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Clinical Placement Programs
1. How do I apply for student teaching?
See program sites for details on each of the different programs
2. When do I apply for student teaching?
An application for placement must be submitted to your advisor prior to the deadlines. For additional information, please visit our Website: http://www.nl.edu/academics/nce/oscr/deadlines.cfm
3. Do I have to interview for a teaching position?
Interviews are almost always conducted for Secondary Education placements, while other programs may also use interviews for placement.
4. What should I expect at an interview?
Knowledge of content area or interest in a grade level may be a main topic of discussion. Otherwise, the interview is an opportunity for school personnel to determine whether the placement is a good match for both the student and the school. Dress professionally; show enthusiasm and an eagerness to learn.
5. Where will I be placed during my student teaching? When will I be told?
Placement locations vary depending on availability. We do, however, consider location, program, level, and suitability when making the placement. Once we send your application to a partner school, the time allotted for a response varies depending on the school’s own policy for placement. If the clinical placement coordinator has not heard back from a school within a reasonable period of time, the school is contacted again until we have a decision. You will be notified when a positive decision is received. If we receive a negative decision and need further information from you regarding placement options, you will be contacted.
6. How will I be informed of my confirmed student teaching placement?
Once the clinical placement coordinator receives your official Confirmation Form from a school, you will receive a phone call, letter, or e-mail that includes the following: name, address and phone number of the school, start and end date and name of your cooperating teacher(s). Once all students have received their placements, you will receive literature from the individual department that includes: your placement, name and phone number of your NLU supervisor and time, date and location of all mandatory seminars.
7. In what counties in Illinois are student teachers from the National College of Education placed?
Region I: Central & North Cook
Region II: Central & South Cook
Region III: Southwest Cook & South Lake
Region IV: Will & DuPage
Region V: Kane & McHenry
Region VI: Kendall, DeKalb & LaSalle
Region VII: Will, Kankakee, & Grundy
* click on the Regional Map link at the top
8. What are my main duties as a student teacher?
As guests in the site school, we expect that you act professionally at all times and participate as fully as possible in the life of the school. By the end of the 10-12 week assignment, you should have had a minimum of 4 weeks with all the responsibilities of a full-time teacher. The Elementary Education program requirement is minimum of 10 consecutive days, not 4 weeks (please see the handbook.)
9. Do we have a program for student teaching in a foreign country?
If you are in an elementary, early childhood, or secondary education program, you may complete your student teaching requirement in another country through our partnership with Global Student Teaching (www.globalst.org). For Further information contact
Fred Chesek at (847) 947 –5564 fchesek@nl.edu
10. Will I be assigned more than one cooperating teacher?
Sometimes, one teacher's class load will not meet your student teaching needs. Therefore, multiple teachers may combine portions of their class load in order to provide one full-time teacher load. Also, some schools require that all stuent teachers be assigned multiple cooperating teachers.
11. Do I have to begin my student teaching on a certain date?
Yes. The partner school in conjunction with National-Louis University will set dates.
12. What are the prerequisites for student teaching and where do I send confirmation that I have completed all requirements for student teaching placement?
The following must be sent to the attention of Bonnie Daleiden in the Office for School-College Relations before you begin student teaching:
a. Completion of 100 observation hours of which 15 hours must be in special education classes.
b. An Illinois Criminal Background check.
Process for requesting a background check
1) Contact the Illinois State Police electronically http://www.isp.state.il.us/crimhistory/crimhistoryhome.cfmor by phone at 815-740-5160 and request an application (Form ISP6-404B) for a fingerprint-based record search of the llinois State Police Criminal history information files.
2) When you receive the form fill it out with your name as the requestor. The results must come from you to the University. Please note that if you indicate National-Louis University anywhere on the form, the original results may be sent to the University. Therefore please do not indicate NLU anywhere on the form so that the original results will be returned to your home address.
3) Mail the completed form with a check or money order for $20.00 made payable to the Illinois State Police to the address provided on the form. Always record the Transaction Control Number which is located on the right-hand corner of the form. This number is used in tracking the status of the request. In about 3-6 weeks you will receive one copy of your results (in a white envelope marked Confidential). A copy of the results must be on file with:
National-Louis University
Bonnie Daleiden, Office of School-College Relations
1000 Capitol Drive
Wheeling, IL 60090
bdaleiden@nl.edu
FAX 847.465.5399
Also send along your application for any type of clinical placement (Practicum and Student Teaching). Keep the original to show, upon request, to schools in which you are doing any type of observation. While not all schools are currently requesting to see the checks, the number of schools wanting verification that a person has passed the background check is growing. So keep yours with you if it is needed.
Additional Information:
Chicago police will not fingerprint students. Many of our student use the detective agency, Argus Services at 123 W. Madison, Suite 1650, Chicago, 312-922-6766. They take care of the background check with the police and do the fingerprints electronically.
c. A copy of your TB test results.
d. Satisfactory completion of all required coursework.
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