CSN Education Department - Alternative Field Observation Activities Packet

Greetings Future Educator,

One of the most rewarding aspects of EDU 201, 202, or 203 is the opportunity you’ll have to
observe in a school classroom where students are actively engaged in learning. Each of these
three CSN courses require students to complete a 10 hour "Field Observation" in a Clark
County public school. If CDC Guidelines for Covid-19 prevent you from physically attending a
school campus during the current semester, this packet will offer the alternative experiences
required to satisfy your “Field Observation” requirements for this class virtually.

If possible to pair you with a cooperating CCSD teacher, your placement will be processed by
CSN’s observation coordinator, and you will receive details regarding your assigned school from
your CSN professor. Only then, will you contact the school and meet virtually with your assigned
CCSD “cooperating teacher”. Both you and your cooperating teacher will design a mutually
agreeable schedule to complete your required contact hours once you meet for the first time.

Within this packet, you will find the required field experience assignments that you must
complete in order to pass this class.

Your Name: Laisa Garcia

CSN Course: EDU 203

Professor: Dr.Warby

Professor’s email: dale.warby@csn.edu

CCSD School: Gwendolyn Woolley Elementary school

Cooperating Teacher: Randy Michealson

DEPARTMENT OF TEACHER EDUCATION FIELD EXPERIENCE GUIDELINES

Standards of Conduct
You are student representatives of the CSN Education Department and the teaching profession.
Candidates are expected to maintain high standards of personal and professional ethics.

Attendance and Punctuality

Regular attendance and punctuality are mandatory. Once you determine a schedule with your
cooperating teacher, this becomes an agreement in which you are expected to adhere to. You
are expected to login and log-off to virtual meetings at the scheduled time. In case of illness or
emergency that would prevent you from joining a scheduled class virtually, you must contact the
cooperating teacher a minimum of 3 days in advance to let them know you will not be in
attendance on that day.

Relationships
You should exercise respectful discretion when voicing your personal views. It is important that
your demeanor and opinions remain confidential. Under no circumstances can information
about any students be released to, or discussed with, any unauthorized person. It is forbidden to
have any contact with students outside of the classroom you are assigned. This restriction
includes CSN students contacting CCSD students in person, through any electronic means, or
through the use of social media.

Dress Code
CSN Department of Education wants you to be a success. Therefore we have adopted the
CCSD dress code for students fulfilling their observation requirement in the assigned school
district. Appearance creates credibility; make a good first impression by dressing professionally,
even when meeting virtually.

Required Acceptable Attire: Males:

• Shirts with collars
• Ties (optional) with button down shirts
• Khakis, trousers, slacks; belts if pants have loops, (no sagging, rips or tears)
• Simple jewelry
• Shoes and socks that cover the toes and heels
Required Acceptable Attire:Females:
• Shirts or blouses that cover the shoulders & waist; no see-through or mesh
• Sweaters worn over shirt
• Pants, pantsuits, khakis, trousers, slacks (no sagging, rips or tears)
• Jumpers, dresses, skirts (in length from 2" above the knee to the ankle)
• Shoes and socks that cover the toes and heels
• Leggings worn under dresses/skirts/jumpers
• Simple jewelry or none
• Little (daytime) make-up
Not Acceptable Attire: jeans, shorts, tank tops, halter tops, muscle T-shirts, tight fitting
clothing, warm-ups, sandals, flip flops, stilettos; no cleavage showing, no sagging or frayed
hems; no head covering except for religious reasons, such as a yarmulke or turban-like. No
nontraditional hair colors/styles. Undergarments and tattoos should be covered. Remove facial
jewelry. *School principal/supervisor has the sole discretion on questionable clothing or
appearance that distracts from student learning.

Classroom Conduct: At all times, the cooperating teacher maintains legal responsibility for
pupils in his or her classroom. You should never assume that responsibility and be left
unsupervised with children. You should not discipline students. You are an observer, who
should take notes to discuss during your next education class meeting, or to record in your Field
Observation packet.

Professional Conduct:
Never speak to staff or students in an abusive manner.
Never touch or be alone with a student for any reason.
Never give a student food, drink, or other items without the teacher’s permission.
Never take photos/video of students or staff without written permission from the principal.
Never make or accept calls/text using any communication device while at the school.

