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Student Teaching

Teachers need training in human relations to facilitate effective relations with students from varied backgrounds. The required human relations component of teacher certification includes tutoring special students for a minimum of 50 hours, and enrolling in designated courses. The burden of the responsibility for carrying out these activities lies with the student, under faculty direction and with faculty approval. EDU 373 Field Experience in Education includes 50 hours of tutoring.

Student teachers must meet all statutory requirements for their teaching license prior to enrollment in student teaching coursework. Adequate preparation in environmental education is required for licenses in early childhood, middle childhood to early adolescence, science, and social studies. Social science majors and minors (except psychology) also need adequate instruction in cooperative marketing and consumer cooperatives, which may be satisfied by taking cooperative marketing as a non-credit course. Arrangements for this requirement can be made through the chair of the education division.

To be admitted to student teaching, education students must:

  1. Be admitted to a teacher certification program at least two years prior to the student teaching semester;
  2. Complete all applicable state content knowledge requirements, including passing scores on standardized exams (Praxis II) and assessment-in-action exercises;
  3. Submit a course plan demonstrating that all required coursework will be completed prior to student teaching, including the submission of all transfer coursework;
  4. Earn a minimum G.P.A. of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale in all college coursework applied to the general studies requirements, the major, the minor, and the professional sequence; and
  5. Complete and submit a student teaching application form at least one year prior to the student teaching semester.

To be recommended for state certification upon completion of student teaching, education students must have completed the following requirements:

  1. All Lakeland College education division course requirements and all current statutory requirements;
  2. Have a minimum GPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale in all Lakeland coursework required for the major, minor (where certifiable), and professional sequence, exclusive of the student teaching semester; and
  3. Have successfully completed student teaching with a grade of “C” or better and received a positive recommendation from all cooperating teachers.