Findings: Aligned student teaching
The results on this standard are very similar to the results for full-time student teaching. Only a handful of education schools allow teacher candidates to spend the majority or all of their student teaching experience overseas ( e.g., at a Department of Defense school), in an urban setting that is not supervised by a satellite campus or arranged entirely on their own.
Eastern Illinois University offer candidates the opportunity to student teach in numerous regions. It currently has 11 student teaching centers across the state where it has full-time student teaching coordinators living and assigned to work.
Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU) has designed a student teaching experience that is well aligned both with the design of their preparation program and with the instructional expectations teacher candidates will experience as licensed Illinois teachers. The institution also provides the opportunity to develop a global perspective: candidates may complete eight weeks of student teaching in a public school in Chicago and then travel to Korea to complete 20 more weeks of student teaching, with both experiences supervised by NEIU faculty or clinical supervisors.
How Illinois institutions fare on this standard
