Common use of Student Teaching Clause in Contracts

Student Teaching. Culminating experience of a minimum of 15 full-time weeks to provide the candidate with sufficient depth of experience for a significant duration of time. The candidate works as an apprentice teacher, engaged in all of the duties and responsibilities of a regular classroom teacher, and maintains the same schedule as the classroom teacher. The candidate spends a minimum of 13 weeks with the primary cooperating teacher and 2 weeks with an alternate teacher as approved by the principal. The candidate is required to teach a total of 5 formally-observed lessons, in addition to lessons required for edTPA. The first observed lesson will be evaluated by the cooperating teacher and the university clinical supervisor using the TEAM rubric, the second by the cooperating teacher using a Modified TEAM rubric, the third by the university clinical supervisor using the TEAM rubric, the fourth by the cooperating teacher using a Modified TEAM rubric, and the fifth by the cooperating teacher and the clinical supervisor using the TEAM rubric. Tusculum University strongly encourages one full week of solo-teaching time or at least two full weeks of co-teaching with the cooperating teacher. The student teaching experience is designed to provide the candidate with consistent opportunities to demonstrate his or her developing effectiveness and positive impact on students’ learning and development in a learning environment with diverse groups of learners.