RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE UNIVERSITY SUPERVISOR

1. Assist students in preparing for their student teaching assignments.
2. Assure student teaching assignments are appropriate.
3. Meet with the cooperating teacher(s) in each school to answer questions and/or clarify information shortly after the student teacher arrives in the school.
4. Meet with the student teacher to answer questions and/or clarify information before he/she begins the student teaching assignment.  Meet with him/her again shortly after he/she arrives at the student teaching school assignment to further clarify information and answer questions.
5. Monitor each placement carefully to prevent problems, concerns, or conflicts.
6. Visit the school at least four times to observe the student teacher.  Complete Student Teaching Formative Evaluation forms during each visit (see appendix).
7. Confer with the student teacher and the cooperating teacher about your observations and the student’s progress in the school setting.
8. Meet with relevant school administrators.  Gather information about the student teacher’s progress, and resolve any concerns about the student teaching experience and relationships between the school and university. 
9. Ask cooperating teachers to share their Student Teaching Formative Evaluation forms with you.
10. Assure that cooperating teachers complete both the dispositions document and the Summative Evaluation of Student Teaching and Teacher Recommendation forms and submit them to the University. 
11. Adjunct faculty supervisors of UMM students must also complete and submit the Student Teaching Formative Evaluations, dispositions document, and the Summative Evaluation of Student Teaching and Teacher Recommendation forms for inclusion in the student’s file (see appendix).
12. Advise each student teacher on lesson and unit planning.  Advise the student teacher on the assessment requirement.
13. Ask to see lesson plans for the day you visit and also all other lesson plans created by the student teacher.  Ask to see these plans each time you visit.  Note that one lesson plan per day must be self assessed.  Share observations and insights.
14. Remind student teachers to videotape a lesson early in their student teaching and again near the end of the experience.  Ask the student to share his/her observations/insights.
15. Ask to read the reflective journal each time you visit the student teacher.  Share your observations and insights.
16. Remind students to keep student projects/ bulletin boards, lessons, photographs and other materials for the Education Exposition to be held during the professional development class. 
17. Remind students to add artifacts to their Standards of Effective Practice portfolio, which will be assessed daily during the professional development course.
18. Submit a grade of S (satisfactory) or N (not satisfactory) for the student’s University of Minnesota, Morris transcript.