Role of Student Teachers

Candidates are considered faculty members within their assigned school(s). In this regard, they are administratively responsible to the building principal or the administrative leader of the school, and they are required to perform the assigned tasks and keep the commitments expected of regular faculty members. As students of Greenville University, they are expected to observe the Lifestyle Statement of the university, on or off campus (violations of professional conduct and/or abridgement of the Lifestyle Statement is to be reported to the Director of Field Experience and Clinical Practice for action).

Student teachers are responsible for furnishing certain materials to the Teacher Education Office for inclusion in a credential’s file and to make timely progress reports to university supervisors. Completed weekly schedules (for the anticipated week) should be provided directly to the supervisor AND uploaded to D2L on Sunday by 5 pm. Experience records should be completed each day by 8 pm.

These schedules/records will be submitted electronically. A weekly schedule forecasts the events of the following week and provides supervisors with a basis for planning visits. The experience record relates the time spent in various activities during the prior week. An accurate accounting of activities is important because the state of Illinois, as well as many other states, requires experience records for certification.

Items of importance include:

1. Directs class or group and Cooperative Teaching: Instructional times including teaching situations (i.e., cooperative teaching, days of full instructional responsibility, supervisory activities);

2. Observation of any class: Observations of teachers performing various activities in one or more classrooms;

3. Conferences, meetings, etc.: Conferences with cooperating teachers, other personnel within the schools, supervisors, and parents, as well as attendance at school activities, including parent association meetings, school board meetings, parent conferences, and performance events (athletic, dramatic, musical, etc.);

4. Other duties at school: Routine duties, including hours of preparation for instruction, record keeping, attendance taking, money collecting, report making, and paper grading.