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Graduate Secondary Teaching Certification Program

Resources for 40-Hour Field and Student Teaching Experiences

 

Graduate secondary teacher certification students are required to complete a 40-hour field experience as part of their methods course. 

 

How to obtain the field experiences:

·        The Office of Field Services (OFS) must communicate with the school and make the arrangements for your field experience before you begin the experience.

·        The field experience must total 40 hours and will completed during the last 5 weeks of the semester.  

·        Please send to the OFS secretary an email giving your present mailing address. 

·        If you live in Pennsylvania, the OFS will set up your field experience placement based upon close proximity to your home and notify you.

·        If you live outside of Pennsylvania, please email the name of the school district(s) where you would like to be placed.  The placement will be made according to this information whenever possible.

·        The OFS will try to set up your field experience and student teaching placements within the same school.

·        Once your placement has been scheduled, you will receive the information via email.

 

The forms used for the 40 hour field experience are:

 

Graduate secondary teacher certification students are required to complete a 12-week student teaching experience as the last course in the certification program.  Whenever possible, both the 40-hour field and the 12-week student teaching experiences will be scheduled with the same cooperating teacher in the same school.  Please follow the directions above to help the OFS set up your field experiences. 

 

The Secondary Teacher Certification Program Cooperating Teacher & Student Teacher Manual
is to be used by both the student teacher and the cooperating teacher throughout the student teaching experience.  Click here to access this manual.

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