Team
Assignments, Field Placement, & Intern Preferences:
Team
Assignments
Upon admission to Teacher Education, students are assigned
to a particular TE Team. Special Education - Learning
Disabilities majors will be assigned to the Lansing area
team since
they are required to intern in the Lansing Area. Deaf
Education majors will be assigned to either the Lansing
area team, which includes Grand Rapids and Jackson, or the
Detroit area team, which includes Pontiac and Flint.
Field Placement
Students enrolled in TE 301 through TE 402 are placed for
field work in the greater Lansing area in order to minimize
travel time. For the internship year, field placements
are made in the Lansing area and in selected sites that are
distributed more broadly. A list of sites available for
internship placement is provided with a survey which students
complete prior to internship placement.
The first consideration in
making field placements and the internship is to prepare you
for certification in Michigan. To do that, we place you
in situations that match the teaching certificate you intend
to earn, and which prepare you to teach diverse students in
diverse settings. We also seek to place you in settings
which best fulfill your educational needs as we see them.
Our second consideration is to place you in schools with which
we have developed good working relationships and which support
a productive combination of course work and field work.
Our third field placement consideration is your preference of
a location for the internship year. We attempt to honor
your preference, provided that we can satisfy the first two
considerations and have enough placements in a given location
for all who want internships there. Under no condition
are students allowed to negotiate their own placements.
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