1) Students who have at least one year of teaching experience and who produce
written reports from their former principal or other appropriate authority
to the Office of Undergraduate Student Services certifying the quality of
their experience to be satisfactory may be excused, at the discretion of
the Office of Undergraduate Student Services the post-sessional block of
student teaching.
2) Students who have at least two years of teaching experience as required
of the Post-Secondary Education and Technology Education programs, and who
produce written reports from their former principal or other appropriate authority
to the Office of Undergraduate Student Services, certifying the quality of
their experience may be excused from one of Education 4700 or 3700*.
Students requesting a waiver of Education 3700* should have completed at
least one of these two years in a Technology laboratory. Students requesting
a waiver of Education 4700 must have completed two years of teaching in Post-Secondary
Education.
3) Education 401X may, in special circumstances and upon individual request,
be waived by the Office of Undergraduate Student Services in accordance with
the guidelines listed below. Students requesting waiver should apply in writing
and submit evidence of the following:
a) Permanent certification and tenure.
b) A minimum of five years teaching experience (or equivalent) in an environment
appropriate to the degree sought.
c) Recommendation from an individual in an administrative position i.e.
School Principal or Superintendent, attesting to the satisfactory quality
of the teaching experience.
Students whose requests for waiver of the internship are approved must substitute
in its place 15 appropriate credit hours in Education. These replacement credit
hours will be determined by the Office of Undergraduate Student Services on
an individual basis and must be approved by the Committee on Undergraduate
Studies.
4) Students who are excused from taking the student teaching course must
substitute in its place an appropriate course in Education to make up the
required total for the degree.
5) Applications for waiver of student teaching in whole or in part not covered
by these guidelines must be submitted to the Office of Undergraduate Student
Services.
* Inactive Course
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