Field Experiences and Student Teaching

  1. Field Experiences Requirements - Observational and Practicum and Form (PDF)
    Field experiences play a critical component in the preparation and continuing development of teacher candidates in the content, pedagogical knowledge, skills, and dispositions.  At U of M Crookston, the teacher candidates’ field experiences are frequent, begin early and continue throughout their licensure program.  All candidates are engaged in two different levels of field experiences prior to student teaching.  Each field experience provides candidates with different levels of responsibilities and opportunities to apply, integrate and demonstrate content knowledge and pedagogical knowledge, skills, and dispositions.
  2. Student Teaching Requirements (PDF)
    Student teaching courses are culminating experiences for the pre-service teacher. These intensive, on site, all day, placements provide the opportunities and expectations for students to grow and develop into successful, beginning teachers. In Minnesota, success in student teaching indicates that the candidate has demonstrated achievement in knowledge, dispositions, and performance as presented in Minnesota Rules, 8710.2000, Standards for the Effective Practice for Teaching, and Minnesota Rules, 8710.3000 – 8710.8080 Content-Specific Standards.

    Unit Rule 8705.1010 STANDARD 11 (2).  For candidates seeking an initial professional license, the unit must provide a minimum of 12 full-time weeks, or the equivalent number of weeks where the candidate is participating in at least 80 percent of the contracted school week, of face-to-face student teaching.
     
  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. Clinical Experience Handbook
  5. Student Teaching Evaluations (formative and summative) - available at Student Teaching Canvas site
  6. Student Teaching Syllabi - available at Student Teaching Canvas site
  7. edTPA Information and Forms - available at Student Teaching Canvas site
  8. Minnesota Code of Ethics for Teachers