Roles of the Leadership Team

Serves as master teacher, mentor, coach, and professional resource for the pre-service teacher intern.
Serves as the public school cooperating teacher, being responsible for the completion of state and university forms impacting graduation and licensure.
Analyzes practices and the consequences of such practices to improve instruction, utilizing inquiry wherever applicable.
Participates in efforts to make relevant reforms in school practices, structures and cultures.
Participates in seminars between and among teacher interns, clinical faculty, university supervisors, and others involved in the partnership school efforts.
Serves as intellectual resource to interns, colleagues, and university faculty.

Supervises and functions as a collegial coach with partnership teachers and administrators for site-based interns;
Ensures clarity in the relationship between theory and practice so that each informs and shapes the other;
Assists in the development of professional school-based cultures and the emergence of a compatible and legitimate university preparation environment;
Observes and evaluates the interns' performance during the year/semester;
Serves as an intellectual resource for public school partners through sharing of expertise and provision of articles and research information.

Oversees the process for identification of quality placement sites for teacher interns;
Participates in PDS/PS scheduled meetings, orientation training, and staff development activities;
Serves as an intellectual resource for teachers, university facilitators, and interns.

Participates with the Graduate School of Education faculty in planning professional development activities and addresses other issues related to the philosophy, goals, and objectives of the PDS program;
Coordinates activities at the PDS/PS school related to placement of teacher interns and acts as liaison between the clinical faculty, teacher interns, and university faculty;
Disseminates and collects information pertinent to clinical faculty and teacher interns as necessary and completes/returns paperwork as required by the program;
Serves as intellectual resource to interns, colleagues, and university faculty.

Delivers, analyzes, and reflects on effective instruction and participates in observations, conferences,and lesson redesign to improve instructional outcomes;
Pursues deeper understanding of the relationship between theory and informed practice and between school culture and the learning environment;
Understands and is instrumental in developing and utilizing coaching plans focused on growth;
Utilizes student assessment data to inform effective instructional practices focused on learning outcomes;
Participates as a team member in seminars and school reform initiatives at the school.

Elementary Education PK-6