Marymount University prepares more teachers each year than any other private institution of higher education in Virginia. Interns are in their school full-time, four days a week, Tuesday through Friday. Assignments change to a different grade at the end of the semester. Interns particpate fully in the life of the school and have instructional and grading responsibilities, committee work, and extra-curricular activities. The interns graduate classes are held after school each day at the PDA sites.
University professors are responsible for the interns graduate course work.
In addition, extensive staff development activities are conducted for teachers and interns by school staff and school system specialists. Regular in-service workshops are held by the University coordinators for the interns as well. The University's Coordinator of Off-Campus Education Programs conducts regularly scheduled seminars for the interns. Each PDA site has a Fairfax County Public Schools master teacher who serves as full-time coordinator of the interns activities. Coordinators share the responsibility for supervision and evaluation of the interns with full-time Marymount University faculty members.