Internship I TCED 4738

During Internship I, the interns will spend all day each Wednesday of the public school semester in a supervised field experience at one of the designated Professional School campuses. (NOTE: Courses offered at 4:00 p.m. on Wednesdays may not be taken during Internship I, as they may interfere with Internship I’s course requirements.) The intern will be under the supervision of an Internship Team consisting of: Center for Professional Development of Teachers, the PDS personnel, the university supervisor, district supervisor, and mentor teacher with the corporation of the campus principal. The Internship Team will serve as the intern’s teacher, supervisor, and mentor throughout the two semesters of internship. The University Supervisor is teacher of record for this course.

This experience will consist of, but not limited to:

• Internship I Orientation: this meeting is held in May or December the semester before entering Internship I at UHCL. The meeting will be held during the week after finals and is a required meeting. Failure to attend may result in the intern being withdrawn from Internship I.
• Adhere to required attendance requirements: follow the mentor teacher’s daily and weekly schedule
• Meet requirements to be eligible for placement on the assigned district’s substitute list
• Become familiar with and adhere to the Code of Ethics and Standard Practices for Texas Educators, UHCL Student Code Conduct
• Demonstrate the professional attributes and dispositions stated in the SOE Professional Attributes and SOE Disposition Policy
• Become familiar and adhere to school and district protocol, rules and policies
• Attend in-services, faculty meetings, team meetings and seminars both at PDS and UHCL, as scheduled
• Experience a variety of classroom settings through required observations
• Lesson planning and implement lesson plans with assigned classroom students
• Small group or individual tutoring
• Technology training
• Classroom Management training and implementation
• Develop an e-portfolio based on the School of Education’s Initial Certification Standards

Suggestions for Success in Internship I from former Internship I candidates:

1. Take a light course schedule
2. Calm down and chill out, don’t panic. The e-portfolio is not a caustic deadly agent. You will survive.
3. Collaborate
4. Be active in the classroom. Don’t sit in the back of the class and “veg” out.
5. Attend the first day of school. You will need to see rules and procedures being taught.
6. Establish with the students that you are a teacher.
7. Travel with your students to music, P.E., library --- you will see another aspect of them.
8. Be realistic about your expectations in the classroom.
9. Never throw away or delete anything (especially your stuff from your methods classes)