Sage Elementary School, Redmond, Student Teaching Placement Site

OSU-Cascades offers a comprehensive student teaching experience in public school classrooms throughout Central Oregon.  The student teaching component is an important part of teacher formation education and meets the graduation requirement of practical experience in the field, utilizing the course content learned in the university classrooms.  OSU-Cascades nine-month student teaching experience coincides with all university classes, allowing you to apply what you are learning as you learn it.

EARLY CHILDHOOD-ELEMENTARY STUDENT TEACHING AUTHORIZATION LEVELS

OSU-Cascades’ MAT students obtain two authorizations: Early Childhood and Elementary.  Six months are spent student teaching in one authorization level and classroom and three months in the other authorization and classroom.  The six month student teaching experience takes place in fall and spring terms, September through December and April through June.  The three month student teaching experience takes place in winter term, January through March.

STUDENT TEACHING LOCATIONS

Following Teacher Standards and Practices Commission’s requirements, you will be placed in public schools.  These include schools in Deschutes, Crook and Jefferson counties, with the advantage of exposure to rural schools as well as those in our larger communities.  This also allows for exposure to a diversity of school districts, policies, administration, staff, cultures, ethnic and economic groups. 

PLACEMENT

The placements are all obtained by OSU-Cascades’ Coordinator of Educational Placement, meredith.mason@osucascades.edu, in collaboration with each school principal.

                                     Lapine Elementary School, Student Teaching Placement Site