CCSD WAIVERS
Review the terms of the CCSD Waiver Forms provided by your instructor.
“Student Statement of Responsibility” (Exhibit B)
“Student Confidentiality Statement” (Exhibit C)

These 2 waiver documents MUST be agreed to in order to secure your observation placement.
While submitting your Field Observation Request, you will be prompted to check that you have
read the waivers and that you agree to the terms. Completion of the CSN Field Observation is a
PASS/FAIL component of the course.

ONCE YOU ARE ASSIGNED A COOPERATING TEACHER WHO IS DISTANCE LEARNING

1. Pre-plan for initial contact with the school you are assigned and make sure that all interaction
with CCSD employees and students is respectful, courteous, and professional. You are a
representative of this class and the college. CCSD is allowing you to observe their teachers to
further your understanding of the teaching profession. It is imperative that your actions reflect a
willingness to learn, and are reflective of a future professional educator. The school will select a
teacher for you to observe and provide you with their contact information.

2. The first half of your field observation/experience will be centered around learning
background information about the school you were assigned, and focusing on the general and
unique characteristics of its culture. You will be looking at, and reflecting upon things that are
going on in the virtual classroom at the school level that you were assigned. You are simply
observing during this time. Your cooperating teacher may give you guidance on how your
experience can be expanded beyond simple observations, if he/she feels comfortable with your
professionalism and skills.

3. Contact your Cooperating Teacher to introduce yourself. Since this is your first contact, ask
the teacher for the necessary information to access their virtual classroom, and when the live
sessions occur that they would prefer you to join. Share this “Field Observation Activities
Packet”, with your cooperating teacher as well as the last 3 pages which contain the
“Cooperating Teacher Information”, the “Time Log” and the “Field Observation Student
Evaluation”. Let the teacher know that you will be taking notes during the observation for your
packet assignments, that you will be asking them to verify your hours of attendance, and
evaluate your participation once the total observation hours are complete.

4. When logging in with your cooperating teacher and their students during a virtual meeting, it
is recommended that you keep both your microphone and video camera OFF during the
observation, unless the cooperating teacher directs you to speak or be seen while observing. In
that case, make sure your home workspace is void of background distractions, or anything in
view that may be considered inappropriate for students to see. Your online attire should be the
same as if you were visiting the school in person. Employ the use of typical lighting and image
framing to make the most of your broadcast. The typical “Rule of Thirds” works well, whereby
the camera height is adjusted so that your eyes are positioned in the top third of the window.
Front lit subjects look better on screen than being backlit by a window or artificial light.

THE FIELD OBSERVATION PACKET ASSIGNMENT DIRECTIONS

Read through all the assignments and take notes during your observation visits. You will gather
information on more than one assignment during an observation. Then, using your notes
answer the questions for each assignment.

• All assignments must be word processed. Your detailed responses to assignment questions
must demonstrate careful analysis of the questions and the observation information.

• Questions and their responses must include thorough explanations and examples from the
classroom observation. All responses must be written as complete sentences.

Include the question number, along with your response as a short essay response as in this
sample below:

Assignment #2 - Question 1: What is your first impression of the classroom

environment?
Response: “The classroom environment is friendly and welcoming to the students and
seems a fun place to learn. The classroom is decorated with the students’ work,
interesting posters and the teacher shows respect to the students.”
When it is time to submit the Field Observation Packet for grading, these items must be
included:

• The cover page of the Field Observation Packet

• All observation assignments

• Time Log verifying hours spent within virtual meetings

• The Cooperating Teacher Evaluation

THE FIELD OBSERVATION ASSIGNMENTS: Cooperating Teacher assigned to CSN student

ASSIGNMENT #1 (Culture): Using the questions below, carefully observe and evaluate the
culture of the school. School culture refers to the way teachers and other staff members work
together and the set of beliefs, values, and assumptions they share. A positive school climate
and school culture promote students' ability to learn. Remember you are evaluating the school
for its educational culture, place of learning, sense of safety, invitation for learning, promotion of
self-actualization, development of values and socialization. Use online resources such as your
assigned school’s CCSD webpage, http://nevadareportcard.nv.gov/di/,
https://www.publicschoolreview.com, and https://www.greatschools.org/nevada/las-vegas/ to
answer the following questions.

