In accordance to TAC 228.35(d) all teacher candidates must observe a variety of educational settings with diverse student populations including observation, modeling, and demonstration of effective practices to improve student learning. While conducting the 30 clock hours of field-based experience observations and interactive activities teacher candidates note the following;
Field-Based Experience observations and activities must be conducted in authentic school settings in a public school accredited by the TEA or other school approved by the TEA for this purpose;
Instruction must be conducted by content certified teachers;
Classrooms must have actual students in classrooms/instructional settings;
Instruction must consist of content or grade-level specific classrooms/instructional settings; and
Teacher candidates must complete reflections of the observation.
The rule also allows for candidates to complete 15 hours of video observations and 15 hours of field based observations.
Please complete the following to meet this requirement;
1. Please watch Videos 1-6 and fill out form "Planning".
2. Please watch videos 7-13 and fill out form titled, "Instruction".
3. Please watch videos 14-22 and fill out form titled," Learning/ Classroom Environment".
ALL videos must be seen and forms filled out to qualify properly for this 15 online video option.
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NOTE: TEA has approved EPP's to provide an ADDITIONAL 15 hours of online videos, IN LIEU of In-Person observations. This is due to the COVID-19 issue our world is facing.
You will find the "additional"15 hours in the lower 3 plans, in the Plans section of this course. Please note the FORMS for each of these particular plans are DIFFERENT from the "original" 15-hour forms. Please utilize the PROPER forms provided. Each also has specific directions. Please follow them.
NOTE: if you have already completed the 15 hours of "original" online videos and have turned them in, please only complete the "IN LIEU" videos to complete your 30-hour requirement.
SUBMIT your FORMS to observations@teacherbuilder.net.
In the subject line: FULL NAME, DOB or TEA number