Student Teaching

Student teacher chatting with student.

Student teaching provides you an opportunity to put into practice the knowledge and skills you developed in the preparation program. Student teaching at NIU involves an on-site experience in a partner school and opportunities for formal and informal candidate reflection on their teaching experience. The on-site teaching portion of this experience can range from 10 to 16 weeks, depending on the program.

Requirements

Student teaching candidates may request to be placed at specific schools and with specific cooperating teachers; however, final placement decisions are made by the program coordinators and the partner schools. These decisions take into consideration the qualifications of the teaching candidate, the availability of qualified cooperating teachers in the school and the number of student teachers and clinical students currently or previously placed in a school and/or department. Every effort is made to ensure the candidate has a highly successful student teaching experience.


Contact Us

Office of Educator Licensure and Preparation
Williston Hall 320
815-753-0846
TeacherCertification@niu.edu