Co-Teaching Online Training
As a co-teaching participant, you will need to complete Parts A, B and C of the online Co-Teaching Training. These trainings are required of all cooperating teachers and must be completed to be eligible to host a teacher candidate.
Part A: Basic responsibilities of a cooperating teacher supervisor
Part A Training is provided by the Kentucky Department of Education's Office of Educator Licensure and Effectiveness (OELE).
- Please refer to
- Click the link under Additional Resources titled, "Directions on making an iDrive Digital account."
- After making the account, follow the steps in the same document to access Part A Training
- After completion of Part A Training, you will need to upload your certificate in KECS.
For directions on uploading your Part A Training:- You must be signed into your KECS account
- Click on the Help icon (to the left of your name which is in the right hand corner)
- Refer to the document under COOP, titled, "Coop_Teacher_-_Part_A[1].pdf"
For assistance, please contact Brandon Harrod at brandon.harrod@education.ky.gov or Melissa Diebel at melissa.diebel@education.ky.gov
Part B: Best practice in supporting a student teacher (Training)
- Please refer to
- Watch the training video
- Email the Student Teaching Coordinator, Angie Young at ayoung61@murraystate.edu
As per KDE, your message must include both:- A statement verifying that you have reviewed all the material in the training module. The statement may be as simple as: I am writing to verify that I have reviewed all the material in this training module.
- A brief narrative describing at least one idea gleaned from the training module to use when supervising student teachers.
Part C: Effective assessment of the student teacher (Cooperating Teacher Packet)
Part C Co-Teaching training is completed by reviewing the , which includes the Cooperating Teacher Information: Guiding the Teacher Candidate booklet and the Student Teaching Notebook.