Requirements For Admission To Student Teaching - Office of Teacher Services

Requirements For Admission To Student Teaching

FORMAL ADMISSION TO TEACHER EDUCATION ONE SEMESTER PRIOR TO APPLICATION (TA File Complete)
COMPLETION OF PREREQUISITES
1. All professional education courses and all elementary and middle grade specialty area courses must be complete with a grade of “C” or higher.
2. At least one full semester of courses completed at Western Kentucky University. (Graduate students who are completing certification requirements must have the equivalent of one summer session - 6 semester hours.)
3. At least three-fourths of the major area or area of concentration must be completed. (Middle grades must have all courses completed in the requested subject area for student teaching.) If student teaching is allowed in the minor, all of the minor must be completed prior to student teaching.
GRADE POINT AVERAGE
1. Overall - 2.5
2. Specialization - 2.5
  1. If secondary - 2.5 in the area in which you student teach
  2. If middle grades - 2.5 in both specialty areas, even though student teaching in only one
3. Professional Education - 2.5
4. Disposition Averages of 3 or higher in all areas and Critical Performance Averages of 2.5 or higher in all areas.
SENIOR STANDING - completion of at least 90 semester hours
VALID AND CURRENT* MEDICAL EXAMINATION, including tuberculin test. State of KY and Federal criminal records checks to be done in assigned school districts after your student teaching placement has been made. *Not older than one year from the end of the semester you plan to student teach.
MORAL, SOCIAL, AND ETHICAL BEHAVIOR must be acceptable in the school community and the community at large.
CERTAIN COURSEWORK MAY NOT BE TAKEN DURING STUDENT TEACHING without written permission from the Director of Teacher Services. If you are planning to take a course during student teaching, you must email the student teaching office, lil.davis@wku.edu, to ensure that it does not conflict with state or university regulations.