Field Placements
ABOUT FIELD PLACEMENTS
Field experience provides supervised opportunities for observing, teaching, and reflecting on the teacher’s role in the classroom and school settings.
Working under the direct supervision of a classroom teacher, the early field experience teacher candidate observes, assists in the classroom in basic instructional roles such as tutoring, mentoring and teaching lessons to individuals, pairs, and groups of students and instructs individual students and small groups as well as the entire class of students.
The School of Education at Monmouth University does not wait until or rely solely on the student teaching full semester experience to provide our teacher candidates with the opportunity to “learn from a pro.” From their acceptance into the program as sophomores, our students are given the opportunity to work with a number of experienced mentor teachers through clinical experience in diversified settings.
GUIDELINES FOR COOPERATING TEACHERS
- Help the field experience student to learn about the importance of a positive, engaging classroom environment.
- Encourage the field experience student to participate in various classroom activities and assist and support the teacher’s mission to improve the learning of all students.
- Involve the field experience student in teaching individual, small, and large groups of students with the emphasis on P-12 student engagement and achievement.
- Provide modeling, mentoring, direction, and feedback to the teacher candidate throughout the field experience.
- Provide information and advice about developing a positive classroom environment that focuses on student engagement, motivation, and the 21st century skills of creativity, critical thinking, collaboration, communication, and technology integration.
- Help the field experience student become acclimated to the school and classroom cultures.
- Promote professionalism and reflection.
- Help the field experience student to evaluate his/her teaching and learning and set goals for future teaching experiences.
- Reinforce the importance of time and attendance.
