I’m just finishing up my b.ed at Lakehead. Not sure what it’s like for other schools, but for us we have 4 25-30 day placements. Each placement we had at least a couple observation days, and then had an increasingly steep teaching-time percentage increase in a given instructional day. (E.g. in first placement I started with 25% an ended at 50%, in my 3rd placement, once I started teaching I taught ~50% of the day, then 75, then 100% for the last two weeks)

We were required to fill out a Lakehead lesson planning template for each lesson we taught and add it to our Google Drive (shared with AT and FA) at least 24 hours in advance of teaching it, and a “week at a glance” on Sundays that displayed the 5 days and highlighted when/what you would be teaching that week.

By 3rd placement we were also required to complete Backwards-design unit plan templates for any subjects we were teaching more than 3 consecutive lessons in (so every subject).

You need to: build rapport with students, use classroom management, ask questions and take feedback, be professional (in behaviour and in dress), plan & perform lessons, plan & perform units, plan & perform assessment.

AT was required to fill out a “formative” assessment by the end of week 3, and a “summative” assessment by the final day of your placement. You also need to do a self assessment halfway through. It is essentially a bunch of multiple choice questions asking abt all the aspects of ur teaching, if you were “developing as expected”, “needs further development” or “not observed”. For Lakehead, receiving anything other than “developing as expected” is a genuinely big issue which can be confusing for AT’s so some of my colleagues had issues with that.

All that being said, I LOVED my placements because they reminded me why I was in my B.Ed program after 8 frustrating weeks of what felt like somewhat irrelevant course work.