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Partnership Teacher Roles and Responsibilities
Partnership teachers discuss and refine their roles and responsibilities.
The Partnership Teacher serves as mentor, coach and professional resource for the Teacher Intern. This master teacher…
- Serves as the public school cooperating teacher, being responsible
for the completion of state and university forms impacting graduation
and certification;
- Serves as mentor and coach for interns, using the learning-centered
supervision (coaching) model, and serves as an intellectual resource
for other partners;
- Participates in efforts to make relevant reforms in school practices,
structures and cultures;
- Analyzes practices and the consequences of such practices to
improve instruction, utilizing inquiry wherever applicable;
- Participates in site seminars between and among teacher interns,
partnership teachers, university supervisors, and others involved in
the partnership school efforts;
- Serves as an intellectual and professional resource for interns,
other partnership teachers and university supervisors;
- Participates in all PDS professional development activities associated
with the role (i.e., models learning-centered supervision, the application
of technology in the classroom, INTASC Standards, etc.);
- Has at least three years of experience as a successful teacher;
- Participates in PDS Orientation Training, on-going professional
development conferences and extended PDS trainings.