Student Teaching

Catalog description

The course aims to review important theories and practices in education resulting from recent experimental research, to prepare the students for a period of student teaching in cooperating schools, and to supervise and direct an actual teaching experience in such schools. This course is offered to candidates who are not full-time classroom teachers when signing for this course. Since substitute teachers are not full-time teachers, they fall into this category. Lincoln University’s Office of Student Teaching will make the necessary arrangements with local school districts to have student teaching candidates assigned to classrooms that already have certified teachers who serve as cooperating teachers or mentors. Student teaching candidates will be placed in pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, or grade 1-4 school classrooms where they spend 14 weeks as classroom teachers closely monitored by cooperating teachers and a graduate faculty member from Lincoln University. A certified and experienced classroom teacher, commonly known as a cooperating teacher, must be present in the class with the student teacher when the student teacher performs his or her teaching duties. The university faculty assigned to teach EDU 501 will hold post-site visitation meetings with student teachers to discuss the strengths and weaknesses observed during the visit. Such visitations must take place 4 to 6 times for a minimum of 30 minutes each visit during the semester. The university professor will remain at the site to the end of the session to meet with the student teacher and the cooperating teacher to discuss the classroom observation.