STUDENT TEACHING SERVICES

To qualify for student teaching, candidates must be admitted to the Whittier College Teacher Credential Program and have completed all prerequisites and subject matter requirements.
 

Types of Student Teaching

1. Traditional Student Teacher
(Student teaching in the classroom of a Master Teacher)

	Duration: 1 semester
	12 credits + 1 credit seminar
	2 eight week placements
	Multiple Subject 2 master teachers 2 placements: primary (K-2) & upper (3-6)
	Single Subject 4 periods of equivalent 2 levels of instruction 2 areas of content

2. Intern Student Teacher
(Teaching in ones own classroom while employed by the district)

	Duration: 2 semesters
	6 credits during both fall and spring semesters + 1 credit seminar each semester
	1 on-site supporter conducts 4 observations each semester

Documentation to Student Teach

The following documentation is required to student teach.  Copies all of all forms must be included within your application packet.

1. Intent to Student Teach form

2. Student teaching application

3. California Basic Educational
   Skills Test (CBEST)

4. Verification of subject matter
   Multiple Subject-CSET
   Single Subject-CSET or equivalent or approved subject matter waiver

5. Live Scan Fingerprinting & Certificate of Clearance OR 30 day substitute permit, emergency credential, or
   intern credential

6. U.S. Constitution requirement (coursework or exam)

7. Acknowledgment of Risk & Statement of Ability to Participate form

8. Advising transcript documenting credential coursework

521 Student Teaching Seminar

This course is a professional development seminar designed for traditional and intern student teachers concurrently enrolled in EDUC 520: Student Teaching.  Topics covered are intended to assist teachers in understanding classroom and school procedures focusing on Teacher Performance Assessment Task #4.  1 credit.  This course is for CREDIT only; no letter grade will be assigned. 

By the end of the course, you should:

 1.  Recognize personal strengths and weaknesses as you use a variety of teaching models, instructional strategies, and assessment methods. 

2.  Begin to internalize practice of professional habits of mind concepts and the principles and standards of the teaching profession via the California Teaching Performance Expectations (TPEs) and California Standards for the Teaching Profession (CSTP).

3.  Complete Teaching Performance Assessment (TPA) Task 4.