The Cooperating Teacher Handbook

About the Book

Student teaching can be an overwhelming experience for both the student teacher and cooperating teacher. This Cooperating Handbook is designed to enable this experience to be a smooth one. The handbook is a guide for districts, schools, colleges of education to empower cooperating teachers to navigate the field experience with ease and confidence. It provides a step by step guide through the various stages of the student teaching experience. These include orienting the student teacher to the school, preparing the student teacher for the classroom, planning how to phase the student teacher into and out of lead teaching, providing feedback and writing letters of recommendation. Also provided is a list of web-based and other curriculum and management resources that might be helpful to the student teacher. The appendices section contains valuable checklists, sample schedules, and sample letters of recommendation that could be modified for your use. Each chapter has been simplified to make it easy to follow and implement.

About the Author

Johnson Obamehinti, a former Muslim, answered the call to salvation in Jesus Christ at the age of seventeen and the call to ministry as a missionary to America. He is an ordained minister of the gospel and his missionary efforts have given birth to the first church plant by the RCCG in Dallas TX, the first grassroots minority homeschooling organization in Texas, a radio ministry, mentoring program and an annual marriage celebration retreat. Johnson holds a B.S in Animal Science, M.S in Animal Nutrition and an MBA. Johnson lives in Texas with his wife and three children where he is also a Food Safety/Management Consultant.