Physical Characteristics: Look at a picture(s) of the school to determine atmosphere, comfort,

and feelings the school creates for students in the educational setting.

1. Consider the school property: building, grounds, fencing, equipment, landscaping,

trees, parking lot, crosswalks, gates, signs and symbols. Describe in detail.

The school is in a virtual environment with students in their room during google meet
classroom.

2. Next, (if available) study the interior of the school: halls, floor coverings, lighting,
doors, windows, hall colors and decorations and entrance security. Explain in detail.

As described the classroom is in a virtual environment where the students are learning
with the teacher presenting what's on the screen

Culture of the School: Read, listen and/or observe to determine the climate, values, and
atmosphere within the school.

1: What are your first impressions of the school? Enrollment, graduation rate, proficiency
rates, student/teacher ratio etc.

One of my first impressions made so far from this class is that the students are well-
behaved and are paying attention towards what the teacher is teaching.

2: Please describe the student make-up of the school, including gender, ethnicity,
students with disabilities, ELL students, and any other attributes that are important to
note you found.

The students answer math questions from the teachers around 10 to 10:30. In the
classroom there is only two boys. There is a diversity of American and Hispanic in the
virtual classroom. Other things I was able to notice was that there was a student with a
disability whose name is Levi who struggles to answer math problems and might have
trouble trying to learn in class.
 3. Explain the school’s mission/vision statements, motto, and mascot.

Their mission and vision is that they want to create a community of learners by helping
them dedicate to having a more positive learning place for other students to learn in as
well through their values and love for learning in order to have a better academic
performance. Also their motto as explained means that they are a community
elementary school that wants to help make a more positive environment for students
who want to learn as well as better preparing them for success. And last, there mascot is
a Wooley mammoth.

4. Examine school traditions, achievements, and awards; community recognition

or community partners; extracurricular activities/clubs and athletics. Look for and
document sources of community pride and sense of identity through ceremonies,
assemblies, trophies, and artifacts.

So far what I was able to notice from the school traditions and everything else there was that
the school has an album called “Woolley attendance” as a reward for always attending their
classes and showing up every day in school. Overall, their community pride shows that they
care for their school and student's education as well as most importantly through the
community's recognition in relation of helping students have a better education and life later in
the future shows the school is wanting to help students' developer a stronger independence
within their later future goals in life.

5. Briefly describe three other pieces of information that can be found on your assigned
school’s website.

Other things found on the school's website site is that it shows, upcoming events, food menus, an
infinite campus login for students and information about staff and schools contact information.

Culture of the Classroom: Each classroom has its own culture and way of life.

1. What are the teacher’s expectations for learning and success?

The teacher expectations through learning and success for his classroom is to make
sure the student is in a learning environment where he or she can succeed in improving
their own learning skills.

2. Evaluate the level of student participation in the class. Who participates? Who does
not?
Both students seem to participate during video activates that require kids math music. Although
the other students becomes more engaged more than the other student during the meeting
showing what's presented on the teachers screen.
3. Evaluate the interactions between teacher and students, rapport, cohesiveness,
distribution of power, teacher personality.

The teacher is nice and patient with the students and shows that he cares for their own
education. He varies on having a positive personality that helps motivate the students
more during the learning sessions had.
 4. Observe student-to-student interactions, inside and outside of the class. Are they
using any chat features to communicate with each other?

They are using google meets as their main chat feature for communication.

ASSIGNMENT #2 (Observations)

1: What are your first impressions of the virtual classroom environment? Is it warm,
inviting, organized, etc? Describe the virtual environment in detail.
My first impressions of the classroom so far is that the environment is nice and friendly
and it gives a welcoming feel. And the classroom its self is very organized with parents
helping their kids learn during their virtual meetings.

2: Please describe the student make-up of the class, including gender, ethnicity, ELL,
students with physical challenges, and any other apparent attributes that are important
to note.
There is an equal amount of boys and girls in the classroom. And through ethnicity there
is more Hispanics as observed in the virtual meeting.

3: Are their posted class rules or course expectations? If rules/expectations are posted
write them exactly as they appear.

Yes they are posted, and it shows course expectations through the class schedules that
the student needs to follow.

