Student Teaching Overview & Information

Student Teaching Overview

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Syllabus

Iowa Requirements

Please remember, Graceland University teacher candidates are attending an Iowa university, so their initial teaching license will be issued from Iowa. Candidates are governed by Iowa teaching requirements, and the current Iowa law does not allow candidates to be paid during student teaching, even if they are completing their student teaching in another state.  

Student Teaching Requirement

All education students must complete a practicum before they are eligible to student teach.  Check with your advisor if you are unsure which practicum to apply for. The student teaching semester is the capstone experience for the Teacher Education Program. Depending on your endorsement area(s), student teaching placements are 14 weeks in length, or may be divided into 6, 7, or 8 week segments. This experience provides the opportunity for you to sharpen your professional skills as a caring, reflective, collaborative leader through daily practice and with frequent feedback from the classroom teacher and the supervising Graceland faculty. Most teacher candidates will be placed in a district within 40 miles of the Graceland Campus.  
 
 
You must complete the Distance Application if you would like a placement beyond the 40-mile radius from Graceland University.  If you are in secondary education, you will not be placed in the high school you attended.
 
Placements are arranged by the Field Office. Please do not contact districts yourself.  That can complicate placements for other education students. Once placements have been made, they are not subject to change at the request of the candidate.
 
Work with your advisor to determine the type of placement(s) you will need for your endorsement area(s).

Student Teaching Courses

  • EDUC4400 Elementary Student Teaching (K-6)
  • EDUC4420 Secondary Student Teaching (7-12)
  • EDUC4440 Early Childhood Student Teaching
  • EDUC4450 Combination K-6 and 7-12 Student Teaching
  • EDUC4460 Elementary and Mild/Moderate Student Teaching
  • EDUC4470 Secondary and Mild/Moderate Student Teaching
  • EDUC4480 Elementary and Secondary Mild/Moderate Student Teaching

Diverse Experiences

GSOE Diverse experience definition and priority schools lists:   

 

Definition:  Candidates must have a depth and breadth of clinical experiences working with diverse populations within priority schools.  Priority schools are defined as those with 2 or more subgroups above the state average as reported annually in the Iowa School Performance Profile. Data from the Iowa School Performance Profile will be reviewed annually.   

    1. Candidates must have a minimum of 2 different experiences within priority schools or schools meeting the criteria of a priority school.   
    2. Priority Schools within the Lamoni Campus region include:  Lamoni Community School District, Central Decatur Community School District, Mount Ayr Community School District 
    3. Priority Schools within the Independence Campus region include:  Fort Osage R-1 School District, Independence (048077) School District, Raytown C-2 School District, North Kansas (74) School District, Liberty (53) Public School 
    4. Priority Schools within the Trenton (NCMC) Campus region include:  Spickard R-2 School District, Grundy R-5 School District, Gilman City R-4 School District, Chillicothe R-2 School District, South Harrison R-2 School District, Trenton R-IX School District 

Acceptance BEFORE Application

You must be accepted into the Teacher Education program before applying for or being placed in a Student Teaching experience.
 
To check on your acceptance status, choose Enrollment Checklist from the Student tab in My Graceland.  Once all requirements are met, your name will automatically go before the Teacher Education Committee at their next meeting. You will receive a letter after the meeting explaining your acceptance status.
 
Contact your advisor or Garnet Coulthard (coulthar@graceland.edu). if you have questions about your acceptance status.
 
 

Program Handbook for Teacher Education

The Program Handbook for Teacher Education spans the entire program starting with the Entry Workshop through student teaching and licensure. The handbook has been produced as .pdf and is available to download to your device. Forms and rubrics are included as links and video tutorials are included throughout the book whenever a Chalk and Wire task is described.  You also have the ability to highlight text or add your own bookmarks and notes within the book.  Please read the Handbook FAQ first before you get started to help you understand how to navigate and find what you need.  

Handbooks, by nature, are subject to change.  It might be something as simple as fixing broken links. 

Be sure to remove any previous handbooks you may have previously downloaded .

