(for Online Programs – DLiTE, FasTrack, and SPED – Please See Below)<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n Cooperating teachers are essential partners in preparing future educators. By hosting a teacher candidate during a clinical experience, you mentor emerging professionals, model effective teaching practices, and support candidates as they grow in real classroom settings.<\/span><\/p>\n Clinical experiences may include:<\/span><\/p>\n Field Experience Cooperating Teacher To host a teacher candidate for field experience, you must:<\/span><\/p>\n Student Teaching or Practicum Cooperating Teacher To host a teacher candidate for student teaching or practicum, you must:<\/span><\/p>\n Free, online (45-minute) training in Coaching Strategies for Adult Learners is available through (training only needs to be completed once and may also qualify for CEUs):<\/p>\n Interested in serving as a Cooperating Teacher?<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n Contact <\/span>teaching.clinicals@bemidjistate.edu<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n PELSB Rule References: <\/span><\/b>Minnesota Administrative Rule 8705.10<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n Online Program Mentors and Cooperating Teachers<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n Teacher candidates enrolled in online licensure programs (DLiTE, MAT-FasTrack, and SPED) are supported through a Mentor model during their clinical experiences. <\/span><\/p>\n For more information about serving as a Mentor and\/or Cooperating Teacher in an online program, please review the program-specific guidance below:<\/span><\/p>\n Become a Cooperating Teacher for Campus-Conventional Programs (for Online Programs – DLiTE, FasTrack, and SPED – Please See Below) Cooperating teachers are essential partners in preparing future educators. By hosting a teacher candidate during a clinical experience, you mentor emerging professionals, model effective teaching practices, and support candidates as they grow in real classroom settings. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"parent":86,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2015","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/offices\/teacher-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/offices\/teacher-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/offices\/teacher-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/offices\/teacher-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/offices\/teacher-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2015"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/offices\/teacher-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2026,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/offices\/teacher-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2015\/revisions\/2026"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/offices\/teacher-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/offices\/teacher-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\n<\/span><\/b>(Pre-student teaching)<\/p>\n\n
\n<\/span><\/b>(Practicum is typically an 80-hour experience for additional licensure candidates)<\/span><\/p>\n\n
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