Criteria for clinical faculty are clear and known to all involved parties. Clinical faculty are accomplished school professionals. Clinical faculty provide regular and continuing support for student teachers and other interns through such processes as observation, conferencing, group discussion, email, and the use of other technology. Field experiences allow candidates to apply and reflect on their content, professional, and pedagogical knowledge, skills and dispositions in a variety of settings with students and adults. During clinical practice candidate learning is integrated into the school program and into teaching practice.
Candidates observe and are observed by others.
They interact wit teachers, college or university supervisors, and other interns about their practice regularly and continually. They reflect on and can justify their own practice. Candidates are members of instructional teams in the school and are active participants in professional decisions. They are involved in a variety of school based activities directed at the improvement of teaching and learning, including the use of information technology. Clinical faculty are accomplished school professionals who are jointly selected by the unit and partnering schools.