Host/Cooperating Teacher Forms and Materials
Below are the forms needed for host/cooperating teachers. Please reach out to Vicki Fischer (vfischer [at] gustavus.edu (vfischer[at]gustavus[dot]edu)) with questions about the forms.
1. W 9 Form: If you have not hosted a Gustavus teacher candidate in the last two years, please complete the linked W9. You can upload it securely to Vicki Fischer (vfischer [at] gustavus.edu (vfischer[at]gustavus[dot]edu)), Education Department Administrative Assistant, at Secure Link, or you can mail it to Vicki Fischer at 800 College Avenue West, St. Peter, MN 56082.
Please complete the first page, and remember to sign and date it in Section II: Certification.
2. Student Teaching Handbook: This handbook includes program guidance for the student teaching professional semester.
3. Adult Learner Coaching Strategies Course: State law requires that cooperating teachers complete the adult learner coaching strategies course in order to host teacher candidates in the student teaching semester. This brief training only needs to be completed once in a career.
4. Candidate Preservice Assessment of Student Teaching (CPAST): Gustavus uses the CPAST as the state-required performance assessment for teacher candidates. The college supervisor will provide more information about using the CPAST tool at the triad meetings.
5. Cooperating Teacher Background Information: Please complete this form regarding your teaching preparation and experience by the end of the placement. This form can be completed anytime.
6. Standards of Effective Practice (SEP) Assessment: Please complete this evaluation of the teacher candidate online at the end of the placement.
7. Evaluation of the Student Teacher Program: Please provide feedback on your experience with our program at the end of the placement.
8. Letter of Recommendation: To support your teacher candidate in their job search, please type a letter of recommendation on your school letterhead highlighting the strengths you observed in your work with them. Please scan your signed letter and email it to Vicki Fischer (vfischer [at] gustavus.edu (vfischer[at]gustavus[dot]edu)) at the end of the placement.
College Supervisor Forms and Materials
Before are the forms needed from college supervisors during the student teaching semester.
1. Diversity Awareness Assessment, Professionalism Assessment, and Standards of Effective Practice (SEP) Assessment: At the end of the semester, please complete these assessments on the teacher candidates you are supervising. You do not need to complete the assessment on candidates you supervised in the first half of the semester only.
2. Letter of Recommendation: To support your teacher candidate in their job search, please type a letter of recommendation on Gustavus letterhead highlighting the strengths you observed in your work with them. Please scan your signed letter and email it to Vicki Fischer (vfischer [at] gustavus.edu (vfischer[at]gustavus[dot]edu)) at the end of the placement.
3. Mileage Form: Please make a copy of this mileage form and use it to request mileage reimbursement for student teaching observation travel. Submit this form to Vicki Fischer at vfischer [at] gustavus.edu (vfischer[at]gustavus[dot]edu). You may submit monthly or once at the end of the semester.