Refers to a mandatory document needed in order to teach in the public school system.
Replace full-time teachers when they must be out due to illness, family responsibilities, or other personal or professional reasons.
Describes a journal that records a high amount of detail regarding the teaching experience. The student teacher is required to log the day’s events, then choose one specific event and analyze it.
Refers to what the students already know or think they know about the lesson topic.
Is a written reminder of how a lesson is to be presented and how important information and essential skills should be practiced and learned.
Refers to a situation in which a team of teachers shares and rotate approximately 80-100 students.
Is an observation that is conducted with a clear purpose, where the observer is an active participant in the process.
Refers to the use of technology, such as video or webcams, allowing large numbers of teaching students to observe classrooms without disrupting the teaching or learning process. These can then be discussed afterward.
Refers to the teachers teaching only their subject area to multiple classes.