Teacher Certification (Domestic): Field Experience
Teacher of Record Internship
Candidates complete a one-year (two semester) teaching paid internship during which time they are
employed full time as the 'Teacher of Record' in their content field. In this position, candidates
receive the salary and benefits of a first-year teacher.
Candidates secure their own teaching position through the application/interview process. Currently,
there is not a shortage of EC-4 Generalist teachers. Since it is most difficult to obtain an EC-4
teaching position, you are encouraged to be flexible and open to additional content areas, i.e. 4-8
Generalist.
Once a candidate is hired by a district, the candidate is enrolled in EDTC 5700--You’re Hired. This course
provides detailed information for the newly hired teacher. All hired candidates are required to submit self-reflections
and classroom reflections during their field experience.
Supervision during Field Experience
The candidate teacher is assigned an  program supervisor who will make
periodic classroom visits and work closely with the mentor teacher to ensure a successful teaching
experience for the candidate. Also, by state mandate, each school district must provide an on-campus
mentor for the beginning classroom teacher. Often the first-year teacher of record is expected
to pay the school district for the service, typically via payroll deduction. As costs and arrangements
may vary from district to district, we recommend asking your hiring school district for its policy
for mentor teachers.
House Bill 1 – Teacher Mentoring Programs
HB1 will provide funding for school districts to assign mentors to each classroom teacher with less
than two years of teaching experience.
Teachers assigned as mentors must teach in the same school and (to the extent practical) teach the
same subject or grade level as the teacher being mentored.
The education commissioner must adopt rules to require that mentors complete research-based training
programs and have at least three full years of teaching experience with a superior record of improving
student performance.
The program is estimated to cost the state $13.3 million for Fiscal Year 2007 (School Year 2006-2007),
increasing to $14.4 million by Fiscal Year 2011 (School Year 2010-2011).
Funding to districts may only be used for providing teacher stipends, scheduling time for mentor teachers
and for other specified purposes.
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