Techie Turtle Teacher

I hope you enjoyed  part 8  of this series about giving feedback to your student teacher.  If you missed it, you can click on the picture above to see all the posts in this series! It is very important for your student teacher to learn how to reflect on his/her lessons.  You can help with this process by asking him/her to think about what went well and what didn't go so well.  Your student teacher should think about why things went well and why things did not go well.  He/she should try to keep track of the things that went well in order to do the same thing in the future.  Your student teacher should also think about what he/she can do differently in the future. Your student teacher doesn't need to formally reflect on every single lesson that is taught, but he/she should try to reflect on at least one lesson a day.  You can set up a reflection schedule to make sure that he/she is reflecting on different subjects or j...

I hope you enjoyed part 7 of this series about giving feedback to your student teacher.  If you missed it, you can click on the picture above to see all the posts in this series! Once your student teacher starts teaching lessons, it is important for him/her to learn how to grade.  Make sure you discuss your grading scale.  Do your students receive letter grades, number grades, codes, etc?  Whatever you use, make sure your student teacher understands. Show your student teacher how you keep track of grades.  Where is your grade book?  Is it electronic?  Is it on a website or is it just a program on your computer?  Is it a paper copy?   Once your student teacher begins grading, where do you want him/her to record the grades?  Do you even want him/her to input it directly?  Do you want the grades to be written out on a spreadsheet for you to input the grades later?  Do you just want the graded paper...