Source : TESSA
TESSA (Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa) provides collaboratively developed open educational resources (OERs) for teachers and teacher educators to support active learning methods and reflective practice.
School Experience Co-ordinators or lecturers visiting student teachers during their school experience are the primary audience for this Toolkit.
It contains resources that are beneficial to the experience of student teachers and aims to support them in using TESSA materials, which can encourage the use of active learning approaches.
Throughout this resource, you will find activities which you can complete individually or in a group of supervisors. You are encouraged to assess your own needs and identify the resources in the Toolkit which can best address them. It is suggested that first you skim through the items, selecting relevant tools where necessary.
It is suggested you use a notebook to engage with the activities in this resource.
The Toolkit can also be used as a resource material when you are working with student teachers, preparing them for school experience. In addition, it can be used as part of training for mentors, school inspectors, head teachers and other educationalists.
This version was written with a group of educators from Zambian Colleges of Education, the Ministry of General Education and The Open University (UK) at workshops in Kabwe during 2018–19. All Government colleges of education, including Chalimbana University, participated in the development of this Toolkit.
Toolkit objectives :
to serve as a guide for lecturers visiting students during school experience supervision and mentoring of the student teacher
to make the school experience interesting, collaborative and successful for the student teacher, visiting lecturer and cooperating school
to move the school experience monitoring role towards mentoring, supporting and assisting the student teacher (a more learner-centred approach), rather than merely assessment
to support standardised high-quality supervision
to provide a set of tools (published under an open licence) to support the above, which can be adapted and used in different environments and contexts.
Other useful resources
At the end of this Toolkit is a list of further reading and resources on the topic. It is not essential reading but may help you to enhance your understanding of your role and active learning pedagogy.
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