Waukesha is excited to partner with several universities in the area to host field placement students and student teachers. The partnership is reciprocal. We offer a place for future teachers to experience hands-on real world training to obtain their license. We receive an extra set of hands in the classroom, a new perspective, reflective professional dialogue, and the ability to train and possibly hire some great new teachers!
Field placement students are placed in schools for about 40-100 hours. This is early in the student's college career, often sophomore and junior year. They are mostly observing, but can jump in and help or co-plan and co-teach if it seems right. All universities will have requirements outlined. Some require the independent teaching of one lesson, while others have removed that requirement at this stage. In order to host a field placement student, you just need one year of experience.
Student teachers are placed for an entire semester and are expected to be planning and teaching. Again, each university will provide guidelines. In order to be eligible to host a student teacher, you need to have three years of teaching experience, one year in your current building, and have taken a supervision course.
Interested in hosting, but need the course? UW-Oshkosh offers a free online course linked here. At this time, the district does not track if teachers took a supervision course since it can be taken from a variety of institutions. If you are unsure if you took a course, I suggest just taking the UW-Oshkosh option. All requests are filtered through the building principal, so potential candidates or their university contact should not contact teachers directly. If your principal sends an inquiry, consider helping out!
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