Join us as a cooperating teacher, and test what our students learn at the university against the demands of professional practice in your classroom. The teacher education programmes at the College of Education place a great deal of value on school-based experiences for our students.
Student teaching allows prospective teachers to confront teaching as a career for the first time.
Our students begin to see themselves as teachers, and assess their own suitability for the profession. Under the guidance of experienced educators, they carefully examine the practice of education, observe teachers and students in classrooms, apply ideas they encounter in the College of Education to actual classroom settings, and test those ideas against the traditions and demands of practice. Student teachers and interns are not, however, seasoned professionals, and it is important to remember that they will come to the College of Education, and to their first student teaching experiences with widely varying levels of maturity, experience and commitment. Student teaching allows students to gain insight into the realities of teaching and foster their personal commitment to teaching. The internship allows them to experience the challenges of teaching as a full time educator, and gain the refinement necessary to begin careers in classrooms of their own.