School/University Partnership Team
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School/University Partnership Team
SUPT represents the collaboration of public schools and the College of Education and Human Development's Teacher Education programs. The team includes public school students, teachers, administrators, university faculty, students and staff. Together members of the team:
- Become a community of teachers/learners
- Develop skills and abilities of effective mentoring
- Engage in staff development to assist with the on going revisioning of public education
- Explore research applicable to the work of the partnership and of good teaching practice
- Assist interns (student teachers) in the teacher education programs to have the highest quality experiences in their intern semester.
Staff development meetings explore areas of interest identified by the partnership. Nearly 90 educators attend these monthly meetings to solve problems, to plan new initiatives in the program, and study new and developing aspects of the program and of the role of a mentor.
Although not every teacher in a Cluster Site becomes a mentor, all teachers at the site are identified as members of the SUPT, helping student interns to perform to their highest capabilities. Teachers in the schools, WMU faculty and staff and students in both settings come together as a community of learners to discover and share meaningful teaching and learning to assure continuous improvement.