4: Does the teacher enforce these posted rules/expectations? What rewards or

consequences are used for compliance or noncompliance?

Yes the teacher does, and the rewards given are if the student participates through the
assignments and does their tasked assignments.

5: What is the posted daily/weekly schedule for different subjects or periods?

Yes there is class rules added in the classroom such as math meetings around 9:50 to
10:20. Also, small group and independent math time at 10:20-10:55. Virtual office hours
around 10:55-11:45. Lunch to 11:45 to 12:15. 12:40 is science and social studies as well
as 1:10 is social/emotional meeting.

6: Do you see evidence of the school’s mission/vision statements in the virtual

environment?

Yes, I do notice because it shows that they want their students to learn and improve.
ASSIGNMENT #3 (Classroom Layout): Take screenshots of the learning management system
used by the teacher (Canvas, Google Classroom, Seesaw etc..)

1: Describe the workflow of the online environment. Is the space and time used
efficiently?

The time and space is worked out perfectly as to everything else being organized in its
own proper time.

2: In your opinion, how can the virtual arrangement of the room be improved?

There’s nothing that needs to be improved as everything else is worked out well for the virtual
meetings and teaching skills for the students.

ASSIGNMENT #4 (Instruction): Observe any instructional time with your assigned Cooperative
Teacher, and record your observations when presented with the questions below:

1: Is instruction delivered in small groups, centers, whole groups, individually?

The groups are usually small but individually as well.

2: Describe your cooperating teacher’s teaching style.

He teaches the students by showing them videos about math and ones about social
emotional then he goes on to ask them to answer questions related from what they
learned from those videos. As well as teaching them math stuff,

3: How does the teacher incorporate the sensory modalities (learning styles)? Give
examples.

By making them watch a new video for each lesson that's incorporated within the
sensory modalities.
4: Do the students seem engaged in the lesson(s) presented? Please explain.

Only one of the students seem to be engaged from the lessons being presented while
the other students is feeling distracted by other things around him on his webcam. But at
least the other student wants to learn as he seems quiet focused on the lesson and the
videos being presented in zoom.

5: Are there any students isolated or not present/participating in the class? Explain?

No, all students are presented and participating in class.

6: How does the teacher handle absences from the class?

Marks the students that are present and the ones that aren’t here in his class.

7: How does the teacher handle transitions from subject to subject or activity to activity?
Are the transitions efficient?

He plays every video through math subjects, towards social emotional then makes the
students participate through activities.

8: List ways the teacher uses “attention getting” commands, word phrases, signals, etc.
Are they effective?

The commands he uses to make his students pay attention is by notifying on the virtual
meeting stuff for assignments or calls their names to make sure they are paying
attention in class while observing to make sure they are doing as told.

9: What specific behavior issues does the teacher have to deal with? How does the
teacher handle the behavior issues? Be specific.

Either one of the students not paying attention to the class and not being focused is one
of the behavioral issues I believe since some of the students seemed to be quiet
distracted.

10: Are there any policies or procedures that help or hinder instructional time? Please
explain them and how they help or hinder instructional time.

Yes, there is a schedule made by the teacher that tells what the students are supposed
to do during their learning lessons. As an explanation the teacher presents his schedule
through the meeting screen and lets the students know when it's time to start class and
when the class ends through each hour that the class is being taken from the morning to
the afternoon.
ASSIGNMENT #5 (Observing a student): Discretely observe one student in your assigned
classroom during direct instruction.

1: What drove you to choose this student?

What I learned so much about the student was that he seemed motivated to learn in
class every morning with his positive attitude.

2: Explain what the student did during the observation.

The student was dancing along to a music video and seemed to be having fun while
learning at the same time through the educational dancing video.

3. Summarize the lesson given and the student’s responses to the lesson.

The lesson was about a video related towards kid time story time. The lesson talks about
making poems as a craft project. The student’s response was that he really seemed
invested on the lesson since it was a story book about a tree and a kid spending time
with each other.

4. Make sure to document ALL behavior in relationship to what was being presented by
the classroom teacher.

The teacher is teaching them word sentences and is asking them to read each word. As
the students are participating in the class eagerly. Other things that I was able to
document so far was that the teacher shows patience towards his students in class while
asking them to read other word sentences and giving a brief explanation to what they
mean. As the students try to write down the sentences from the meeting screen, it
helped them feel motivated to learn.

