This letter is intended to help your course instructor and your cooperating know your strengths and talents. You will send have a draft prepared for peer editing on January 14 and will hand in your second draft to your course instructor on January 21. If further editing is required before you send or take the letter to your pre-internship co-operating teacher, you instructor will advise you.. You will up-date this letter to share with your co-op during the internship seminar next fall.
Here are a few guidelines for preparing your letter suggested by the Field Experience Office:
➢ Keep the letter positive and relatively brief (about one type-written page);
➢ Try to envision the impression your letter may give on the co-op;
➢ Avoid lengthy expositions of your philosophy of education and teaching
(This is a separate document suitable for your teaching portfolio).
Major points to cover:
➢ A brief personal background (where you are from etc.);
➢ Some information about activities you have been involved in;
➢ Skills that you have acquired that will be an asset to teaching;
➢ Evidence of a desire to be in the classroom as a pre-intern;
➢ Appreciation of the role your co-operating teaching will play in your professional development.
Letter due: DRAFT January 14, 2009; FINAL Letter DUE January 21, 2009:
In light of your experiences this semester, you will revise this letter to make it appropriate for sending to your internship co-operating teacher.
