The Board, recognizing its responsibility to contribute to the quality of teacher training and the contributions student teachers can make to Shelby County Schools, encourages and authorizes the superintendent to arrange for the supervision and training of a reasonable number of such teachers in the Shelby County schools each year.
The importance of teacher training to the future of education and the need to assure high quality performance in our schools require student teachers to be placed with experienced teachers of demonstrated competence. No staff members of Shelby County Schools will be required to supervise student teachers. Teachers must have tenure to be assigned the responsibility of supervision of student teachers.
Recognizing the special skills and expertise of the teacher training institutions and their staff, the Shelby County Board authorizes the superintendent to honor those reasonable rules, regulations, and training guidelines of the teacher training institution.
The teacher training institution will be expected to provide liaison personnel who will discuss with the building principal and with the supervising teacher the objectives of the student teaching experience. Such personnel are free to visit the classrooms to observe the student teacher at work.