Application Handbook Section 4

Creating the Paper Application for Student Teaching

Your paper application will be mailed to any combination of superintendents, principals, department chairs, and prospective supervising teachers. This document provides your "first impression" to these individuals, and they are likely to form an idea of your potential as a teacher and your professionalism by what they find.

It is in your best interest to prepare a neat and well-organized application. It should clearly present your experiences and accomplishments as a student as well as your ideas about teaching. Errors in grammar, spelling, and/or punctuation seriously detract from what may otherwise be a strong application; indeed, some applications have been rejected and returned to our office with mistakes circled by those individuals who have reviewed them. Proofread your application very carefully.

Directions for Filling out a Student Teaching Application:

1. Click here.
2. A file download box will appear. Select SAVE and then choose where you would like to save it (ie: desktop, disk, cfs. etc.)
3. Fill out the application
4. Every student will print and turn-in a minimum of 4 copies of the paper application.

Some students will print additional copies under the following circumstances

• 3 additional copies for each additional placement (ie: endorsements, early childhood & TAL)

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