WE ARE ON A MISSION TO GET YOU EDUCATED, SO YOU CAN EDUCATE OTHERS

The mission of Teacher Education at the University of Minnesota Crookston is to develop beginning teachers as engaged learners who know how to create motivating environments, work with diverse students, adapt curriculum and practices, model ethical practices, and make reflective decisions that support and extend the learning of children/students in any setting.

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Program Features

ACCREDITATION

The UMN Crookston Teacher Education Unit is accredited by the Minnesota Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board (PELSB). The PELSB also oversees the Minnesota teacher certification for teacher candidates who wish to teach in K – 12 public schools in Minnesota.

TEACHER EDUCATION VISION

Our vision of offering exemplary teacher education programs depends on reflective practice that currently integrates the following features: 

  • Coherence in learning experiences
  • Strong core curriculum
  • Explicit standards for performance and professional practice
  • Extensive use of performance assessments
  • Continuous improvement

TEACHER LICENSING PROGRAMS

 

I'M GOING TO TEACH THE WORLD SOMEDAY

The University of Minnesota Crookston provides programs in teaching and education. It’s real, hands-on and will get you ready for ready for anything.

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Basic Requirements and Resources

Basic Requirements

  1. Teacher Education Admission
  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
  5. Appeals Form

Resources

Field Experiences and Student Teaching

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
  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

Teaching Licensure

Conceptual Framework

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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
On-Campus Teacher Education Unit

at a glance...

The UMN Crookston Teacher Education Unit is accredited by the Minnesota Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board (PELSB).

We develop beginning teachers as engaged learners that support and extend the learning of children/students in any setting.

Strong core curriculum.

We help you find field experiences, student teaching placements and guide you to get your Minnesota teacher licensure.

Crookston Golden Eagle

REAL. HANDS-ON. READY.

At the U of M Crookston, you won’t spend all your time behind a desk. Our curriculum is designed around experiential learning, which means we want you to have as much hands-on learning as possible. Depending on your major, you’ll find opportunities to be in the field, the lab, the classroom, or engaging in simulated scenarios that give you a competitive edge when you enter the workforce or head to grad school. You’ll learn the concepts and then actively apply them through projects, field trips, site visits, internships, and interactions with professionals in the field.

YOUR FUTURE PROFESSORS

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Danielle Schantz

Teaching Specialist
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Sam Gruenberg

Lecturer, Department Head
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Mark Huglen

Professor

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