Washington County Community College

On-the-job Training

• Monthly OJT Hours
• Knowledge of Student Learners
  • Shows understanding of students as learners as well as people through observation of a single student a minimum of four times through the application of a checklist addressing each developmental domain, noting impressions and reflections and generating a child profile to share with parents
  • Knows strategies to create and sustain a comfortable and safe environment for learning and create a written description of the setting including schedule, duties and room arrangement
  • Define with examples the importance of reflective practice and generates reflection short essays regarding prior learning, discipline, health and safety, curriculum and ethical practice.
  • Define the nature of teaching as it relates to developing relationships with integrity and how that informs work with students
• Learning Environment
  • Demonstrate best practices in applying instructional methods and describe a teaching activity involving reading in which knowledge of Developmentally Appropriate Practice guided the activity
  • Identify and practice various engagement strategies including writing and distributing to parents of students a letter of introduction of yourself
  • Demonstrate knowledge of group work and discussions, held in a safe and supportive environment, including planning and executing a literacy activity involving reading out loud to students and reflect on lesson
• Curriculum
  • Understand and practice the five major Philosophies of Education
  • Apply Constructivism within instructional methods as a theory of learning
  • Demonstrate understanding and apply Assessments of and for learning
  • Apply summative and formative assessment practices
  • Employ reflective practices through participation in at least three planning sessions with staff members
  • Utilize an approach incorporating the nature of teaching-heart and integrity
  • Develop and utilize a teacher platform
  • Development of a major unit using all five dimensions of learning
• Foundations of Literacy
  • Understand the process of reading as a message getting/problem solving activity
  • Understand the K-12 Continuum of Literacy Development
  • Apply Guided Reading approaches-all levels
  • Utilize “Close” reading strategies
  • Understand whole to part approaches to reading instruction
  • Interpret assessment for all levels: All parts of Observation Survey
  • Understand vocabulary-effective reading of texts and study skills
  • Interpret case studies with analysis at all levels
• Teaching Exceptional Learners
  • Understand IDEA Principles and ESSA Every Student Succeeds Act
  • Demonstrate knowledge of FERPA and FAPE
  • Understand special education referral process-testing and identification
  • Be familiar with the continuum of Special Education services
  • Holds a Behavioral Health Professional certification
• Equity and Diversity
  • Can recognize and impart instruction to address culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds of students
  • Able to maintain practices that promote gender equity in the classroom
  • Using relevant case studies, can develop lesson plans to address the needs of culturally and linguistically diverse students
• Assessment
  • Understand that assessment drives curriculum and instruction
  • Understands and uses both formative and summative assessment strategies: assessment of and for learning
  • Understands various assessments in Reading: all parts of Observation Survey
  • Understands the various assessments that are used in the referral process in Special Education
  • Understands the use of Behavior Rating Scales in special education