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Tel. 617-287-7600
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Student Teaching/Practicum Application can be downloaded here.
Practicum Requirements
Massachusetts initial licensure requires a full semester of classroom practicum experience. The practicum places you into the classroom of a cooperating practitioner who provides day-to-day supervision and mentoring. You are expected to slowly take on more and more responsibility until – usually after a few weeks – you are fully responsible for the teaching in the classroom. You also have a supervisor from the university who is expected to visit the school and observe you teaching periodically throughout the semester. Your supervisor will meet with you after the observations for consultation and will also meet with your cooperating teacher. Three meetings in which you, the cooperating practitioner, and your university supervisor confer are required by the state; in this program, university supervisors make a minimum of five observations of your teaching, run a weekly student teaching seminar, and provide you with written responses to your teaching. At the conclusion of the student teaching assignment, the cooperating practitioner and the university supervisor confer about your assessment, and fill out and sign the Practicum Report Form that is submitted with other material for licensure. The decision of the final grade will be made by the university supervisor.
Special Education
Initial Licensure requires a full semester of classroom practicum experiences working with students on Individualized Education Plans (IEPs). For the Teacher of Students with Moderate Disabilities (Prek-8) initial licensure, 300 hours in an inclusive general education setting or 75 hours in an inclusive general education setting and 225 hours in a separate or substantially separate setting for students with moderate disabilities is required.
For the Teacher of Students with Moderate Disabilities (5-12) initial licensure, 150 hours in an inclusive general education classroom or 75 hours in an inclusive general education classroom and 75 hours in a separate or substantially separate setting for students with moderate disabilities is required.