Ultimate Guide to your Student Teaching Binder

Okay, student teaching is right around the corner and you may be asking yourself, “What should I have in my student teaching binder?”  I get this question every year around this time and I am here to share with you some of my go to areas for a student teacher binder.

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Sections or pages to include in your student-teacher binder

• Contact information for your cooperating teacher and college supervisor 

• Class roster and annotated seating chart - for each period that you teach with start/end times for each period

• School schedule

• Calendar -Monthly. Weekly, Daily

• Standards for the subject areas in which you will teach - Common Core or state standards

• Lesson plans are separated for each subject area, and a place to reflect

• Big ideas for each domain - planning and prep, instruction, classroom environment, and professional development

• Professional development log

Procedures – as you observe and or ask your cooperating teacher to document common classroom procedures 

• Take and submit attendance

• Student is tardy 

• Grades 

• Feedback 

• Take and submit lunch count

• Late papers

• How students enter and exit the classroom

• How students line up to leave 

• Fire drill

• Emergency card location

• Where they hand in their homework 

• Bathroom policy

• If they finish work early 

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Friends, this is not by any means an exhaustive list of must-haves for your student teaching binder—it's just something to get you started.

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