Supervised Participation is a clinical experience of at least 120 contact hours in which you serve as a full-time associate with one or more teachers. This enables you to affirm your choice to teach and begin to put educational theory into practice. Student Teaching provides you the opportunity to actually teach in a school for an entire semester. BVU students teach at elementary and secondary schools throughout the state of Iowa. Many education majors consider it to be the most valuable part of their preparation.
Student teaching is meant to be the culminating experience in teacher education.
The Dean's Fellowship Program is designed to honor students for outstanding scholastic achievement and demonstrated extracurricular leadership. Dean's Fellows may compete for annual stipends and participate in special topic classes and opportunities.