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Student Teachers
Policy for Eligibility to be Paid for Clinical Experiences and Student Teaching
Effective December 1, 2002
Illinois State Law permits teacher candidates to be paid while completing clinical experiences and student teaching if certain conditions exist.
NEIU only permits students to complete clinical experiences and student teaching if admitted to the College of Education AND enrolled in a program designed to culminate with Illinois Teacher Certification. As with all other student teaching and clinical courses, students must fulfill all program requirements. Program requirements can be clarified with the program advisor.
Eligibility
Section 25.620, Part D, of 25 Illinois Administrative Code defines the rules for this and is cited below:
Student teaching must be done under the active supervision of a cooperating teacher who is certificated and qualified to teach in the area and who is directly engaged in teaching subject matter or conducting learning activities in the area of student teaching, unless the student teacher:
1) is serving on a transitional bilingual certificate*, a provisional vocational certificate, or a temporary provisional vocational certificate; or
2) is working in a school that is not legally required to employ certified teachers and either has two years teaching experience at that school or presents to the employer the evidence described in Section 25.11(g) of this Part documenting that he or she has two years teaching experience in one or more other schools exclusive of home schools; or
3) holds a substitute certificate and is not subject to the limitations of Section 21-9 of the School Code [105 ILCS 5/21-9] which are cited below.
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[Limitations as defined in 105 ILCS 5/21-9 (b)] A teacher holding a substitute teacher's certificate may teach only in the place of a certified teacher who is under contract with the employing board and may teach only when no appropriate fully certified teacher is available to teach in a substitute capacity. A teacher holding an early childhood certificate, an elementary certificate, a high school certificate, or a special certificate may also substitute teach in grades K-12 but only in the place of a certified teacher who is under contract with the employing board. A substitute teacher may teach only for a period not to exceed 90 paid school days or 450 paid school hours in any one school district in any one school term. However, a teacher holding an early childhood, elementary, high school, or special certificate may substitute teach for a period not to exceed 120 paid school days or 600 paid school hours in any one school district in any one school term. Where such teaching is partly on a daily and partly on an hourly basis, a school day shall be considered as 5 hours. The teaching limitations imposed by this subsection upon teachers holding substitute certificates shall not apply in any school district operating under Article 34. (Source: P.A. 92/184, eff. 7/27/01; 93?679, eff. 6/30/04.)
| * Transitional Bilingual Certificate: Illinois Type 29 Teaching Certificate
** Schools not legally required to employ certified teachers: IL parochial schools, IL private schools, IL charter schools
Application Process
At the time of application for clinicals or student teaching, OR no later than 2 months prior to the beginning of the semester in which the student is to be placed for clinicals or student teaching, the following must be submitted to this office.
Candidates seeking to be paid for student teaching must provide the Office of Field Expereinces and School Partnerhips with an ORIGINAL letter from candidate's principal written on school letterhead that includes the following:
1) Vertification that the candidate possess a valid and active Transitional Bilingual Certificate OR that the school is not legally required to employ certified teachers
2)Statement that the principal is willing to allow the candidate to complete student teaching at the school
3) Statement indicating understanding that the teacher candidate will be visited, evaluated, and supervised by a specified university supervisor
4) Statement indicating understanding that the teacher candidate will be released at such times to permit full attendance at all scheduled seminars for student teaching
If the teacher candidate is eligible to be paid for student teaching within the provisions of 25 Admninstrative Code, Section 25.620, Part D (2) cited above, the teacher candidate will also provide letters from the principals that, when combined, show evidence of successful (Satisfactory) full time teaching for at least two full school years in one or more schools where teachers are not required be certified, exclusive of home schools, AND the type of teaching assignment held by the teacher candidate (e.g., full time self contianed classroom, reources/pull out teacher, music teacher, art teacher, etc.).
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