Tips for New College Partners

General:

• Joint TC planning meetings (Conference call)
• Have an initial dinner meeting for instructors
• Maintain a good line of communication
• Ask the Teacher Cadet instructors what you can do to help them
• Keep a log of activities throughout the year for your End-of-Year Activities Report

Instructional:

• Creative technology use
• Personal video delivery service
• For college credit, tie additional assignments to the field experience

Partnership:

• Use Teaching Fellows as ambassadors to the Teacher Cadet classes
• Have an “anchor” service learning partnership/activity (Ex. ACF-Book Distribution with the Rolling Readers Program)
• Have FEA plan College Day for the Cadets. Allow them to plan and implement all activities throughout the day
• Showcase majors at TC College Day; Have activity “centers”
• Have a TC conference where Cadets do presentations as they would at a professional educators’ conference
• Promote and attend the End-of-Year Teacher Cadet Celebration held by the district with all of their TC sites or by individual sites

Greater Collegiate Community:

• Share TC standards with COE professors and create a Speaker’s Bureau to address topics
• Work with the registration office to get deadlines established for TC registration information

last updated August 9, 2010