Co-Teaching

At CSU, Chico co-teaching is defined as two teachers (mentor teacher and credential candidate) working together with groups of students, sharing the planning, organization, delivery and assessment of instruction, as well as the physical space. Co-teaching in student teaching provides a rigorous yet supportive experience for teacher candidates, allows cooperating teachers to remain actively engaged in the classroom, and enhances the quality of learning for P-12 students.

Qualifications & Responsibilities

• Bilingual Cooperating Teachers - Multiple Subject and Single Subject
• Concurrent Cooperating Teachers - Multiple Subject and Single Subject
• Education Specialist Cooperating Teachers
• Multiple Subject Cooperating Teachers
• Single Subject Cooperating Teachers

Program handbooks and rubrics are in the Supervision Toolbox.

10-Hour Initial Training, Course Networking Modules & 1 Unit of PD

The School of Education, in partnership with the California Council on Teacher Education, offers a free, online professional development orientation for district-employed partner teachers through CourseNetworking. The training is designed to prepare mentors for the role of guiding and coaching teacher candidates and interns in the clinical practice experience while meeting the Program Standards established by the CA Commission on Teacher Credentialing. Program Standard 3D stipulates that district employed supervisors complete a minimum of 10 hours of initial orientation to the program curriculum, about effective supervision approaches such as cognitive coaching, adult learning theory, and current content-specific pedagogy and instructional practices. District employed supervisors must remain current in the knowledge and skills for candidate supervision and program expectations. The Chico State CourseNetworking modules are one way to meet the CTC Commission requirement.

There is an option for District-Employed Supervisors (i.e. Cooperating Teachers and Local Support Teachers) to apply the 10 hours of instruction completed through the free, online training to a one-unit Clinical Practice Professional Development EDUC 825 course offered through Chico State Professional & Continuing Education. To be eligible for the one unit of academic credit, enrollees must complete a total of 15 hours of instruction: the 10 hours completed in the free, online training, plus five additional hours of instruction/professional development. There is a cost of $75 for the academic unit.