The College of Education recognizes its responsibility to identify, coordinate, and provide student teachers access to support services within the College and University; offer continuing professional development experiences in conjunction with student teaching, such as student teaching seminars and conferences with College faculty and staff; and assist student teachers in dealing with specific difficulties or deficiencies.

Further, because of good rapport with local schools and school systems, supportive administrative and teaching staffs, compatibility of philosophy of training programs, and access to local district resources and support services, the positive framework for quality training experience is enhanced.

The College of Education has neither the personnel nor financial resources to adequately qualify, coordinate, evaluate, and supervise student teaching assignments in locations outside Mobile and Baldwin Counties.

The student teaching clinical field experience is of critical importance. The minimum of experiences during this activity are as follows.

LOG: Each student teacher will maintain a log of experiences. These logs will be given to the University Supervisor for review.

OBSERVATIONS: The University Supervisor will usually visit the student teacher for four to five times for clinical observation purposes and consultation with the Cooperating Teacher.

MID-TERM CONFERENCE: The Cooperating Teacher, University Supervisor and student teacher will have formal conferences to review the student teacher's experiences and plans.

STUDENT TEACHING: The student teacher will be observed in a formal teaching setting. Formal lesson and unit plans will be prepared, the teaching observed and the teaching and materials critiqued by the Cooperating Teacher and the University Supervisor.

The assigned University Supervisor will be available for additional information about the overall student teaching experience at the Orientation.