Admissions to Student Teaching
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.
- Completion of all required and pedagogical courses.
- Optional to allow for one method course with student teaching.
- Received a B or better in all subject-specific pedagogy courses.
- Proof of identity and character clearance (current certificate of clearance).
- 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.
- Submission of a student teaching application by the appropriate deadline.
