Clinical Teaching

Preparing for Clinical Application

When gathering documentation for clinical application, students must begin their preparation by doing the following:

• Visit with your SOE advisor every semester.
• Visit with your program coordinator every semester.
• Complete all your CORE courses and all other course work not listed under clinical courses.
• Maintain a minimum of a 2.75 GPA.
• EDUC 3320 must be successfully completed during the first semester as a TE student. This course is a pre-requisite to many of your other education courses, and will not be waived for continuation in the program.
• Begin taking representative exams while enrolled in their first semester as an accepted Teacher Education student. 
• Representative exams may be taken at any of the approved vendors listed below.  All representative exams for your certification must be successfully completed with 85% passing rate, prior to seeking approval for real exams. 
• NOTE: You have a limit of 15 days after you pass the representative exam to seek approval for real exam AND register to take exam.  Waiting will require you to retake the representative exam and seek approval again.
• All candidates scoring below a cumulative score of 85% will need to submit a study plan addressing areas of weakness identified on the certification exams. (multi-subject or single-subject) 
• Results of all exams, along with required study plans should be submitted to the Office of Clinical and Field Experience at SOEClinical.Field@untdallas.edu, UNLESS you are submitting an application for clinicals, which should then be submitted as attachments on TK20.
• All state certification exams must be successfully completed prior to being admitted to clinical semesters.

Clinical I: Methods

The Clinical I: Methods semester occurs when students enroll in Methods coursework. During this semester, students spend one day a week (1 full, 8 hour day or 2 half, four hour days) at an assigned placement school to complete field experience observations (the first five weeks of placement) and begin co-teaching models including: 1 teach, 1 observe; 1 teach-1 assist; and parallel teaching (during the final eight weeks of placement).  View the Clinical Teaching Handbook below for more information about field based expectations.

Students applying to Clinical I: Methods, must meet the following criteria:

• Prior admission to Teacher Education Program and current BS, Education major
• Minimum 2.75 Cumulative GPA for CORE, MAJOR, and OVERALL.
• Complete Checkpoint I (during EDUC 3320) and completion of course with a minimum grade of B (Incomplete nor IN PROGRESS course will not be accepted)
• Successfully completed all CORE coursework (all 1000 and 2000 level courses)
• Successfully complete all Teacher Education required courses prior to Clinical I enrollment, except those listed in your certification pathway as CLINICAL COURSES below).
  
  • Bilingual: Must have a minimum grade of B in EDBE 3470/3480.
  • LOTE: Completed a minimum of 24 upper division Spanish courses (SPAN 3000 or 4000) with a minimum if a 3.0 GPA
• Complete the Clinical I application in TK20 by the assigned deadline prior to the semester of entrance
• Demonstrate evidence of successful completion of ALL certification exams within your selected certification pathway (see below).

Results of all exam completed should be submitted to the Office of Clinical and Field Experience at SOEClinical.Field@untdallas.edu, unless you are submitting an application for clinicals, which should then be submitted as attachments on TK20.

Certification exams required by certification pathways include:

• • EC-6/ESL: EC-6, PPR, STR, ESL Supplemental
  • EC-6/SpEd: EC-6. PPR, STR, SpEd EC-12
  • EC-6 Bilingual: EC-6, PPR, STR, Bilingual Supplemental, BTLPT
  • 4-8 Math: 4-8 Math, PPR, ESL Supplemental
  • 4-8 SS: 4-8 SS, PPR, ESL Supplemental
  • 4-8 Science: 4-8 Science, PPR, ESL Supplemental
  • 4-8 ELAR: 4-8 ELAR, PPR, STR, ESL Supplemental
  • 7-12 Math: 7-12 Math, ESL Supplemental, PPR
  • 7-12 Life Science: 7-12 Life Science, PPR
  • EC-12 LOTE: Spanish: LOTE - Spanish, PPR

Clinical Teaching Forms and Resources

Code of Ethics Affirmation Form

FERPA Consent to Release Form

Clinical Teacher Handbook

Change of Major

All students pursuing teacher certification need to be enrolled in Education with initial teacher certification. If a student is seeking a change of major, the student must complete an exit interview by contacting the respective program coordinator to schedule an appointment.  Once the student changes majors, he will be longer be considered active in the School of Education and will not be eligible for teacher certification until he is readmitted to the program. Any test approvals granted will be automatically removed.  

Clinical Admissions Contact

Dr. Patsy Sosa-Sanchez at soeclinical.field@untdallas.edu