A major will accumulate well over the 100-clock hours required by the state in this teacher preparation component. These clinical experiences afford the major at MacMurray College time in elementary classrooms working beside a teacher, with students, and with the paperwork. They provide an opportunity for the major to see a teacher implementing a strategy read about in their textbook or discussed in class. And most importantly they provide the major a chance to plan, teach, and evaluate their own lessons along with handling the classroom's discipline. The major is placed, supervised, and observed in a teaching role during these clinicals by a department staff member.
Student teaching is completed either semester of the senior year.
It is a fifteen week experience that includes an every other week seminar on campus with fellow student teachers. Faculty Guy F. Crumley , MSEd, BA, Director of Elementary Education Program and assistant professor earned his MSEd at Western Illinois University and his BA at MacMurray College. He also directs on campus the Minority Tutoring Program, a component of the Illinois Partnership for Minority Achievement. Mr. Crumley also has served on numerous community and church boards. He is a member of the National Education Association, the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, and Phi Delta Kappa.