Practicum+Field+Experience

=**Practicum Field Experience Timeline (This timeline outlines all events and required information for the practicum experience.)**=
 * **Practicum Field Experience Timeline Spring 2014**

=**Practicum Field Experience Handbook (Complete online handbook for practicum field experience.)**=
 * **The Practicum Field Experience Handbook for 2013-2014**

=**Practicum Contract (All practicum students must sign this official contract indicating their commitment to the ethics and guiding principles of the field experience.)**=
 * **Practicum Contract**

= Long Range Field Experience Instructional Planning Form This form is used jointly by the cooperating teacher and field experience candidate to plan the field experience instructional activities.=

=**Placement Information Sheet (This needs to be completed, printed and returned or scanned and emailed to your University Supervisor by the assigned date on the timeline.)**=
 * **Practicum Placement Information Form**

=**Student Observation Protocol Instrument:**=
 * This instrument is to be used by the practicum students as they observe within the classroom environment.**
 * **Observation Instrument**

= = =**Videotaped Lesson Process (Practicum students will videotape themselves teaching a lesson. The process for videotaping within the classroom must be followed as dictated by the district/school. All students should inquire as to the process for videotaping the lesson and how to obtain permission from students who may be videotaped during the lesson. The following forms explain the process to be followed and a letter from the Director of Teacher Education should the school ask that the student create and send the letter home to students. Some schools have their own letter and the student should use that letter.)**=


 * =Videotaping Process and Procedures=

= = =**Practicum Field Experience Binder (All practicum students complete an electronic binder within the Tk20 system. These handouts provide information on how to create the binder and how the binder is assessed by university supervisors.)**=
 * **How to Create a Field Experience Binder in Tk20**
 * **Grading Rubric for Practicum Field Experience Binder**

=**Practicum Observation Protocol: This evaluation tool is only completed for the final evaluation by the cooperating teacher and university supervisor.**= =**(This instrument is used by the University Supervisor and the Cooperating Teacher to observe the Practicum Candidate.)**=
 * **Practicum Observation Protocol (Final Only)**

=Time Log Sheets for Practicum Field Experience (Use these time logs for documenting your field experience hours in observing, assisting, and teaching.=
 * **Weekly Time Log Sheet for Field Experience**
 * **Time Summary Sheet for Field Experience**

=Remember, in order to classify as teaching hours, the lesson is planned by the candidate, pre-approved prior to teaching by the cooperating teacher, delivered by the candidate to the students either in small or large groups in the classroom or appropriate educational setting and is assessed and reflected upon by the candidate for possible improvements.=