Student teaching is a full-time placement that lasts one full semester, per the Georgia Professional Standards Commission. It is designed to provide the student teacher with opportunities to practice and demonstrate the skills, knowledge and behaviors developed during the teacher education program. Teacher candidates gradually take on the duties and responsibilities of the mentor teacher; they have full responsibility for all planning, instruction, assessment, management, and duties for a minimum of four weeks. Throughout student teaching, candidates also complete Student Teaching Project assignments in LiveText.

In certain instances, an internship may be completed in lieu of student teaching.  In an internship, the teacher candidate must already have a bachelor’s degree, not necessarily in education and have been hired by a regionally accredited school in a grade level/subject that matches his/her major and certification she is seeking.  The employing school works with the candidate to secure a IN4T non-renewable certificate and assigns a mentor teacher who holds a professional level, renewable Georgia teaching certificate and has completed at least three years of teaching.  Brenau assigns a university supervisor who works with the candidate.  The candidate completes assignments, much like those in student teaching, in her own classroom in an internship during their last semester.