C & I 590 Graduate Internship

Course Description:

Offered autumn and spring. Student teaching is the capstone experience for the teacher education candidate and represents the transition from student to professional teacher. Students have the opportunity to combine theory and practice to develop effective teaching skills in an assigned school classroom. School professionals collaborate with university personnel to plan a progressive sequence of teaching responsibilities in a supervised classroom setting.

Eligibility:

• Must have full admission to the Teacher Education Program
• Senior post-Baccalaureate or graduate status.
• Minimum cumulative GPA of 2.75 and 2.75 in the teaching major and teaching minor.
• No grade of less than “C” in all required courses.
• Completed EDU 202, 221, 370, 345 and received evaluations of proficient for the majority of the areas listed as criteria on EDU 202, 395, 491 field experience evaluations
• No “incomplete” in courses required for a major/minor.
• Passed The University of Montana Writing Assessment Exam
• Consent of the Director of Field Experiences

Elementary education students must have:

• Completed all prerequisite courses and EDU 331, 397, 497 (Mathematics, Social Studies, Science and Reading)

Secondary and K – 12 endorsement students must have:

• Completed required methods course(s).
• Completed two-thirds of the requirements for the teaching major and two-thirds of the semester hours required for the teaching minor, if any, with grades of “C” or better.
• Their respective department committees must also approve music majors and foreign language majors.