Teacher Licensure and Field Services
The Office of Field Services assists teacher candidates with placement for practicum and student teaching. Please contact our staff with questions.
Teacher
licensure | Field services | Staff | Field Experiences Policies (.pdf) | Professional
development requirements |
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Link to professional characteristics, or dispositions, of a WOU teacher candidate
NEW CHANGES in PRAXIS II testing requirements (Oct. 21, 2008):
We have learned today the required tests for science endorsements; Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Integrated Science now require only one test. Available testing dates for Physical Education and Social Studies tests have changed. For Physical Education tests, you can no longer take all three tests in one day; you must schedule two for one day and the third test for the next test session (two months later). For Social Studies test, 0085 is only given four times a year, and test 0081 is given at every test date. IMPORTANT - refer to this PRAXIS II website link for the most up to date information.
Thank you,
College of Education
Teacher licensure
- Undergraduate Initial License
- Graduate Initial License - Master of Arts in Teaching
- Continuing Teaching License (CTL)
- Transitional license
- Adding a WOU endorsement
- Adding
an authorization to a current
teaching license
Here are the authorization levels. They build upon one another, i.e., if you hold an Early Childhood license and want to add High School, you need to also add Elementary and Middle Level licenses.- Early Childhood
- Elementary
- Middle Level
- High School
- Special Education
- Deaf Education
- Health Education
- Physical Education
- Practicum Information
- Pre-admission Practicum: Students explore their interest in teaching during their freshman and sophomore years by enrolling in FS 199, 303, 358, and 399. Multiple practicums are offered each term for those wishing to gain experience in the public schools. For students who are applying to the College of Education there is an admission requirement of 30 hours in a public school. These practicums are specifically designed to help students gain that experience and are offered every term. Prior to registration the student must attend an orientation in order to set up the placement. Dates and times of the orientation vary and are posted in the Academic Advising and Learning Center, the College of Education, and other sites around campus.
- Undergraduate program
practicum:
- Term I: Teacher candidates rotate among district schools to learn about student and teacher roles within each of the four authorization levels, spending one day or 7 1/2 clock hours at each level.
- Term II: Teacher candidates spend two weeks at one site teaching small groups and working with students one on one. At this point they complete a mini-unit of three lessons. This is at the second authorization level.
- Term III: Teacher candidates return to the same classroom as Term II for a four-week block. During this time the first work sample is completed.
- Term IV: Student teachers are in their classrooms full-time (except for three seminar days on-campus) and have full teaching responsibility in their primary authorization area.
- Student teacher information
- Requirements:
- Be in their classrooms full-time for the whole term of student teaching
- Complete the required time of full responsibility
- Complete a second work sample of approximately 10 lessons
- Have two formal evaluations from the university supervisor
- Have two formal evaluations from the mentor teacher
- Participate in two
three-way conferences
- Forms
- Licensure: Licensure steps letter l WOU C2 form for TSPC
- Field experience
forms: Evaluation of
Lesson/Teaching form l Formative
Evaluation Term IV form l Student
Teaching Summary Report (Note: These forms are also
in the Field Experience Workbook.)
- OEA
resource for first year
teachers - Find it at Resources, OEA publications
- Requirements:
- Mentoring
- Oregon University System policies
Oregon professional development requirements
- Oregon Teacher Standards and Practices Commission (TSPC)
- Continuing Professional Development for Licensure Renewal (TSPC document)
- WOU Division of Extended Programs
Sue Thompson, Director
Field Services Office
503-838-8828 . thompss@wou.edu
Susan Griffin, Teacher Education Graduate Program Development Coordinator
Division of Teacher Education
503-838-8704 . griffins@wou.edu
Lynne Lindsay, Administrative Program Specialist
Master of Arts in Teaching Program
503-838-8272 . lindsayl@wou.edu
Karen Johnson, Office Specialist
Field Services Office
503-838-8235 . johnsonk@wou.edu