Cooperating teachers are invited to participate in the assessment of the initial preparation of current interns and their ability to meet prescribed national program standards.  Their insights and reflections as they helped our candidate focus on the knowledge, skills and dispositions are necessary for our interns to become an effective teacher.  In addition, their voices are valued as we partner together to prepare another educator for New Jersey’s schools. 

Cooperating teachers are given a Supplemental Program Assessment by their internship candidate and are asked to judge the preparation of their intern to meet national standards as established by peers and colleagues and accepted by professional organizations. 

Click here for the Supplemental Program Assessment Form for each Kean University College of Education program, and for a listing of the Professional Organizations and the rubrics that are to be used to score the Supplemental Program Assessments.

A tutorial about this authentic assessment can be accessed by clicking here.   Included with the tutorial are links to the professional educational associations and their national teaching standards on which these supplemental assessments are based.   We encourage you to supplement your understanding of these standards by reviewing them online and then speaking with one or more of our faculty listed below to understand how the national standards are incorporated into our Kean University College of Education’s SPECTRUM Model of Learning Outcomes in the areas of Knowledge, Skills, and Dispositions.

Kean University, the College of Education and the Teaching Performance Center with to thank all of our cooperating teachers and districts for partnering with Kean in the preparation of teachers.

Early Childhood Education
Dr. Jo Hoffman
908-737-3774

Health & Physical Education
Dr. Josh Palgi
908-737-5503

English Education K-12
Dr. Linda Cahir
908-737-4234

Science Education K-12
Dr. Frank Osborne
908-737-4389

Elementary Education
Prof. Patrick Ippolito
908-737-4285

Music Education
Dr. Lyn Schraer-Joiner
908-737-4339

ESL Education K-12
Dr. Betsy Rodriguez-Bachiller
908-737-4219

Social Studies Education K-12
Dr. Jerry Weiner
908-737-4294

Fine Arts Education
Dr. Joseph Amorino
908-737-4403

Teacher of Students w/Disabilities
Dr. Barbara Lee
908-737-3860

Mathematics Education K-12
Dr. Thomas Walsh
908-737-4296

World Language Spanish K-12
Dr. Frank Osborne
908-737-4389