This week, I will complete and present my first case study as an MAT@USC TESOL student. In the TESOL track, performing a case study is one of the major requirements for completing Educ. 501: Introduction for English as a New Language. The case study involves observing and interviewing an English language learner and interviewing his or her teachers, parents and …
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So, you want to be a guiding teacher…
The MAT@USC program is unique in its approach to student teaching (also known as “guided practice”), mostly because it cannot ask its guided practice professors to visit teacher candidates on a regular basis to observe. Instead, the teacher candidate and the guiding teacher (also known as “cooperating teacher” or “master teacher”) feel the professor’s presence when the teacher candidate …
