Student Teaching and the edTPA Presentation

• Meet Cooperating Teacher as soon as possible
• Research the school (Wisconsin DPI report card)
• Plan during the summer
• Organize your time
• To-do list breakdown
• Don't Procrastinate
• Use spare time to work in school
• Know your students
• Go over IEP's with CT and the Special Education Teacher (Elementary general teacher as well)
• Learn names
• Journal reflections
• This helps with commentaries!!!
• Thoughtfulness in the edTPA
• Videotaping
• Get the video/photo release form out ASAP
• Film as much as you can
• Do a practice run with elementary students
• Use your own camera or check IT person at the school
• (Bring extra batteries)
• Practice with ipad and other functions to see if it works
• Do what you are most comfortable with
• Watch video the day that you do it
• Start commentary right away
• Look at rubric while writing commentary
• Cooperating Teacher
• CT is there to cheer and support you
• They want to help you succeed and find the daily routine
• Learning Community of fellow student teachers
•  Take advantage in sharing experiences
• Learn from mistakes!
• Teach a couple lessons before edTPA
• Also do edTPA before headweeks (teaching every class of every day)
• Integrate own style of teaching
• ALWAYS BE POSITIVE
• Be prepared
• Be Yourself
• Be organized
• Be involved
• Attend IEP meetings
• Observe other teachers
• Go to extracurriculurs
• Build rapport with staff and administrators
• Be reflective 
• Journal 5 or 10 minutes
• What was taught
• Frustrations, positives, etc.
• Be consistent with rules
• Firm, fair, and friendly
• Some days you will love it, some days you will wonder if you're cut out for it
• Be confident
• Be professional
• Never be late
• Do not call in sick unless necessary 
• Speak the part and be positive
• Don't gossip
• Take constructive criticism
• Be healthy and sane
• Get sleep
• Students need your 100%
• Be thankful
• Write thank you notes to CT, impactful staff, principal, etc.

Union Member Presentation

Picasso's Dog
(Why? Because.)

• Creativity is what our country is all about
• Elephant in the room
• Fear of what could really happen to the schools and administration
• How do we overcome this fear to WORK TOGETHER?
• New model:
• Pay teachers according to measurements of student learning
• Unions:
•  Democratic support
• Perceptions of unions (POSITIVE)
• Ended child labor
• Raised wages and created 8 hour days
• Teddy Roosevelt and his progressivism
• Better work place
•  Shirt waste fires 
• Unions helped people get to middle class
• Made progress during 20th C
• Perceptions of unions (NEGATIVE)
• Keeping people that should be fired
• People think unions are only democratic
• $700-$1000 in union dues
• Differences between MN and WI
• 3 years to get tenure in both

• Common borders, heritage, election turnouts, etc.
• MN more liberal
• Raising taxes
• Empowering unions
• Legalizing same-sex marriage
• Embracing Obamacare
• WI more conservative
• Cutting taxes
• Curbing unions
• Expanding school vouchers
• (private and charter schools)
• Rejecting funding under Obamacare
•  Collective Bargaining vs. District Policy
• Wages or Compensation
• WI still has unions
• Power decreased
• Limited on cost of living increase (statistics on inflammation vs. salary)
• MN
• As long as school board agrees with it there is no limit on how high wages can be
• Hours of Work
• District may or may not put this into your contract
• Collective bargaining gives prep time
• Employee benefits
• Days off, etc.
• Supervision
• Don't have to supervise before and after school
• Ask to see district policies or master agreements if one gets a job
• Qualifications
• Can't make you teach something or assign something to you if one is not qualified
• Training and skills
• Workshop days, extra classes, etc.
• Job functions
• Termination procedure
• Clear details
• Governor Walker wants to get rid of this
• Right to your view on issues
• Sick leave/Personal leave
• Collective bargaining can mean different things for different states
• Collective bargaining is banned in some states (mostly Southern) 
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• Unions are generally found in the North
• Average Salary of Teachers by State
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• Average of 78.2% of students graduate from high school