Bard MAT Mentors
At the Bard MAT Program, the student teaching apprenticeship is an integral part of the work we do to prepare excellent pedagogues for careers in middle and high schools. The apprenticeships take different forms across our three campuses – from placements across the Hudson Valley, to a year-long residency model in New York City, to apprenticeships in our charter school, Paramount Bard Academy, in Delano, CA – but the belief that our students learn best by living the life of a teacher connects all of our various models of student teaching.
Because they contribute so deeply to the education of our MAT students, we consider our mentors to be adjunct faculty of Bard College, and encourage them to participate in all the activities we offer our own students and alums – from Graduate Courses to Teachers, to Networking Nights for Teachers, to Institute of Writing & Thinking Workshops.
On this page you will find documents pertaining to the Mentoring Experience with the Bard MAT Program. Please feel free to peruse these documents to learn more about how our student teachers are assessed, and what they do as classroom apprentices.
Students across our campuses are assessed with the TOP Form and Apprentice Evaluation Tool, found below. Students in New York City are also assessed using the Charlotte Danielson “Framework for Teaching” Rubric (below), as this is the tool with which they will be assessed by the Department of Education in NYC once they are full-time teachers.
To find out more about the trajectory of the New York City apprentice experience, take a look at the Clinical Curriculum below. This explicates how the NYC year-long apprenticeship grows from September through May, with MAT students taking on more teaching responsibilities throughout the school year.
