Teacher Education Unit

Basic Requirements

1. Teacher Education Admission
   • Teacher Education Application
   • Process of Monitoring and Assessing Candidates (Checkpoints)
2. MN Teacher License Examinations (MTLE)
   • Directions on how to register for MTLE
   • What tests do I need to take?
     • Basic Skills (Reading, Writing, Math) Information (p. 1-2)
     • Pedagogy Tests
       • Agricultural Education (p. 8)
       • Early Childhood Education (p. 8)
       • Elementary Education (p. 8)
     • Contest Tests
       • Agricultural Education (p. 9)
       • Early Childhood Education (p. 10)
       • Elementary Education (p. 10)
3. Code of Ethics for Minnesota Teachers
4. Program Requirements
   • Agricultural Education
   • Early Childhood Education (Birth to 3rd Grade)
   • Elementary Education
5. Appeals Form

Resources

• Teacher Education Handbook: for students, faculty, and staff
• Minnesota Department of Education
• Professional Educators and Licensing Standards Board (PELSB)

Get in the classroom

1. Liability Insurance (PDF)
2. Practicum Experiences: Disposition Form (.DOCX)
3. Student Teaching Application (.DOCX)
   • Summer and Fall Semester Student Teaching: due first Friday of February
   • Spring Semester Student Teaching: due first Friday of October
4. Student Teaching Handbooks
   • Agricultural Education (PDF)
   • Early Childhood & Elementary Education (PDF)
5. Student Teaching Evaluations (formative and summative) - available at Student Teaching Canvas site
6. edTPA Information and Forms - available at Student Teaching Canvas site
7. Student Teaching Syllabi - available at Student Teaching Canvas site
8. Code of Ethics

Get licensed to teach

1. How to apply for your teacher licensure (PDF) - updated April 9, 2021
2. Information on Tiered Learning (PDF)
   • Tier Licensing Applications

The Conceptual Framework for Teacher Education at the University of Minnesota, Crookston includes these essential components:

Pedagogical Paradigm: Learner-Centered

Teacher educators at the University of Minnesota, Crookston keep student learning and meaning-making at the forefront of our curriculum, relationships, and practices. We recognize our responsibility to create environments and experiences that help students discover and construct knowledge for themselves.

Conceptual Framework: Themes

Our Unifying Themes guide our curriculum and integrate our institutional student learning competencies and core values, Professional Educators Licensing and Standards Board (PELSB) standards, academic knowledge bases, dispositions, field experiences, student teaching, and assessments of student learning.

• Focus on the Nature of Learners
  The developmental characteristics of the learner, temperament, learning styles, motivations, knowledge, skills, attitudes, experiences, and cultural context are central to facilitating learning.
• Create a Motivating Environment
  Creating motivating and challenging environments, developing responsive relationships, encouraging students’ active engagement in learning, and using inquiry learning strategies to increase students’ motivation to learn are at the heart of productive and positive teaching and learning environments.
• Demonstrate Content Expertise
  Academic subject matter standards inform what teacher education candidates need to know, understand, and be able to do. Teachers need to connect ideas to one another and apply them to real-world problems.
• Build Partnerships
  Building communities of learning, both in the classroom and beyond the classroom, are critical to maintaining professional partnerships and collaborations. Continual interaction and shared responsibility between and among members of our learning communities is essential in the preparation of highly qualified beginning teachers.
• Reflect as a Practitioner
  Developing reflection skills is a complex process which requires continuous analysis of ones’ teaching and the effect on the individual. Reflective practitioners demonstrate a sustained commitment to learning, questioning, and discovery