I salute the flag of the state of NEW MEXICO, the Zia symbol of perfect friendship among united cultures.

WELCOME, Prestudent Teachers!
Charlotte Bradshaw and I look forward to guiding and coaching you from the side as you continue your preservice teaching preparation. Visit as many classrooms as you can, tutoring, assisting, substitute teaching to be able to choose a teacher to work with who matches your learning, management and teaching style.

PHASE II: May 4 (post due)

Please post your reflection of teaching this week and dialogue with your peers.

PHASE II: April 27 (post due)

Please post your reflection of teaching this week and dialogue with your peers.

PHASE II: April 20 (post due)

Please post your reflection of teaching this week and dialogue with your peers.

PHASE II: April 13 (post due)

Please post your reflection of teaching this week and dialogue with your peers.

PHASE II: April 6 (post due)

Please post your reflection of teaching this week and dialogue with your peers.

PHASE II: March 30 (post due)

Please post your reflection of teaching this week and dialogue with your peers.

Welcome to your Classrooms

Dear Prestudent Teachers,
You will be settling into your respective classrooms getting to know your students and Host Teachers better. Please be proctive, offering to help out when you can and anticipating to help out, assist and team teach when you can. You are a learning guest in this classroom and we are most appreciative of your Host Teachers who have agreed to work with you during your Phase II of your prestudent teaching experience. Ask your Host Teacher which subject they would like for you to teach. Your participation in their classroom is not an interruption of their teaching schedule so please fit into the flow of their routines. Host teachers will be signing off on your Phase II Log of Hours. ALSO, thank you for assisiting your Host Teachers with registering on the FSP as soon as possible. (They will register as Cooperating Teachers.)

Please post your created Lesson Plan #1 once your Host Teacher has critiqued it and offered suggestions. Please be receptive to their valuable feedback and ask questions when you need clarification. Lesson plan format is up to you and you may want to use the format of your Host Teacher. During teaching of your Lesson plan #2, please remember to videotape one lesson, reflect on it alone with your Host Teacher and post your reflection (not videotape) to your web page. Your 10 day Unit Plan should also be posted to your webpage. Please have your lesson plans displayed (for your teacher or principal) every time you teach, which is the professional thing to do.

Remember to take time to team teach with your Host Teacher before you begin taking on a subject by yourself. Your 10 days of teaching are the culmination at the end of your Phase II experience. Take time to learn the classroom routines, student names and subject standards as you scaffold to your capstone 10 days of consistent teaching in one subject. Dialgogue in written format (emailing, chatting, etc.) with your Host Teachers about issues, concerns that may arise at least once.

Your Host Teacher will observe you and conduct a formal observation during tyour 10 day teaching time. Although optional, you may invite your principal to observe you and write a formal observation of your teaching.

I will be scheduling to visit you during your 10 days of teaching. We will schedule our final conferences with your Host Teachers during the first week of MAY at your schools.
Plan for our Student Teaching Orientation on Tuesday,
May 8, 1-3pm.

In relative order of occurence:
School Scavenger Hunt
Create Lesson Plan I (critiqued by Host Teacher)
Teach Lesson Plan II
Video taping & Reflection
Dialogue Journal entries with Host Teacher (at least one)
10 Day Teaching Plan
Final Teaching Reflection
Teaching Philosophy
Final Assessment Conference
Maintain Observation Log (42 total hours)

Happy Teaching and looking forward to visiting you!
Frances

Thank you, Mr. Kasper, CCSD HR Director

We appreciated the time Mr. Kasper spent with us at the CCSD Administrative office, Feb. 14, 2012. Since Lorien, April and Whitney are interested in teaching in Kirtland Schools, it was helpful to meet Mr. Kasper prior to our student teaching experience.

Thank You, Mr. Kasper, for your time and expertise. Please enjoy our photo thank you below.
April, Whitney, Lorien (in absentia) and Frances

Kirtland School Visits

Thank you to the Principals, Teachers and Support Staff of Kirtland Elementary & Kirtland Middle Schools on Feb. 7, 2012.
As our UNM prestudent teachers are invited into your schools and classrooms, they will be better acquainted with various types of classrooms in requesting their FALL 2012 student teaching placement.

Enjoy our Photo Thank You below.

Photo Gallery KES (Kirtland Elementary School)


Photo Gallery KMS (Kirtland Middle School)