Graduate Field Experiences
The Drexel School of Education takes great pride in the level of extensive clinical and field-based experiences pre-service teacher candidates have prior to their student teaching. 
Students in Education programs have many opportunities to experience the classroom setting. Many pedagogy-based courses will have at least one clinical, field-based experience component. This allows students the opportunity to put into “practice” learned teaching skills and evaluate their students, first hand, in preparation for their Student Teaching Experience. From the initial course in their academic career at Drexel, through their culminating experience, each candidate will begin to develop a professional portfolio containing described artifacts that they believe show evidence of growth and understanding in the teaching profession, but also examples of what they believe to be evidence of their high caliber of work.
Graduate Student Teaching (minimum 420 hours)
Student teaching is a full-time, 12-week field placement in a carefully selected school under the immediate supervision of a highly competent Cooperating Teacher, in selected cases a classroom-based adjunct clinical instructor, and the general supervision of the Drexel University Field Experience Coordinator. It approximates full-time teaching and is viewed as a culminating experience that provides opportunity to demonstrate what was learned in the professional education courses.
Student Teachers are expected to be committed to excellence in the development of their proficiency as an outstanding teacher. The Student Teacher is a representative of both the University and the teaching profession and in this capacity is expected to uphold high standards of personal and professional standards and ethics.
The twelve weeks devoted to student teaching is a full student load. Student Teachers are to be free from outside responsibilities so that they can function as a full-time member of the staff in the school to which they have been assigned. The required Seminar component, which is linked to the classroom field experience,is EDUC 540: Field Experience (Graduate Student Teaching).
Deadlines and related policies and requirements may be found at
Field Experiences Resources
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