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Student Teaching and Athletic or Extracurricular Involvement

Student Teaching and Athletic or Extracurricular Involvement

Oct 06, 2025

The student teaching semester includes two student teaching placements and the course ED 411 Reflective Teaching Seminar. Intercollegiate athletic, music, and/or theater production involvement is strongly discouraged. Student Teaching takes precedence over all other activities for the semester and is to be seen as a full-time, full load program. In the event that a student seeks to participate in extracurricular events during student teaching, written permission must be granted from the Teacher Education Admissions Committee.  TEAC reserves the right to deny any extracurricular involvement requests.

Students who wish to participate in extracurricular events during their professional semester shall notify the Director of Clinical Partnerships at their meeting for student teaching.

In advance of the professional semester, the Director of Clinical Partnerships, the coach/director, producer, and the student, together in conference, will plan the specific absences and departure times, giving attention to the following guidelines.

The involvement shall not necessitate:

  • More than 5 early release times during the total semester.  Attendance at seminars and student teaching is required
  • Absences on back to back days during the regular season (this may become necessary during post season play)
  • More than one full day (6 hours) of time missed during any one week

A contract spelling out the conditions of participation in an extracurricular activity shall be signed by the coach/director/producer, student teacher, and the Director of Clinical Partnerships.

If during Student Teaching there is indication that extracurricular activities are hindering student performance and jeopardizing student success in completing the program, the Director of Clinical Partnerships in conjunction with the Teacher Education Admissions Committee (TEAC) has the right to ask the student to terminate participation in either the extracurricular activity and/or student teaching for the duration of the semester.