5. Please describe what you discovered about the student’s learning styles, involvement
in class, and his/her educational needs.

As observed, the students learning styles is quiet simple and easy to understand as they
always try to participate in class as well as answering the teachers questions about
certain class lessons through the lessons. So far within their involvement in class, the
students are always willing to learn in class and try to pay attention in class as much as
they could. Last, the educational needs for the students as described is that one of them
will need more time than the other students because he may have a hard time learning
in class but is always ready to learn as the other student may be too easily distracted in
class even if he tries to pay attention in class.
ASSIGNMENT #6 (Cooperating Teacher Interview): Arrange for a convenient time to
interview your cooperating teacher either on the phone or by video conference. Ask the
questions below. Include any school document, handouts, etc. the teacher provides..

1: What was the primary reason you became a teacher?

I like working with students and was a teacher assistant helping other younger students
learn.

2: What are the main challenges you face as a teacher?

Special ed paper work, lesson plans and behavioral challenges

3: What is the best part of being a teacher?

When a student learns something new and feels the motivation of knowledge. And when
they understand something they feel more excited about the lesson.

4: How do you determine where students sit in class?

When it's not virtual, I space students where they need to get most of their work done,
So students will come to the carpet or sitting right or left in small groupings. Or sitting
them next to an assistant if help needed.

5: How do you select members of any flexible groups?

Sometimes grouping people together who are in the same level or a kid who’s more
capable of learning more.

6: How often do you interact with parents in person? What are the main reasons for
interactions with parents?
More of phone calls but also depends on the student. Or making sure to check the
students are able to contact by email every week so the parents know as well.

7: How much grading do you complete on a daily/weekly basis?

normally check on pages and grading papers because of fewer students but also do
progress reports of IEPs. And because it's a different type of program. So it depends on
assessing the student through formative assessments.
8: How long does it take to prepare lessons for the day/week?
Usually spending a hour a day or a week as well as prepping for other stuff. Also the
student helps in assisting the topic. In other words 5 hours a week. Making sure the
students understand better through their goals and IEP stuff.

9: What procedures or strategies do you use to maximize instructional time?

By trying to stick by the schedule as well as IEP stuff and other topics as a form of not
getting distracted.

10: What positive reinforcements have you used successfully? What behavioral
consequences seem most effective with this age group?

By virtual when using educational song videos. And by starting each assignment
together then a break by doing a lesson first then asking the students what they want to
work on then tell the students what they need to do first. Then ask them simple things by
telling them to do their important daily tasks first such as a math problem then a break
afterwards. Depending on student who needs help or struggles more. And making sure
what the student wants as a reward of motivation.

11: How are specialist teachers involved in your instructional planning and process?

Many times when students are given an assignment they will do other activities in a
classroom such as science, and other stuff in their journals related towards plants and
plant songs. And knowing what the student is working on helps what is affective for the
students in special education.

12: How often are you evaluated, and what measurement tool is used by the
administration for determining your teaching performance?

Nevada education performance frame work is used to evaluate the work of teachers and
I have a professional license for observation in full cycle only once and turning in
Nevada education performance as a way to evaluate through the students' performance
plan.
13: What consequences are there if your evaluation is not favorable?

It depends if being favorable as a teacher through non-effective highly or lowly affective.

Unless in probation, minimum depends or highly no matter what is being reinforced. But
there is no raise through these but they will try to make you affective within jobs being
taken. They try to make sure if the person is effective or not through determination.

14: What surprised you most about teaching as a profession?

What was surprising to me most was when becoming a teacher wasn't too surprising
since working as a sub for many years but one surprising thing was students who were
new to the teaching program and how to handle with a set up program. As every year
there’s different students within the grade and teacher who's teaching and also the
behavioral problems being faced.

15: What drives their lesson plans? What standards do teachers use during lesson
planning?
Using IEP goals as a self-contained special ed program for each student and their
education program through Nevada education standards. Other schools use programs
that help teach the standards although the programs only being used to help teach their
IEPs and educational programs.

16: If they are teaching at a Nevada Charter school, are there lessons prescribed from
core standards or from other resources?
If students are needed to follow the school board stuff since it's a public environment.

