Master in Teaching: Student Teaching
Creating Culturally Sustaining Learning Communities: Teaching with Joy and Justice!
The MiT Program aims to prepare aspiring K-12 teachers who center students, their families, and their communities as they design and implement meaningful learning experiences. Faculty recognize that the journey to becoming a teacher began before you joined the program and will continue after you graduate. The program design is framed by the Washington State Professional Education Standards Board Cultural Competency, Equity, and Diversity Standards and the InTASC Standards for Teacher Education. These standards lay the groundwork to prepare teachers who
understand themselves deeply as diverse cultural beings so they can better serve others across a range of human differences
include students, families, and communities as valued members of and contributors to the education community
create conditions that support partnerships and shared responsibility for learning and
create opportunities and remove barriers to ensure each and every student experiences the full benefit of public education (PESB, 2022)
If teachers are to be effective advocates for their students, they must deepen, and perhaps challenge, their current beliefs about teaching and learning. As teachers we must develop within ourselves the emotional and intellectual attributes needed to understand, support, and teach our future students, and to meet their diverse needs.
In the spring quarter, you will engage in the student teaching experience by becoming fully responsible for the planning, teaching, and assessment of your field classes. Weekly Field Seminars will support your work through drawing on peer feedback during Professional Learning Community meetings and completing a Culminating Professional Portfolio and your Professional Growth Plan.
Students who successfully complete the quarter will earn credit in: Student Teaching Field Experience 13 credits; Field Seminar 2 credits; Culminating Project 1 cr.
Registration
Academic Details
K-12 Teaching
Candidates may need to pay for gas or for public transportation to Field Experience sites.
Schedule
Please contact MiT faculty or Assistant Director for updated schedule.