Cooperating Teachers for Student Teachers

Cooperating Teachers: Student Teaching

During student teaching, students in Educator Preparation programs move to complete responsibility for the professional role.

The Educator Preparation Office provides cooperating professionals with documentation for placements. The student teaching handbooks provide guidelines for the clinical experience; evaluation forms are used by cooperating professionals to assess student teachers in their culminating clinical experience; student teaching calendars outline placement dates and deadlines.

Required Forms

This paperwork must on be on file in the Educator Preparation Office:

• Student Teaching Placement Agreement Form

Handbooks

• All Unit Student Teaching Handbook - All Certification Programs
• Early Childhood
• Elementary Education
• Music Education
• Physical Education
• Secondary Handbook

Student Teaching Evaluation Forms

• Clinical Experience Evaluation Form and Rubric
• Clinical Experience Observation Form
• Teacher Candidate Dispositions Assessment and Rubric

Student Teaching Calendar

It is the student teaching candidate’s responsibility to ensure that there is no scheduling conflicts for their attendance of the student teaching seminar course and the start of one’s placement. For upcoming semesters of student teaching, please verify the start date of your seminar course and placement by contacting the Educator Preparation Office.

• Early Childhood Education
• Elementary Education
• Secondary Education