17. How do you accommodate ELL, GATE, General Ed and Special Education
students?
Mainly doing individual education. As special education such as prepping meeting and
making sure other parents know what's going on. As well as accommodating students
with autism through their visuals and making sure their needs are being met. Also
depending on the students' needs to this.
ASSIGNMENT #7 (Summary): Thoroughly summarize and reflect upon your entire 10 hour Field
Observation. What did you observe, learn, realize about teachers, students, instruction, the school
environment? How has this observation better prepared you to understand the teaching profession?
How does the observation relate to the text information and class activities? What specific ideas on
teaching will you remember to include in your classroom?

What I was able to learn so far about the field observation was that it taught me

many things such as observing the types of disabilities that students have. The whole

classroom environment showed that the students were trying to stay engaged in class

as other students were not, but it shows that they may struggle because of the

disabilities they have. Other things I noticed about the class was that everything was

well-organized as well as the schedules being shown for the student's class time periods

during virtual meetings and what was needed for the student to learn in class. I also

have seen that the teacher helps by showing educational videos to students after every

lesson that is being taught in the virtual classroom.

One thing for sure from how this field observation will better prepare me when I

become a teacher is that I will be able to gain more experience when learning and have

a better opened mind set to instructing students who have disabilities. However, the

observation relates through text information and class activates is that It talks about the

classroom environment and how students are engaged to the teachers' lessons being

taken. Other notable things that I have observed from my virtual meetings was that it

showed how the teacher had an assistant to help him because when having a virtual

classroom meeting can be quite stressful as for students that are needed to take part

during virtual class meetings activities.

The teacher also instructs their students subjects such as social emotional

videos and math videos during the lesson to better help the student have a more

opened mind while learning the subjects needed as well as the schedules being
presented on the google meets screen that shows when the classes will begin through

the mornings and after noon's.

Much more that was quiet learning full of the virtual meetings observed was that

the teacher shows patience towards his fellow students and rewards them gifts for

participation in the virtual meeting classes that are being taught by him. And the

students seem excited to learn in his classroom despite other students who get easily

distracted and cannot learn well due to their struggles or disabilities that they have. As

well as the school’s wanting the students to be in a learning environment that helps them

learn new things each day just like the cooperating teacher wanting his students to learn

more each day they are in the classroom.

The students are also put into individual grouping where the teacher decides that

the students will work on their readings alone by using educational programs to help

assist them in their own learning while the students can have the support of their parents

to help them learn better as they are trying to learn. These are the main reasons why it

inspires me to do better in my own teaching profession because it's not easy teaching in

a classroom environment despite whether it is a small or big class of students in person

or virtually as the effort through teaching these students are needed for them in order to

learn and do better in class.

Other stuff that helped me learn to better prepare for my teaching profession is

that it's important to always be patient and understanding with the students in the

classroom because you cannot judge them nor know the main reasons as to why they

are unable to learn well in class as the best you can do is by helping them improve their

learning skills with methods that have ideas for these students that have disabilities or

motivational rewards that can help motivate the student into getting the reward they want
until they have learned the lesson that’s being taught through any subjects teacher by

the teacher.

How the observation can help relate through the observation's activities made as

well as text information is that its relations through everything else being taught is that

the observation activates supplies essential information about the classroom setting, the

environment and number of students who learned or showed participation during the

field observation I was able to learn in and observe during the virtual meetings that were

presented. Much more to this, other things that has become more relatable towards the

class activities and text being made is that the observation was able to supply quiet

useful information about how the class was being taught and what important subjects in

class were being teached to the students as well as important learning skills that were

also being taught in the classroom setting.

Other things being relatable from the observation made was that during the

observation activities showed the purpose of the school's reason for wanting students to

learn. The school also had a motto which related with the observation activities which

talked about how they want the students to receive a better education meaning that later

in the future the students will know what they want to be when they grow up. Because it

will help the students gain a better education for themselves someday.

Last, specific ideas ill use to my teaching is something I thought after this

observation and that is helping students by showing them educational videos and letting

them use education programs to help them become more educated through their own

learnings and needs.

