- Provide teacher role models with whom the teacher candidate may identify.
- Provide the teacher candidate with a gradual induction into teaching through pre-student teaching and student teaching.
- Facilitate integration and application of educational theory and teaching methodology in student teaching.
- Provide learning experiences in which the teacher candidate can sharpen and refine his/her skills in relation to the ten Standards of Effective Practice (see Section 5.43 Appendix C).
- Provide opportunities for the teacher candidate to engage in co-curricular, extra-curricular, and other school activities in which he/she may ultimately have responsibility as a teacher.
- Provide the candidate with exposure to a variety of instructional approaches, i.e., differentiated instruction, small group/large group, co-teaching.
- Provide learning experiences in which the teacher candidate receives immediate and constructive feedback from the cooperating teacher and the university supervisor.
- Provide an opportunity for the teacher candidate, university supervisor, and cooperating teacher to assess the candidate's readiness for individual responsibility in the classroom.
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