Knowing My Basic Roles and Tasks: Teaching Internship 1/20/26, 4:23 PM
Knowing My Basic Roles and Tasks
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As a student teacher, most of the roles and tasks that are expected from you would be similar to
the responsibilities of your cooperating teacher. These tasks will enable you to have the
opportunity to understand the roles and responsibilities of a teacher and at the same time hone
your skills in teaching.
The following are your basic roles and tasks:
[Link] as much as you can by researching and observing. Learn about the vision-mission of
the school, its philosophy, and the goals for the students.
2. Observe classes. Determine how the teachers teach and relate to their students. Discover
how the teachers make their lesson plans. Try to see how they manage classes.
3. Create your lesson plans. Your cooperating teacher will assign you to develop your own
lesson plan. Do your best to come up with a good lesson plan following the format given to you
by your cooperating teacher.
4. Teach. You will be assigned to teach once your cooperating teacher determines that you are
ready. Prepare well your lesson plan, instructional materials, assessment tools, and other
things that you will need for your lesson. Do your best at all times.
5. Assist. Your cooperating teacher will expect you to help or assist in various activities inside or
outside the classroom. Have the initiative to extend your help. Whether you will be asked to
check papers or to decorate the bulletin board or classroom, accept these responsibilities
willingly as these would help you understand how it is to be a teacher.
6. Attend school activities. School activities enable you to understand the school culture. This
is where you will see the events that the school prioritizes and the values that teachers want
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the students to learn.
7. Meet your cooperating teacher or internship supervisor regularly. You need to know how
you are progressing in this internship. Meeting your cooperating teacher regularly through
post-observation conferences will allow you to see areas that you have done well and aspects
of your teaching that you need to improve on. Your internship supervisor, if there is any, can
also help you address some of your concerns.
8. Log in and log out. Attendance and punctuality are something that you need to value at all
times. You have to remember that your cooperating teacher and students rely on you to do
certain responsibilities. Make sure that you arrive early so that you can still talk to your
students and other people. Likewise, it is also important that you have ample time to prepare
for the tasks at hand.
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