Student Teaching Is Integral to Your Learning
Becoming a teacher requires hard work and commitment to making a difference in the lives of students. When you become an Antioch student, you will be closely guided and assessed during all field experiences. You will develop the skills and knowledge needed to lead a successful teaching career.
Antioch's student teachers are placed in public and private schools that have diverse student populations and partner with excellent, certificated mentor teachers. You will first be an observer and placed in a variety of classrooms for the field experience portion of your learning. For one week in each of the first three quarters of the program, you will observe an experienced teacher and his/her classroom. Your observation continues with an additional two weeks in the same classroom where you will be student teaching. You are a student teacher for ten weeks. This means you will need to be available for 15 weeks of classroom observation/student teaching as part of the program.
Antioch partners with schools in Seattle, Everett and Tacoma. In Seattle, elementary school partnerships include Adams, Green Lake and Roxhill.
Experience the Full Support of Antioch Faculty and Partnering Schools
During student teaching, you create lesson plans that address the state learning goals for various grade levels. You will participate as an intern in the daily life of a classroom teacher, including attending faculty meetings, committee work and parent conferences. You will be assigned a university supervisor who will observe you at least once a week and meet with you to discuss your progress on the Pedagogy Assessment Tool.
When you finish student teaching, you will complete your endorsement portfolio. When all required student teaching documents are submitted, documenting that you have met the state and university competencies, you will be issued a temporary K-8 teaching permit or secondary math or science teaching permit by Antioch's certification officer, Rita Hunter.
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