 

Before You Apply for Student Teaching

Apply to Graduate

You should submit the Apply to Graduate application BEFORE submitting the application for student teaching. You should apply to graduate approximately six months or more before your intended graduation date.   When you apply to graduate, the Registrar's Office will send you and your advisor a Graduation Audit to determine additional coursework that might be needed to graduate.  Your advisor will need this audit before he/she can approve your student teaching application.

Candidates preparing for student teaching need to meet with their education advisor first to be sure that they have completed all of the preliminary requirements.  For Student Teaching, you will also need to create and be ready to share your field experience portfolio you created in Chalk and Wire.  Here is a sample of what a field experience portfolio looks like. 

 

Sample Field Experience Portfolio

 

If you need assistance with your portfolio, complete instructions can be found here:

 

Field Experience Portfolio Guidelines and Instructions

 

 

Your professional portfolio will be shared with the school district when the Graceland Field Office requests a student teaching placement for you. This is your professional introduction to the school and should demonstrate that you can effectively communicate information about yourself both through carefully constructed documents and by using other visually appealing media.

 

Most education students will create this portfolio during the semester before the application is due.  Teacher candidates will continue to revise and improve it until they are ready to apply for student teaching. If you have not started your field experience portfolio, follow the instructions above or contact the field office. One very important step is making sure your professional portfolio is complete and meets the expected quality levels so that you make a great first impression. 

 

Before you begin the student teaching application, make sure you have  the link (URL) for your Field Experience Portfolio available to attach to your application. This portfolio will be sent  as your introduction to the school district(s) you have chosen in the application.  Regardless of the where you are in the process of creating your Field Experience Portfolio, (meaning even if it is not complete), you can still create and share the URL to include in your student teaching application. The field office will work with you on polishing up your portfolio before they begin making placement requests.

For teacher candidates desiring to student teach beyond 40 miles from their home campus, an additional form needs to be completed and submitted to the field office. It will assist the field office in securing your placement. Distance Placement Form

 

 

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Application Deadlines

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Application Deadlines

Field Experience Application Deadline

 

  • Summer 2025 Practicum 
    • October 1, 2024-January 31, 2025

 

  • Fall 2025 Practicum or Student Teaching
    • December 1, 2024 - March 31, 2025

 

  • Spring 2026 Practicum or Student Teaching
    • April 1, 2025-September 30, 2025

 

Student Teaching Applications

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The link below will take you to the Student Teaching Application page. Only students admitted to Teacher Education may see this page. This page has additional information you need to understand before you submit your application.

Student Teaching Application

All About Student Teaching

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Student Teaching Requirements

The Student Teaching Overview covers all the requirements that each candidate will need to complete during student teaching.   Requirements for a successful student teaching experience:
 
  • Document560 hours of full-time teaching on a time sheet signed by the cooperating teacher. Iowa law specifies that the student teaching experience must be a minimum of 14 consecutive weeks. Once students are in their seats, a day that counts for the cooperating teacher counts for you. You must attend all meetings required for the cooperating teacher.
  • Create plans for each lesson that is taught
  • Observe, participate, and assume full-time teaching responsibilities or assume planning responsibilities during co-teaching
  • Adhere to school regulations and student teaching expectations
  • Submit required artifacts in Chalk and Wire
  • Submit these additional items in Chalk and Wire:
    • Disposition Self-Evaluation (Mid and final)
    • InTASC Self-Evaluation
    • Program Evaluation
    • Post Multicultural and Technology Surveys
  • Participate in an exit interview with your School of Education supervisor
    • Fill out the Alumni Contact Information form and give to your supervisor during the interview

Placement (Local or Distance?)

Placements are made in schools within a 40-mile radius of Lamoni or Independence.  You must make this decision BEFORE completing the application. If you request and are placed in a school district outside the 40 mile radius from your campus, you will incur an additional fees for your university supervisor.

 

Two applications are provided: one for placements within the 40 mile radius and one for distance placements. Review the special requirements for distance placements below. 

 

Teacher candidates in secondary education will not be placed in buildings where they attended high school or worked as a paraprofessional.

