NCTQ

Providing Guidance and Evaluation to Student Teachers

Supportive guidance and rigorous evaluation are the cornerstones of the student teaching experience. Without this critical advice and feedback, teacher candidates struggle to understand which aspects of their craft need the most improvement and students pay the price.

The following represents the ingredients for providing guidance and evaluation to student teachers. Click on the links below to learn more about how great student teaching programs provide teacher candidates with advice and feedback.

• Roles and responsibilities of the student teacher
  • Guidelines for increasing the student teacher's responsibilities
  • Involvement of the student teacher in a full range of activities
• A consistent, goal-based evaluation system for the student teacher
  • Goals are communicated in writing at the beginning of the experience
  • Evaluations are consistent with each other and provide feedback on individual goals
  • A graded culminating project is based on the same set of goals
• Guidance for cooperating teachers and supervisors on their roles as evaluators
  • Supervisors' observations provide written and oral feedback and occur at least five times
  • Evaluations integrate feedback from supervisors and cooperating teachers

Where strong examples are not available, NCTQ has suggested ways for programs to approach these key ingredients.