Student Teaching Application

OVERVIEW

Candidates pursuing initial teacher certification in Kentucky are required by state regulation to student teach in a P-12 classroom. Educator Preparation Providers (EPP), including the UofL College of Education and Human Development (CEHD), are required to establish and follow a formal application procedure for each teacher candidate’s admission to student teaching. All CEHD student teaching placements are arranged through the Office of Educator Development and Clinical Practice (OEDCP). University students should not contact the district, school or other education personnel for student teaching placements.


APPLICATION PROCESS

Applying to student teach is a multi-step process that ensures UofL teacher candidates meet state, school district and university requirements prior to entering the P-12 classroom as a student teacher. Upon notification, and at the appropriate time, teacher candidates on track to student teach in the next scheduled fall or spring semester submit requirements for student teaching. These requirements are posted in Foliotek.

In submitting documentation, teacher candidates must adhere to the Professional Code of Ethics for Kentucky School Personnel and "shall not knowingly falsify or misrepresent records of facts relating to the educator's own qualifications." Any candidate found to have falsified information or forged required signatures will not be eligible to student teach and will be cited for academic dishonesty in compliance with university policy.

All electronic documents submitted in Foliotek must be readable. Digital images that are out-of-focus, distorted, taken from a distance or have illegible signatures will be returned to the candidate for resubmission, which may delay the student teaching start date. Unless specifically requested by OEDCP staff, candidates should not send materials via email. The OEDCP asks teacher candidates to use Camscanner or a similar free application to combine multiple digital files into one or two scrollable PDF files for submission.


 

ACCESSING FOLIOTEK

Teacher candidates access the Student Teaching Application in Foliotek by first logging in to Blackboard and selecting a course in which they are currently enrolled. Course instructors create a single sign-on link in each course hosted in Blackboard which serves as a portal to Foliotek.

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