The Preservice teacher: Your Professional Experience Role
During your placement in schools you should work as a co professional with your mentor classroom teacher.
Your role is to:
- discuss with your mentor teacher the specific requirements of the Professional Experience (practicum)
- reflect on and evaluate the school experiences
- contribute to collaborative team teaching by;
- becoming progressively involved in planning, programming and implementing. teaching/learning activities;
- keep a daily journal throughout your School experience;
- maintain a record of your teaching process – planning, implementation, assessment and evaluation using a portfolio for documenting the record of your teaching.
- implement the objectives and requirements of school experience including the respective (classroom) tasks and teaching activities.

