For teacher candidates, 2006-2007
DAET advice and policy | TE Department Policies |Program Requirements | MSU policies
DAET advice and requirements
How you can make the program work
You know that, in the end, you make the program work for you, or not. You're more likely to be able to make it work for you if you know your instructors' game plan. This page gives you a general idea of what should be going on at each stage. It also shows why you should not leave behind what you should have learned so far.
Getting started in schools
This PowerPoint presentation covers all the basics: Getting into the school looking like a professional, and making yourself useful to the mentor teacher with whom you are placed, becoming the best assistant teacher you can be, and other important topics.
Practice Placements
We place you in schools with mentor teachers for practice work in TE 301, TE 401-2, and the internship. You need to know how we go about placement, and why, so that you can get the most from it. Notice that in the internship placement procedure, prospective interns write resumes for prospective mentor teachers.
Registering for TE 401, 402 for 2007-2008
To provide the best experience in the senior year, we require seniors to enroll in matching sections of TE 401 and TE 402. This page tells how to go about it.
Placement lists and school maps
This page has placement lists and links to maps and information for all elementary schools in which DAET is placing teacher candidates
Unit and lesson planning
Planning, teaching, and assessing units and lessons, and learning from that, are central activities in teaching and learning to teach. The page offers a set of questions too stimulate that process, and two common models of teaching that might be employed.
TE Department policies
Professional Teaching Standards (revised 4/25/2006)
These standards apply to interns’ performances in the intern year, and so should guide much of the work in earlier stages in the program. There are eight groups of standards: practicing a liberal education, teaching subject matter, engaging and responding to students, organizing a class, using an equipped school room, joining a faculty and school, engaging parents and guardians, and growing professionally. Each group has four to eight standards statements.
Professional Conduct Policy
In addition to meeting academic and testing requirements, teacher candidates and interns also must meet standards for their professional conduct. This policy states the main expectations. Standard 4 of the Professional Teaching Standards for interns also addresses professional conduct.
Procedures for handling disputes between students and instructors
In case of a dispute between a student and instructor, you need to know that the TE Department has approved procedures for handling disputes. Two important parts: A few acts by teacher candidates or interns so serious that instructors should report them immediately to the Team Leader, TE Department Chair, and Associate Dean for Student affairs. In most cases, the first step of the procedure calls for the student and instructor to work it out between them in a collegial and timely way. If an instructor cannot achieve that immediately, s/he should call in the team coordinator. We do not let trouble fester. Get the procedures at http://ed-web3.educ.msu.edu/te/teacherprep/HandleDispPol.htm.
Substitute Teaching by Interns
This policy regulates substitute teaching by interns, for their collaborating teachers. Field instructors will need to know the policy early in the fall semester. Consultation among intern, mentor, and field instructor is required before the intern begins to substitute teach, and forms must be completed to record the decision and to report the substitute teaching.
Elementary program requirements
Instructors should be generally informed about these requirements, but are not expected to know them in detail or to interpret them authoritatively. For authoritative interpretations, teacher candidates and interns should refer to the Student Affairs Office (SAO) in 134 Erickson Hall.
COE Office of Student Affairs
SAO offers the web pages describing elementary education requirements, and provides the detailed and authoritative interpretation of those requirements. Teacher preparation instructors should be generally informed about these requirements, but are not expected to know them in detail or to interpret them authoritatively.
Elementary education requirements
These pages attempt to provide relatively complete information about requirements that apply to elementary education. Scanning the left menu of the elementary program pages will provide you a sense of what is included in them, and enable you to allocate your time in skimming them.
Summary of the requirements
This page summarizes the main requirements of the program and provides links to the variouis parts of the requirements.
Criteria for Progression to the Internship
Note in this page that, to progress to the internship, teacher candidates must meet both academic and professional conduct requirements. In addition to filing grades, TE course instructors also file reports with DAET on the professional conduct of the members of their sections.
MSU policies and services
Selected MSU services for students
This selective list also is available from the left menu in elementary teams pages. MSU's list of services for students is much more extensive.
Code of teaching responsibility
All MSU instructors--faculty and doctoral students--are bound by MSU's Code of Teaching Responsibility, which is an important basis for interaction between students and instructors. The Code also is available from the MSU Ombudsman's web site.
Academic Freedom for Students at MSU
This is the University's statement on the rights and responsibilities of MSU students. AFR also is available from the MSU Ombudsman's web site.The TE Department's Procedures for Handling Disputes between Students and Instructors conforms to the “AFR” and is more specific for the teacher preparation program.
Final examination policy
This policy requires that all sections of all courses should meet during finals week--whether or not a final exam will be given--for a set of purposes named in the policy. The Final Exam schedule provides the meeting times for these sessions. In practical terms, this policy provides for having a normal working session in the last regular meeting of a course, and then up to two more hours, in the following week, to collect final assignments, summarize the course, and evaluate it.
Religious Observance Policy | Provost's Supplementary Letter
" The faculty and staff should be sensitive to the observance of these holidays so that students who absent themselves from class on these days are not seriously disadvantaged...."
Angel
is MSU’s course management software, by which instructors can publish syllabi, upload materials for download by members of classes, keep grades, administer tests and quizzes, etc.
Registrar’s web page
This page is a trove of information for students and instructors. Also, of facilities for instructors: You can look up your class meeting place in the schedule of courses, get your class list, file grades, send emails to your class (Angel also provides that affordance). The page is so useful that a link to it has been included in the left-side menu for all elementary teams pages.