Mentor a student teacher Minimum version: FirstClass 8.3 Audience: Teachers Experience: FirstClass applications used:             Workspaces            Documents            Stationery Summary Are you mentoring a student teacher this year? Use a FirstClass Workspace to hold preparation materials, processes, and assessments. From one location, your interns can manage their work, and you can make notes, record assessments, and check in on what they are doing. Example John Smith is a teacher at Avalon Academy. His new student teacher, Al Slate, is responsible for preparing and delivering some of the lessons, leading some class discussions, and providing extra assistance to students who are falling behind or need additional work. To make sure Al has all the information he needs to learn about the class and to track his progress, John creates a new workspace in his Workspaces area called Intern Work and adds the following containers to the workspace: • a Processes folder to store processes and instructions • a Performance reviews conference to store performance reviews. This is the workspace John created. Adding members John clicks Workspace Members and adds Al Slate to the list. This puts the workspace in his Workspaces area and lets him contribute to the workspace. John goes a step further and sets permissions manually on the Performance reviews area so he has complete control to create and edit performance reviews, while Al can contribute to the conference but not change reviews. Using the workspace to manage intern work Once Al is a member of the workspace, he creates project folders and documents for his work. John also posts messages to this container for Al. John creates templates as stationery documents in the Performance reviews area to periodically post reviews of Al's work. Note To set the template documents as stationery, John selected the Stationery field on the Properties form of the document. At the end of Al's internship, John creates a folder for Al's work and archives his files in that folder. He reuses the Intern Work workspace, Classroom processes container, and Performance reviews container for future student teachers.