Admission to Student Teaching

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The following list identifies the criteria for admission to student teaching:

• Admitted to the Educator Preparation Program.
  
• Maintain a minimum institutional overall Grade Point Average of 3.0 and a minimum institutional 3.0 Grade Point Average in the teaching field/academic concentration.
  
• Application should be made during registration for the spring semester of the junior year (not more than 50 semester hours remaining).
  
• Evidence of the personal qualities and characteristics desired in the "Code of Ethics and Standard Practices for Texas Educators."
  
• TExES practice tests (content and the pedagogy and professional responsibilities) are given in the Educator Preparation Seminars. Teacher candidates must pass both TExES state tests in order to be permitted to student teach.
  
  

  Teacher Candidates will take the content and pedagogy and professional responsibilities TExES seminars during their field-based experience. Teacher  candidates are not approved to take a state test until the teacher candidate has successfully passed the appropriate practice test.  Teacher candidates must pass the first state test before being allowed to register for a second (different) test.  Both state tests must be passed prior to the student teaching experience.

• Teacher Candidates must pass both TExES state test(s) to be permitted to student teach.

• Teacher Candidates must accumulate and document 200 hours of observation, including the two semesters of field-based course work.
  

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