Eastern Michigan requires each person in secondary education to spend 100 clock hours observing classrooms of diversity, and age relevancy prior to Student Teaching.

Early field experiences for candidates in Business Education are coordinated between the College of Education and the College of Technology. Students are first exposed to visiting schools in the pre-admission stage of their program. This first exposure takes place in BEDU 200 Principles of Marketing and Business Education. Each student is required to visit a cultural diverse school(s) for 15 hours and journalize events, intercommunication, classroom management, teaching strategies, students’ learning styles, and various other daily tasks that would be expected to take place in a typical classroom setting. These observations are documented and reported to the instructor of the class.

Each Business Education student is also required to take two College of Education Field Experience Courses. They are: FETE 201 and FETE 402. These courses are one credit hour and have field experience attached to them and are supervised through the College of Education. Click on following link or cut and paste to URL to review the requirements of the FETE classes for secondary education. http://www.emich.edu/coe/ted/fetebrochure.pdf  These field experiences are different and unique for each student, however, the required assignments are consistent with those necessary to ascertain students are exposed to environmental situations relative to the grade level of the students they will teach.