Standard III--Element A:
Collaboration between Unit and School Partners
The unit, its school partners, and other members of the
professional community design, deliver, and evaluate field experiences and
clinical practice to help candidates develop their knowledge, skills, and
dispositions. The unit and its school partners jointly determine the
specific placement of student teachers and interns for other professional
roles to provide appropriate learning experiences.
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Standard
III--Element B:
Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of Field Experiences and Clinical Practice
Field
experiences facilitate candidates’ development as professional educators by
providing opportunities for candidates to observe in schools and other
agencies, tutor students, assist teachers or other school personnel, attend
school board meetings, and participate in education-related community events
prior to clinical practice. Both field experiences and clinical practice
reflect the unit’s conceptual framework(s) and help candidates continue to
develop the content, professional, and pedagogical knowledge, skills, and
dispositions delineated in standards. Clinical practice allows candidates to
use information technology to support teaching and learning. Clinical practice
is sufficiently extensive and intensive for candidates to demonstrate
proficiencies in the professional roles for which they are preparing.
Criteria for
clinical faculty are clear and known to all of the involved parties. Clinical
faculty are accomplished school professionals. Clinical faculty provide
regular and continuing support for student teachers and other interns through
such processes as observation, conferencing, group discussion, email, and the
use of other technology.
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Standard
III--Element C:
Candidates’
Development and Demonstration of Knowledge, Skills, and Dispositions To Help
All Students Learn
Entry and exit criteria exist for candidates in clinical
practice. Assessments used in clinical practice are linked to candidate
competencies delineated in professional, state, and institutional standards.
Multiple assessment strategies are used to evaluate candidates’ performance
and effect on student learning. Candidates, school faculty, and college or
university faculty jointly conduct assessments of candidate performance
throughout clinical practice. Both field experiences and clinical practice
allow time for reflection and include feedback from peers and clinical
faculty. Field experiences and clinical practice provide opportunities for
candidates to develop and demonstrate knowledge, skills, and dispositions for
helping all students learn. All candidates participate in field experiences or
clinical practice that include students with exceptionalities and students
from diverse ethnic, racial, gender, and socioeconomic groups.
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