Student Teaching: Elementary/Middle Education (K-9)

Catalog description

In this course student teaching is a culminating professional experience that spans "full days for a full semester following the daily schedule and semester calendar of the cooperating school" (per WI licensing statute 118.19(3)(a)) in selected K-12 schools with qualified, approved cooperating teachers. Orientation, seminars, and other professional experiences are also required. May be repeated for credit in a subsequent semester for each additional licensure. Registration occurs through the Office of Field Experience only. Prerequisite: completion of education requirements, including special methods courses; appropriate education faculty recommendation; 2.75 cum GPA; pass content competency benchmarks; meet reading competency benchmarks as appropriate to the program requirements. Consent of department. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading. Offered Fall, Spring.