MLL 579
Supervised Student Teaching and Follow-Up of Teachers
Spring 2010
MLL 579 Supervised Student Teaching and Follow-Up of Teachers. 2 hours.
Laboratory. Mr. McFerron will visit each student teacher at least once during the
professional semester. Additional visits may occur when more support and/or supervision
is desired, either by the content advisor or the student. Concurrent enrollment in the
professional semester is required. Offered on a Pass-Fail basis only.
Course Objectives:
 The student teacher will work cooperatively with the supervising teacher to
develop and present language lessons (Spanish or French) using content at the
appropriate level for the K-12 student.
 The student will demonstrate mastery of their primary content area.
 The student teacher should have a variety of experiences in three main categories:
curriculum development, instruction, and assessment. The student teacher should
have the opportunity to practice developing their skills in these three processes in
both their primary licensure content and in any additional content in which they
plan to obtain licensure.
Course Requirements
Meet at designated times with other members of the FACS Professional
Semester Class and the advisor. (Required 3 meetings) Meetings are
valued at 50 points each.
Turn in a set of lesson plans (minimum eight plans) developed and used
during the semester with their students. Plans should be submitted via email to Mr. McFerron. Plans are worth 20 points each.
A vote in the College of Education defeated the requirement of a
passing grade in order to graduate. Therefore, you are not required to
pass the content exam in order to graduate from PSU. However, you are
required to pass that exam to obtain licensure. Please take it at your
earliest possible date, and be sure to request study materials and spend
time on preparing for the exam. If you fail the exam, you can pay to
retake it.
Testing dates can be obtained in Rozanne Sparks’s office for the coming
year.
Lesson plans are due on the following dates: Each plan is worth 20 points. These plans
need to be sent on a timely basis.
Date Due
Jan 20
Topic
Lesson Plan 1:
Topic of your
choosing. Edit a
lesson plan used by
your cooperating
teacher.
Feb 28
Lesson Plans 2-5:
Topics of your
choice
April 15
Lesson Plans 6-8:
Topics of your
choice
Notes
Following a lesson that you observed your cooperating
teacher teach, rewrite the lesson plan and address any
areas that you’d like to modify. Perhaps you know of
an exercise for anticipatory set that would be perfect,
or you observed some confusion on the part of the
students that you think you could alleviate. In the
event that your cooperating teacher did not provide a
lesson plan, you’ll need to start from scratch and use
the template provided by Mr. McFerron. Following the
plan, write a brief reflection on the changes that you
would make and why.
Depending upon how soon you take over the classes,
you may utilize either lesson elements used by your
cooperating teacher teach (as above) or lessons that
you have actually taught. When you submit your own
lesson plans, follow it with a reflection on how you
would change it next time you use it.
Submit lesson plans that you have actually taught.
When you submit your own lesson plans, follow it
with a reflection on how you would change it next
time you use it.