Student Teaching Convocation
Office of Field Experiences
ALL of the following must be completed BEFORE you will be placed for Student
Teaching:
3.00 GPA
Passed West-B
Satisfied all pre-requisites
Completed Character & Fitness form
Documented proof of liability insurance for $1 million with SWEA
(*except for Fall Quarter)
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Completed fingerprinting
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Registration for West-E
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Application for Certification
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Full admittance to Teacher Certification Program
10. 75% completion of major/minor to include pre-requisite courses
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Attendance at all seminars is MANDATORY.
Dress professionally.
Attend any available district curriculum
trainings.
Beat your CT to the classroom each morning.
CT dismisses you at the end of the day.
Receive criticism gracefully.
Always offer help. Look for things that need
to be done.
Never do personal business on school time.
edTPA – Teacher Performance Assessment.
 Email is considered public and often stored
on servers.
 Email can be subpoenaed in a court of law.
 No personal email or business on school time.
State law requires:
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No inappropriate conduct.
No inappropriate touching.
 No inappropriate language.
 No inappropriate clothing.
 No smoking on school grounds.
 No drinking on school grounds.
 No illegal drug use on school grounds.
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 Working during Student Teaching is
STRONGLY discouraged.
Student Teaching is your job for a minimum of
10 weeks.
All seminars are mandatory - state requirement.
Orientation Seminar
WEA Professional Ethics & Law Seminar
edTPA Seminar
edTPA Follow-Up Seminar (*optional – check
with Field Supervisor)
5. Classroom Management
6. Job Search
7. Exit Seminar
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 Your application will be read by several
people.
 Given to school district personnel, Principals,
cooperating teachers.
 No misspellings.
 Proofread your work.
 If you need help with your resume, the Career
Services Center can help.
 Write a resume that addresses your talents
and experience working with children.
 If you struggle with writing, go to the Writing
Center. They will help you to succeed.
 Strongly recommended:
As you complete
each task of the edTPA, take it to the Writing
Center and ask them to critique it.
You will receive a confirmation email
once you submit the online application.
Not all schools districts listed on the application
are available each quarter. This is due to the
varying availability of supervision each quarter.
Step One
The Field Supervisor submits the student teacher’s application materials to the
student teacher’s preferred school districts indicated on the application.
Step Two
The school districts send out a district-wide email asking for experienced teachers to
volunteer to be a cooperating (mentor) teacher.
Step Three
The school district waits to see if any teachers step forward to take on a student
teacher.
Note: If no teacher is willing to serve as a cooperating (mentor) teacher, we must move
on to step four.
Step Four
The Field Supervisor submits the student teacher’s application materials to the
second and third choice school districts, and the process begins all over again.
Step Five
You will hear from your Field Supervisor when your Field Supervisor hears from a
school district about a possible placement.
Step Six
YOU then contact the CT IMMEDIATELY to arrange to interview with the teacher.
The building Principal may also want to interview you.
Note: This is an interview…just like a job interview. Dress appropriately.
This is your chance to secure a student teaching placement.
DO NOT leave the interview without a confirmation that you can do your student
teaching with that teacher.
Step Seven
YOU contact your Field Supervisor immediately after the interview to confirm that
you have been accepted as a student teacher at the school.
Important Information:
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Some school districts leave student teacher placement up to the individual
schools. This means that the Field Supervisor must contact each individual
school to see if they are interested in taking on a student teacher. This is
extremely time-consuming.
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If you do not hear from your Field Supervisor, do not assume that he/she is not
working on your placement. It simply means that there is no news to share with
you about your placement. You will hear from your Field Supervisor just as soon
as he/she hears from a school district.
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Your Field Supervisor is supervising a full load of student teachers and securing
Field Experience placements at the same time that he/she is trying to place you
for student teaching. It is not uncommon for a Field Supervisor to be handling 30
to 70 different placements at the same time. Your understanding is appreciated
as your Field Supervisor handles countless phone numbers, names, messages,
emails and so forth.
A student teacher can be “pulled” out of Student
Teaching for a variety of reasons:
 Poor scores or ratings on an evaluation.
 Overall attitude.
 Lack of professionalism.
 Principal request to remove student teacher.
 CT request to remove student teacher.
Welcome to the
greatest profession
in the world!