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1. What are the pre-student teaching requirements?
2. Is a TB test required to student teach? Where should I go for this?
3. What is a “diverse” setting?
4. What’s the Comer school project?
5. How can someone become involved in the Comer school project?
6. Are student teaching applications available on-line?
7. What’s the Urban Teacher program?
8. What are the requirements for student teaching?
9. Can I take courses while I am student teaching?

1. What are the pre-student teaching requirements?

Elementary and Secondary Education students must complete 100 hours of pre-student teaching. See http://catalog.emich.edu/.

Follow this if you started college at EMU or elsewhere prior to Fall 1998:

1. Complete 50 hours in a classroom:
   1) 50 hours must be in the classroom under a certified classroom teacher with age appropriate students,
   2) Must have at least 2 different experiences, one of which is in a multicultural or urban classroom, and
   3) Student may complete all 100 hours of pre-student teaching in a classroom. (20 hours of substitute teaching may be counted.)
2. Outside the classroom pre-student teaching: Other 50 hours of work with students may be in a teaching/learning setting with age-appropriate students, including tutoring, coaching, structured religious instruction, instruction within scouting, after school activities, or recreational programs.
3. Purchase Pre-student Teaching Course pack at Ned’s:
   1) Complete activities 1-20 and any other activities appropriate to your situation, and
   2) Log hours working with students outside of the classroom in the back of the course pack.
4. Submit the completed Pre-student Teaching Course pack to 206 Porter before student teaching.

Follow this program if you started college at EMU or elsewhere Fall 1998 to date:

1. Complete 60 hours through FETE field experiences:
   1) Students must complete three 1 cr. hour field experiences, and
   2) Must have at least 2 different experiences, one of which is in a multicultural or urban classroom.
2. Additional pre-student teaching requirement:
   1) 40 hours of additional pre-student teaching are required. These may be in a classroom or in a teaching/learning setting with age appropriate students, including tutoring, coaching, structured religious instruction, instruction within scouting, after school activities, or recreational programs, and
   2) Students may count 40 hours of substitute teaching toward additional pre-student teaching.
3. Purchase course packs that go along with FETE courses the semester you take them:
   1) Complete course assignments that are in the FETE course pack and that coincide with the co-req. professional course/s. Record FETE hours on Green card with instructor’s signature and
   2) Log the additional 40 hours of pre-student teaching on Green Cards or submit valid proof of work for approval by Office Academic Services, 206 Porter.
4. Submit completed assignments to FETE supervisor and/or faculty teaching the co-req. course.
5. Submit completed Green Card to the Office of Academic Advising, 206 Porter.

2. Is a TB test required to student teach? Where should I go for this?

TB tests are required for student teaching. You can get one from your family physician, or at EMU’s Snow Health Center.

3. What is a “diverse” setting?

For the purpose of pre-student teaching, a diverse setting is one in which at least 30% of the students attending are linguistically, ethnically, culturally, or socio-economically diverse. Title I schools are diverse.

4. What’s the Comer school project?

Dr. James P. Comer and his colleagues at Yale University School of Medicine’s Child Study Center developed the Comer School Project. The Comer process is called the School Development Program (SDP) which is a comprehensive education reform program grounded in the principles of child and youth development. The SDP provides the organizational, management, and communication framework for mobilizing the support of teachers, parents, and other caring adults to foster students’ personal, moral, and academic development and achievement. The program was first introduced in two low-achieving schools in 1968; the SDP is now at work in more than 700 schools in 21 states, the District of Columbia, Trinidad and Tobago, and South Africa. EMU is in partnership with the 38 Comer (SDP) schools in Detroit, Michigan.

5. How can someone become involved in the Comer school project?

Most of our pre-student teachers and FETE students become involved through education classes. Anyone can visit the Comer office in 104 Porter and ask for more information.

6. Are student teaching applications available on-line?

Yes. Go to: http://www.emich.edu/coe/oas/apps.html.

7. What’s the Urban Teacher program?

The Urban Teacher program is available to students who already hold teaching positions in the Detroit or Flint Public Schools but need to complete certification requirements.

8. What are the requirements for student teaching?

Visit: http://www.emich.edu/coe/oas/stud.html.

9. Can I take courses while I am student teaching?

Yes, but there are certain courses you MUST have completed before you can student teach. These courses include: EDPS 322 and 340 (and 325 for Special Education ONLY), CURR 304 or 305, SOFD 328, RDNG 300, 310 and MATH 381 (Elementary students), RDNG 311 and content methods course in major (Secondary students), all courses in major area for secondary students, and EDTC 300 or EDMT 330 or equivalent (SPGN 481 for Special Education students).

10. I would like to student teach out of state - is that possible?

Students can student teach in others states. Please contact the Office of Academic Services in 206 Porter, or call 734.487.1416, for more information.