacher candidate on their Mock edTPA.
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Complete the PreCPAST form and summative (end-of-term) consensus meeting. As part of this, you should:
- Schedule and lead the consensus meeting with the teacher candidate and cooperating teacher to discuss everyone’s scores on the PreCPAST Form and to come to a consensus score.
- Fill-out your PreCPAST form in TK20 prior to the consensus meeting.
- Submit PreCPAST consensus sheet scores in TK20.
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Meet with the cooperating teacher to discuss their experiences from the term.
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Submit final grades.
Term 2 Overview
Required student teaching hours:
- Undergraduate, elementary: 2 ½ days per week.
- Undergraduate, secondary: 20 hours per week.
- Graduate, elementary: At least 4 hours per day.
- Graduate, secondary: At least 4 hours per day.
This term, the teacher candidate will plan, teach, and assess required lessons for their edTPA performance assessment. EdTPA is the nationally-normed performance assessment now required for all Oregon teacher candidates pre-licensure.
There will be two weeks in the last month of the term when the teacher candidate will be in the classroom full-time. During these weeks, they will teach a 7-10-day unit of instruction and complete edTPA tasks (literacy instruction for elementary candidates and content area instruction for secondary candidates).
Term 2 General Responsibilities
- Encourage your teacher candidate to participate in professional activities in the school community (e.g. faculty meetings, staff development days, PLC meetings, and student conferences).
- Continue to build relationships with school partners.
- Submit travel logs each month.
Term 2 To Do’s
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Schedule a start-of-term meeting with your teacher candidate and cooperating teacher to orient them to term 2 requirements. During the meeting, you should:
- Go over the term 2 quick start guide for each role to make sure you all understand what’s expected.
- Discuss edTPA timeline.
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Complete two formal observations of the teacher candidate. As part of this, you should:
- Coordinate with your teacher candidate to schedule the observations.
- Review and provide feedback on the teacher candidate’s lesson plans, which the teacher candidate will submit in TK20 at least five days prior to the lesson.
- Complete a clinical observation feedback form in TK20 for the lesson you observed.
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Complete the PreCPAST form and summative (end-of-term) consensus meeting. As part of this, you should:
- Schedule and lead the consensus meeting with the teacher candidate and cooperating teacher to discuss everyone’s scores on the PreCPAST Form and to come to a consensus score.
- Fill-out your PreCPAST form in TK20 prior to the consensus meeting.
- Submit PreCPAST consensus sheet scores in TK20.
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Meet with the cooperating teacher to discuss their experiences from the term.
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Meet with the teacher candidate to help them set goals for term 3.
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Submit final grades.
Term 3 Overview
During the third term, the teacher candidate will complete the required student teaching experience. They will be at the school full-time for 10 weeks.
There will be three weeks around the middle of the term when the teacher candidate will teach a 3-week unit of instruction.
Term 3 General Responsibilities
- Encourage your teacher candidate to participate in professional activities in the school community (e.g. faculty meetings, staff development days, PLC meetings, and student conferences).
- Continue to build relationships with school partners.
- Submit travel logs each month.
Term 3 To Do’s
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Complete CPAST training.
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Schedule a start-of-term meeting with your teacher candidate and cooperating teacher to orient them to term 3 requirements. During the meeting, you should go over the term 3 quick start guide for each role to make sure you all understand what’s expected.
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Complete two formal observations of the teacher candidate. As part of this, you should:
- Coordinate with your teacher candidate to schedule the observations.
- Review and provide feedback on the teacher candidate’s lesson plans, which the teacher candidate will submit in TK20 at least five days prior to the lesson.
- Complete a clinical observation feedback form in TK20 for the lesson you observed.
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Complete the CPAST form and formative (mid-term) consensus meeting. As part of this, you should:
- Schedule and lead the consensus meeting with the teacher candidate and cooperating teacher to discuss everyone’s scores on the CPAST Form and to come to a consensus score.
- Fill-out your CPAST form in TK20 prior to the consensus meeting.
- Submit CPAST consensus sheet scores in TK20.
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Complete the CPAST form and summative (end-of-term) consensus meeting. As part of this, you should:
- Schedule and lead the consensus meeting with the teacher candidate and cooperating teacher to discuss everyone’s scores on the CPAST Form and to come to a consensus score.
- Fill-out your CPAST form in TK20 prior to the consensus meeting.
- Submit CPAST consensus sheet scores in TK20.
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Meet with the cooperating teacher to discuss their experiences from the term.
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Complete a letter of recommendation for your teacher candidate if merited by their performance and disposition.
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Submit final grades.
