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Student-Teaching Responsibility

As you progress through your internship and develop teaching skills, there is a gradual increase in responsibility.

  • Get to know your students, including their backgrounds, cultures, and learning preferences.
  • Collaborate with your mentor teacher to develop lesson plans.
  • Plan your own lessons and lead-teaching for five-to-ten-days, depending on the semester.
  • Experiment with instruction techniques for diverse learners.
  • Implement visual aids, hands-on activities, and technology use.
  • Create a standards-based assessment system to evaluate your students’ progress and the efficacy of your lesson plans and instruction techniques.
  • Participate in study halls, faculty meetings, department meetings, in-service workshops, and parent-teacher conferences.
  • Become familiar with the district curriculum, as well as the school philosophy, policies, and administration, including the Maine Learning Results and the Common Core.

Strong School Partnerships

Our strong partnerships with regional school districts offer our students the opportunity to gain experience in either urban or suburban school settings. The superintendents, principals, and teachers in our partner districts value their partnerships with the University, and our alumni have a strong job placement rate in the districts where they have completed student-teaching internships.