Student

4 Teaching
Learning Tasks

Getting Acquainted with My Cooperating Teacher

Name of Student Teacher: ______________________ Date Submitted: _________

Year and Section: _____________________________ Course: ________________

Desired Learning Objectives

 Get acquainted with my Cooperating Teacher

 Listen and respond effectively to the expectations of my Cooperating teacher
 Enumerate my responsibilities based on the given expectations
 Demonstrate knowledge of policies and procedures that provide safe and secure
learning.
Essential Questions

 What is the role of the Cooperating Teacher in my internship program?

 What expectations of me are given by my Cooperating Teacher?
 How shall I respond effectively to these expectations?
 What are the policies and procedures given by my CT on providing safe and secure
learning environment
Understandings
Name of the Cooperating Teacher
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Degree _____________________________________________________________________________________________________
Area of Specialization ____________________________________________________________________________________
Years of Teaching Experience ___________________________________________________________________________
The Cooperating Teacher plays a very vital role in the successful implementation of the
Teaching Internship Program.
The Cooperating Teacher (CT) is defined as a teacher with three years of teaching
experience who acts as a mentor in the teaching internship program in the area in which the
teaching internship is earning her degree. The CT serves as a model in all aspects of teaching
and learning.

 He/She engages you to work collaboratively and productively to enrich your classroom
activities.
 He/She allows you to reflect critically and creatively in your learning experiences to
ensure that you accomplish more and do better in your future activities.
 He/She shares interactive and innovative teaching strategies and methods you have not
learned and are not familiar with to make your classroom activities highly engaging.
 He/She gives second advice about the good/best practices in teaching and learning.
 He/She gives teaching tips and how to do things in the most effective and efficient ways.
 He/She suggests instructional resources to make your classroom activities more
meaningful and rewarding.
My Performance Tasks
Performance Task 1: Complete the matrix below. Choose only three (3) of the most important
expectations given by your CT.

Expectations of My Cooperating teacher My Responsibilities

What is the impact of these expectations to me as a teaching intern?

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Performance Task 2: Cite the three (3) most important policies and procedures given by your
CT to provide safe and secure learning environments to your learners.

Policies and Procedures How do I respond to these? My plans of

action…
1.

2.

3.

What is the impact of these policies and procedures to student learning?

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Performance Task 3: My Cooperating Teacher in my role model in the following virtues. Cite
and give situations on how these virtues are applied?

Virtue: Picture of your CT

Application:

Virtue:
Application:

Virtue:
Application:

Virtue:
Application:

Virtue:
Application:

My Assessment Task
Choose the letter of the correct answer.
1. Who is expected to act as a role model and serve as a mentor of student interns?
A. Cooperating Teacher
B. Cooperating Principal
C. Practicum Supervisor
D. Practicum Trainer
2. The Cooperating Teacher plays a crucial role in _________________________.
A. stating instructional outcomes
B. providing classroom activities
C. constructing modes of assessment
D. ensuring the success of the internship program
3. Which are other activities that the CT can provide?
I. Visit other classes at the same
II. Get to know other teachers in the level
III. Get to know the school staff and become familiar with the schools.
A. I only B. II only C. III only D. I, II and III
4. Which is the most important area where my CT can be of help in my internship program?
A. Honing my skills as a teacher
B. Ensuring good classroom management
C. Providing a safe and secure learning environment
D. Developing my personal and professional competencies
5. To assess my performance as an intern, my CT shall ___________________.
A. I only B. II only C. III only D. I, II and III

My Learning Artifacts
Write an appreciation letter to your Cooperating Teacher for accepting you as his/her teaching
intern/ Let him/her read this and request him/her to sign your letter.

A Letter to My Cooperating Teacher

What is the impact if this letter to me as teaching intern?
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What was the reaction of my CT to this letter? (You may ask him/her to write on the space
provided)
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Let’s Write a Journal

Journal Entry # 4: Getting Acquainted with My Cooperating Teacher. Your entry
should contain your understanding and reflection on the given concept.
My Scoring Rubrics

INDICATORS Meets Approaching Meet Does Not Meet

Standards of Standard of Acceptable Acceptable
Excellence Excellence Standard Standard

4 3 2 1
CRITERIA

Performance  Has all the  Has some  Has minimal  No aspects of

Tasks aspects of aspects of work aspects of work meets
work that that exceed work that level of
exceed level level of meet level of expectations
of expectation expectation  Has errors,
expectation.  Demonstrates  With some omissions and
 Shows solid errors and misconceptions
exemplary performance MASTERY is
performance and not
understanding thorough

Assessment With 5 correct With 4 correct With 3 correct With less than 3
Tasks answers answers answers correct answers

Learning The pieces/s of The piece/s of The piece/s of The piece/s of

Artifacts evidence of evidence of learning evidence of evidence of learning
learning is/are is/are aligned with learning is/are is/are NOT aligned
aligned with SOME of the learning aligned with with the learning
learning outcome ONE of the outcomes.
outcomes. learning
outcomes
Creativity and The learning The learning tasks The learning The learning tasks
Resourcefulness tasks are done are done creatively tasks are done are poorly done and
very creatively and resourcefully. quite creatively need improvement
and and
resourcefully resourcefully

Submission of The assigned The assigned The assigned The assigned

Requirements learning tasks learning tasks are learning tasks learning tasks are
are submitted on submitted a day after are submitted 2 submitted 3 days or
or before the the deadline days after the more after the
deadline. deadline deadline.

MY TOTAL SCORE

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Signature of Practicum Supervisor