Techie Turtle Teacher

I hope you found my second set of tips useful! You can click on the picture above to see all the posts in this series. Once your student teacher is introduced to the families, you need to set up a schedule for releasing responsibilities to your student teacher. If your student's school gives you a suggested schedule, you should follow that.  If not, you can use these guidelines to help you. You need to think about how long your student teacher should spend observing.  Make sure they have a few days to observe and take notes on routines.  This also gives them time to learn the names of your students. Once your student teacher has a chance to observe your teaching, then you can think about giving him/her more responsibilities. Start slowly.  Give your student teacher easy routines first - walking students to other places in the building, read alouds, transition times, etc. Then start planning and co-teaching with your student teacher.  Start slow.

I hope you found my first set of tips useful!  You can click on the picture above to see all the posts in this series. The very next thing you need to do after preparing for your student teacher is to introduce him/her to your students and families.  Read on to find out some things you should do. 1.  On your student teacher's first day, introduce him/her to your students and make sure it is clear why they are there.  It is important for your students to see the student teacher as a teacher as well. 2.  Give your student some time during their first day there to chat with your students for a few minutes.  Some things they can share are: name of the school they are attending, hobbies or other interests, family, etc. 3.  Your student teacher also needs to be introduced to the parents of your students.  The easiest way to accomplish this is for your student teacher to write a letter to be sent home to parents.  The letter can include many of the same things