Rationale: Aligned student teaching
Unless preparation programs can establish true satellite campuses to closely supervise Illinois student teaching arrangements, placements in urban or otherwise novel locales should be supplementary to a standard student teaching arrangement. Otherwise, outsourcing the arrangements for student teaching makes it impossible to ensure the selection of the best cooperating teacher and adequate supervision of the student teacher. Foreign student teaching experiences, whether supervised by a satellite campus or outsourced, must also be supplementary to a standard student teaching experience since those experiences cannot expose the student teacher to an exemplary teacher working in the same classroom environment that the teacher candidate will experience, nor can they provide training on Illinois instructional frameworks.
