Entry Conferences: A half hour session where the site coordinator intern and cooperating teacher are present, scheduled at the teachers convenience to discuss all aspects of a placement. We have constructed a packet that both the teacher and the intern receive (First Placement and Second Placement) that helps guide the conversation. All entry conferences should be held sometime within the first week of school.

Intro Lessons: These help the intern get to know the kids in their classroom or classes and should help the students to share about themselves and to get to know others in the group as well. These lessons can be ones interns have learned in orientation of from other sources. They should be written up in sub-proof lesson plan format and collected.

Personal and Documentation Check-Ins: Once a week an intern is visited by a site coordinator. When the intern is not teaching a discussion can be had on "settling in," setting goals for instruction, management of the room, academic course assignments (Action Plans), reading and writing in intern dialogue journals and lesson plans and talking with the cooperating teacher on how things are going is good use of time.

Observations of Teaching: Each site coordinator does three Formal (NCR paper) observations (or more) of each intern. The goal over the course of the placement is to see everything that the intern has been involved in or responsible for meetings, specialized groups, project work, assessment opportunities, direct instruction, one on one assistance. This is to compare impressions with cooperating teachers and to do the mid year review, make decisions for certification and to write letters of recommendation.