Remember that before receiving the final grade for this EDU course, the CSN student must
submit the completed Cover Page, Field Observation Activities, Time Log, and Student
Evaluation to the CSN instructor for grading.

The cooperating teacher must also email the instructor to confirm the successful completion of
the observation. The student is required to provide the CCSD cooperating teacher with their
CSN professor’s email, so the cooperating teacher can send an email to verify that the student
has successfully completed the 10 hours of observation. The instructor’s email must be
provided on the first page of this packet, and on the next page for the cooperating teacher.

Remember that completion of the Field Observation is a PASS/FAIL component of the course.
Students must save this completed packet in digital form, and as a hard copy for the Education
Department’s capstone course, (EDU 299) Education Portfolio or (EDU 220) Educational
Psychology
COOPERATING TEACHER INFORMATION - CSN FIELD OBSERVATIONS - VIRTUAL

Dear Cooperating Teacher,

Thank you for assisting in the preparation of a new generation of Nevada teachers. Our
education majors are required to complete 10 field observation hours in: EDU 203__
Introduction to __________Special________ Education

This class is where many of our students actually make the decision whether they will continue
further study of the profession. We appreciate you joining us in providing these students with a
wonderful first experience in the virtual classroom. If at all possible, please utilize the student to
assist you in supervised classroom instructional activities if you deem them ready.

We are hopeful that the information we have enclosed with this letter, which has been approved
by the Nevada College Consortium, will help you with a clear sense of how this field experience
works. When the student has completed his/her required 10 observation hours, please complete
and sign the “FIELD OBSERVATION TIME LOG” and “FIELD OBSERVATION STUDENT
EVALUATION” (along with the student). Then, return these two pages to the student who will
submit them to his/her professor.

For your convenience, the student has provided you with CSN contact information below.
Please contact the CSN instructor if there are any questions or concerns.

Also, before a final grade for EDU _203____ can be assigned, the CSN professor MUST
receive your official email verification that the student successfully completed the 10 hour
observation. Please also “cc” the student on this email. The student WILL NOT receive a final
grade in the course until the email is received from you.
CSN Course # & name: EDU ___203___ Introduction to ___Special_______________
Education

CSN Professor: Dr.Warby

CSN Professor’s phone: (702) 651-4189

CSN Professor’s email: dale.warby@csn.edu

Student’s full name: Laisa Garcia

Student’s email: LAISA.GARCIA@student.csn.edu

Should you have any concerns or questions about this process, please feel free to contact the
instructor directly, or the CSN Education Department at: (702) 651-4400.
TIME LOG - CSN Field Observations - VIRTUAL MEETINGS

CSN Student: Laisa Garcia

CSN Instructor: Dr.Warby

CCSD School Assigned: Woolley ES

CCSD Cooperating Teacher: Randy Michealson

CCSD Grade/Department: 3rd grade/ Dept of education

CCSD School Principal: Josephy Uy

CCSD School Phone: (702) 799-4970

Date Log On Log Off Hours

2/26/21 10:40-12:40 11:00-1:10 3

3/1/21 9:00 12:40 3

3/2/21 9:00-1:10 12:40-2:17 4

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Total Hours

03/03/2021
CCSD Teacher Signature: _________________________ Date: ___________________
FIELD OBSERVATION STUDENT EVALUATION - completed by Cooperating CCSD teacher

Please complete the following evaluation using the Performance Indicator Scores below (with
the student) once the total observation hours are met. Your constructive comments are
extremely valuable to the student. Return this page to the student along with their Time Log to
be submitted to the instructor with the completed Field Observation Packet.

Enter the appropriate “Performance Indicator Score” in the spaces below

(4)=exemplary (3)=consistent level (2)=not consistent (1)=lacking

3
_____ Professional appearance, adherence to CCSD dress code
3
_____ Reliability, punctuality
3
_____ Communicates effectively with teachers and staff
3
_____ Demonstrates manners, graciousness
3
_____ Reflects upon observations using critical thinking
3
_____ Demonstrates enthusiasm and curiosity toward the profession
3
_____ Models respectful behavior with students
3
_____ Uses appropriate language
3
_____ Exhibits pre-service educator success indicators

Comments:
It was a pleasure having her visit our class.
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03/03/2021
Cooperating Teacher’s Signature: _________________________________ Date:________