Assessment of the Student Teacher

The assessment of the student teaching experience should be a continuous process, culminated by a final review at the end. This evaluation needs to be a three-way proposition, including the student teacher, the cooperating teacher, and the university consultant.

It is important for the student teacher to reflect on their performance realistically, with both affirmations and recommendations for growth. Hopefully, the student teacher will be made to feel, "I like teaching, and I can be successful if I continue growing." The student teacher should be fully aware of areas of personal growth so that they can continue to work towards developing skills, knowledge, and dispositions required for effective teaching.  

Because we believe letter grades at times detract from one's concern for the permanent quality of learning, the teacher education program faculty has adopted the Pass/Fail grading system for student teaching. A "Pass" (P) means that the student teaching performance was satisfactory. "Fail" (F) means that the student cannot be recommended for a teaching certificate. A "Pass" neither adds to nor subtracts from the student teacher's grade point average (GPA).

The final evaluation of the Profile of Student Teaching Performance completed by the university consultant and the cooperating teacher will be included in the EMU student's teacher education program file.