If you desire to be placed outside of the 40 mile radius, you must complete an additional formal application process. The Field Experience Portfolio  must accompany your application as well as the following extra documents for a distance placement.  These should be uploaded separately into the application.

 

  • Distance Placement Chart - Download and complete the chart, then upload with your application.  
  • Letter of Request that includes your current and cumulative GPA, the name and location of the school(s) desired, your understanding that a distance supervisor will be arranged for you, and your agreement to pay for supervision.
  • Letter of Support from your Academic / School of Education advisor

Graceland University does not arrange student teaching placements outside of the United States.  Student teaching is completed in the United States unless you participate in an exchange program approved by Graceland University. For information about international student teaching (or other placement questions), contact the Field Office (fieldoffice@graceland.edu). 

Student Teaching FAQ

You are required to submit a journal every week to your supervisor. Each journal needs to include in the heading the week you re submitting it for.  (for example, Journal Week 1, Journal Week 2, etc. )  We advise you to keep reflective notes throughout each day to use when you write this reflective journal. You need to make sure that you correlate the INTASC principles to what you are doing and seeing in the classroom, and include the references in your journal. You should address two - three INTASC principles each week, and all 10 INTASC principles by the end of the student teaching period.google play store apk tiktok video downloader Android Auto google play services apk Google Services Framework متجر بلاي متجر بلاي متجر بلاي متجر بلاي ببجي كورية ببجي الكورية  تنزيل واتساب  تنزيل ببجيتحميل يوتيوب
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Check with your university supervisor for scheduled Capstone days during the semester. تنزيل واتس اب
No. Iowa Code requires that a person without a teaching license (a student teacher) cannot be paid.   تنزيل متجر التطبيقاتتنزيل المتجر

Placement (Local or Distance?)

Normally, placements are made in schools within a 40-mile radius of Lamoni or Independence. You must make this decision BEFORE completing the application. If you request and are placed in a school district outside the 40 mile radius, you may incur an additional mileage reimbursement fee for your university supervisor. سينمانا
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Student Teaching Forms

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  • Miscellaneous

    Student Teaching Syllabus
    Required
    2024 student teaching syllabus.pdf
    Student Teaching Checklist
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    Student Teaching Before During After Checklist 2024.pdf
    Student Teaching Overview
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    Suggested Activities for Student Teaching Placement for Student Teacher (student teacher version).docx
    Suggested Activities for 14 Weeks
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    Suggested Activities for Student Teaching Placement for Student Teacher.pdf
    Suggested Activities Each Week
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    Suggested Activities for Student Teaching Placement for Student Teacher.pdf
    All Ten INTASC Standards
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    All 10 InTASC Standards At a Glance.pdf
    Student Teaching Timesheet
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    student teaching timesheet.docx
    LESSON PLAN TEMPLATE (.PDF)
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    2021 Lesson Plan Template updated .pdf
    2021 Lesson Plan Template
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    2021 Lesson Plan Template updated.docx
    Guide for the Lesson Plan Template
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    2021 Guide for the Lesson Plan Template.pdf
    Work Sample Instructions
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    Student Teaching Work Sample Instructions.pdf
    Student Teaching Journal Instructions
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    2022 Journal Instructions_ST.pdf
    Video Permission
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    Example video permission.pdf
    Video Self-Reflection and Evaluation

    To access the video reflection form, click on Add Content. Then choose Form, and Insert Content Here. Choose Video Self-Evaluation (Current).  Then Save.

     

    Open the form, enter your evaluations, and click SAVE at the bottom before you close it.  You can go back to it as many times as necessary but remember to save each time.  When it is complete, submit it to your University Supervisor for assessment.

    Required
    Video Evaluation and Reflection 2020.pdf
    Exit Interview
    Required
    Exit Interview 2020.docx
    Alumni Contact Information
    Required
    Alumni_Contact_Information.pdf
    Iowa Teaching Standards
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    IowaTeachingStandardsAndCriteria_0.pdf
    University Supervisor Student Teaching Checklist
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    University Supervisor Student Teaching Checklist 2024.pdf
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