The Yearlong Internship Program
A yearlong program (September – June)
- Pre-Autumn (August)
- Begin with cooperating teachers
- District/school LID days
- In school when teachers start (first week of September)
- Work with teacher
- Observe
- Work with students (1-on-1, small groups)
- Take attendance
- Make mini-presentations
- Teach mini-lessons
- Team teach
- Research
- Grade papers
- First (Fall) Quarter:
- Five weeks in one classroom and (optional) rotate into second classroom.
- Minimum of 10 – 12 hours per week (2 hours/day) in the classroom.
- Classroom participation scheduled according to student’s
- course schedule. (Ideal: 2 hour block in the morning per day)
- Attend and complete C.W.U. class schedule each quarter.
- Encouraged not to take over 14 credits or more than 3 – 4 classes.
- Practicum: EDCS 492 – Four (4) credits per quarter
- Seminars/Meetings: One per month
- Second (Winter) Quarter:
- Rotate into third classroom (optional/depending on school)
- Repeat objectives/requirements of first quarter.
- Third (Spring) Quarter:
- Student teach in the classroom or one of the three classrooms observed.
- The Benefits:
- Full year in the same school
- Interaction with students and work with teachers
- Participate in the total school program
- Connection with teachers in the school with possible county/state network.
- More marketable
- Assured placement for student teaching
- Intern sub certificate
- Pre-Autumn (August)
- Begin with cooperating teachers
- District/school LID days
- In school when teachers start (first week of September)
- Work with teacher
- Observe
- Work with students (1-on-1, small groups)
- Take attendance
- Make mini-presentations
- Teach mini-lessons
- Team teach
- Research
- Grade papers
- First (Fall) Quarter:
- Five weeks in one classroom and (optional) rotate into second classroom.
- Minimum of 10 – 12 hours per week (2 hours/day) in the classroom.
- Classroom participation scheduled according to student’s
- course schedule. (Ideal: 2 hour block in the morning per day)
- Attend and complete C.W.U. class schedule each quarter.
- Encouraged not to take over 14 credits or more than 3 – 4 classes.
- Practicum: EDCS 492 – Four (4) credits per quarter
- Seminars/Meetings: One per month
- Second (Winter) Quarter:
- Rotate into third classroom (optional/depending on school)
- Repeat objectives/requirements of first quarter.
- Third (Spring) Quarter:
- Student teach in the classroom or one of the three classrooms observed.
- The Benefits:
- Full year in the same school
- Interaction with students and work with teachers
- Participate in the total school program
- Connection with teachers in the school with possible county/state network.
- More marketable
- Assured placement for student teaching
- Intern sub certificate
