Teacher education retreat

Stuff I learned:

  • Methods class will be prior to residency.
    • Examples:
      • interview a mentor teacher.
      • record some teaching, then bring it back and annotate it.

Open questions:

  • What field experience context is required to make the advanced certificate feasible?
  • Is the initial cert-only residency-based?
  • What qualifies as field experience?

Next steps

  • All of our students in I or I/P will engage in a yearlong clinical placement.
    • Shall we seek sponsored residencies?
    • Eligible for Noyce?
    • With BOCES?
    • Apprenticeship grants, training grants?
  • Residents appreciate the structure provided by residency: It lets students plan part-time jobs and (hopefully) get placed in a residency in a school/district where they have an existing relationship and potential future employment.
  • Is substitute teaching a good experience for residents?
  • I need to find 50 hours of fieldwork.
    • Shall we require the methods class?

Handbook updates

I and I/P are residency-based clinical placements.

  • Find out the schedules for residency-based programs and design the corresponding CS ed residency.
    • What does this look like for course calendars?
  • How can the methods course support MWC (or interact with it)

The student teaching/practica requirements for teaching a special subject require 100 hours of field experiences, then 40 days of student teaching, with the following exception: Limited Exemption for candidates with prior teaching experience:

A candidate who is enrolled in a graduate-level program leading to certification in one or more certificates shall be exempt from the requirements for clinical experiences if such candidate satisfies one or more of the following conditions: 1) they have completed a New York State registered teacher preparation program prior to enrollment and hold an Initial and/or Professional certificate 2) hold National Board certification or 3) have at least one year of effective teaching under a valid New York State or out-of-state teaching license or certificate.

Clinical experience requirements for candidates that qualify for the limited exemption:

The clinical experience shall require the candidate to complete at least 50 clock hours of student teaching or practica, where such experiences focus on the applicable program-specific pedagogical core requirements for the special subject certificate and must occur with actual students in the special subject educational settings.

So we need 50 hours of practicum or student teaching. Practicum is