University of North Texas 
The Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) is the comprehensive guide used by all teachers and teacher candidates to advance practice and student learning. Cooperating teacher are regularly present in the classrooms of preservice teachers to observe and to strategically collect data on management, instruction, and student learning.
TRAINING: Instructional Design Module
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Cooperating teacher focuses on logistical and operational issues, such as school practices and culture, administrative and classroom procedures and norms. |
Cooperating teacher focuses on classroom observations. Cooperating teacher works with student candidate on issues of classroom management, lesson planning, delivery of instruction and student learning aligned with the standard course of study. |
Cooperating teacher works with teacher candidate on limited teaching practices that support the TEKS. |
Cooperating teacher works with teacher candidate across the full-range of teaching practices that support the TEKS and other assessments of classroom practice and student learning. |