Placements

• Placements

Student Teaching Evaluation Forms

• 554 form

• 555 form

Student Teaching

• Student teaching handbook

• Assistance Plans

• Teaching performance expectations

Applying for Student Teaching

• It is your responsibility to meet the Credential Office (CO) application deadlines for student teaching

• The CO determines whether you are eligible to student teach and communicates this information to you by email. It is your responsibility to work with the CO to understand the conditions you must meet to become eligible.

• Once you are found eligible, the CO forwards your name to the Secondary Education Department (SED), and the Subject Matter Coordinator in your subject will contact you and initiate your placement at a school.

• You must also request a permission number to enroll in SED 554/S or SED 555/S or SED 555BL/S.

• You must self-enroll in SOLAR in these courses; this will not be done for you.

• If you do not meet registration and fee deadlines, the University may disenroll you.

The School Assignment/Placement

• Teacher candidates must meet two requirements in order to formally begin a student teaching assignment in the field, working directly with secondary school students, including classroom observations:

1. The candidate must be eligible to student teach.

2. The candidate must be officially enrolled in the appropriate student teaching courses.

There are no exceptions to this policy. Both conditions must be met before the candidate is allowed to do any fieldwork, including observations and teaching. Note: Many schools and districts are now requiring additional clearance tests and documentation, above and beyond what CSUN’s CO requires. You must meet these requirements as well before you can begin your assignment. Please attend to these as quickly as possible so as not to delay your start.

• It is the department’s responsibility to arrange the placement, not yours. You may indicate preferences to your Subject Matter Coordinator, but the Coordinator must take into account a number of other factors and may not be able to accommodate your requests.

• CSUN has partnerships with many secondary schools in the San Fernando Valley, and long-standing relationships and contracts with LAUSD and other nearby school districts. Student teachers are placed in these schools whenever possible.

• In general, in order to give you diversity of experience and to comply with program standards from the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing, at least one semester of supervised instruction must include a cross-cultural experience and one assignment must include at least one class that enrolls English learners.

• There is no separate CLAD Credential option. All candidates in the program are “CLAD-prepared” – able to assist English learners with content learning and English Language Development in content-area classrooms.

• o ensure that you are provided with a qualified University Supervisor in your subject area, school placements are located within a 20-mile radius of CSUN.

• One of your student-teaching assignments will take place at a middle school and the other at a high school; the order does not matter. Exceptions are made when the nature of the subject requires it.

• CSUN must wait for schools to make decisions on Cooperating Teachers and classroom assignments for the student teacher. In a few cases, the assignment may not be finalized until after the school semester has begun.

• Once you know your placement school, contact the school’s Assistant Principal and Cooperating Teacher(s) and arrange to meet and begin planning for the semester. Discuss with them the fact sheet entitled “Responsibilities of the Cooperating Teacher in SED 554 or SED 555.” This is critical, because your University Supervisor will not make a first visit until after school has started.

Professional Expectations

• You are expected to observe and/or teach at the school site from the beginning to end of that school’s semester or track, independent of the beginning and end of CSUN’s semester, and independent of when the Progress Report or Student Teaching Evaluation are due and submitted.

• You are expected to attend your assigned class or classes every day they meet, except in cases of illness or a family emergency. Absences exceeding 5 school days will normally result in a No Credit for the student teaching and seminar courses and a dismissal from the assignment.

• You must complete a lesson plan for every lesson you teach and keep the plans in the classroom in a binder that is accessible to your Cooperating Teacher and University Supervisor.

When a Problem Arises

• If the student teacher is not demonstrating satisfactory progress, the University Supervisor, in collaboration with the Cooperating Teacher, develops an Assistance Plan. This plan is agreed upon and signed by all parties.

• If the school becomes dissatisfied with your performance or professionalism, the administration may terminate your assignment at any time. In most cases, this will result in an automatic No Credit for the student teaching and seminar courses.

• Candidates who receive grades of No Credit in two different semesters of student teaching (that is, in any combination of SED 554/S and SED 555/BL/S) are disqualified from the credential program.

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