Pedagogy Assessment Information
During the Student Teaching experience at Central Washington University, you will work with both the Cooperating Teachers and students to ensure that all programmatic and state-mandated standards are met.
You should visit each student teacher at least every week-and-a-half. Some of these visits will be more formal than others, but you will conference with your students and Cooperating Teachers frequently over the course of the experience. Both you and the Cooperating Teacher will work to ensure that students have developed the appropriate knowledge, skills and dispositions to meet programmatic and state-mandated certification requirements.
The Final Student Teaching Evaluation is the programmatic document that will indicate whether or not a student has successfully completed the Student Teaching experience as a step toward certification. This instrument is numerically scaled 1 to 5.
In addition, the Pedagogy Assessment Instrument, a state-mandated document, will be administered twice during the course of Student Teaching to ensure compliance with state standards and competencies. The items on this instrument will be noted as ‘Met,’ ‘Not Met,’ or ‘Not Observed.’ All items must be ‘Met’ before a grade of Satisfactory can be issued for Student Teaching and before CWU will recommend students for certification.
For additional information on the Pedagogy Assessment Instrument, please visit http://www.k12.wa.us/certification/profed/pubdocs/PedagogyAssessment.pdf