Student Teaching is the culminating field experience in the PK-3 ECE Specialist Instruction Credential Program. It is completed during the final semester(s) of the program where PK-3C Program candidates apply and integrate the pedagogy they have learned in their other course work to actual classroom experience. For some candidates, student teaching is a full-time five days per week experience for the length of the university semester. Candidates may be placed in public school TK-3 classrooms and public preschool classrooms. 

1. Completion of all program prerequisites, corequisites, and pedagogical method courses. 

2. Optional to allow for one method course with student teaching. 

3. Received a B or better in all subject-specific pedagogy courses. 

4. Proof of identity and character clearance (current certificate of clearance). 

5. A negative tuberculosis skin test taken within the last four (4) years or chest X-ray taken within the last eight (8) years. Tuberculosis clearance must be valid through student teaching. 

6. Submission of a student teaching application by the appropriate deadline.