Techie Turtle Teacher

Did you like part 6 of this series about observing your student teacher?  If you missed it, you can click on the picture above to see all the posts in this series! Today, I'm going to share some tips with you about giving feedback to your student teacher.  Last week's post and this week's are pretty similar, but I was able to find some new information for you this week.  Keep reading to see what I have to say! When your student teacher plans lessons, you need to give feedback.  Your feedback needs to be honest and you need to clearly give your student teacher ideas on how to improve. I use Microsoft Word and Google Docs when giving feedback to my student teacher.  She emails me her plans using Word.  I use the comment feature to give specific feedback on parts of her lessons.  Since the comment feature lets you highlight different words and sentences, she knows exactly what part of her lesson I am talking about.  She doesn't have to gue

Did you like part 5 of this series about planning?  If you missed it, you can click on the picture above to see all the posts in this series! Today, I'm going to share some tips with you about observing your student teacher.  Keep reading to see what I have to say! Once your student teacher starts planning lessons, he/she will start teaching those lessons. If your student teacher is going to improve, you need to observe their teaching. It is very easy to get sucked into feeling like he/she isn't doing it right because it is different than how you would teach the lesson.  Try to let it go! I know that is easier said than done, but it will make the placement easier. Let your student teacher make mistakes. He/she will learn more from making mistakes than if you jump in to correct the lessons immediately. Make notes of the mistakes or when you would do something differently, but try to bite your tongue. It is important for the students to see the s