Clinical Practice Office

The Clinical Practice Program provides student teaching interns with opportunities to move beyond being students of organized knowledge to becoming teachers who put their acquired knowledge into practice in the classroom.

The College of Education partners with public school teachers and administrators to provide guided and gradual induction into classroom teaching working collaboratively with partner schools to provide field-based programs for both undergraduate and post-baccalaureate students seeking initial certification in elementary and secondary levels.

Early Field Experience & Clinical Teaching

Clinical Practice Application (for Spring 2025 placements)

Application period: August 26, 2024 - September 15, 2024

Art Education placement application (undergraduate and post bacc): Click here to access application

Music Education and Teach North Texas application for clinical teaching: Click here to access application

Block B and Early Field Experiences (undergraduate and post bacc)

(For those seeking EC-6 Core Subjects + 4-8 Social Studies/English Language Arts and Reading, IMPACT, Secondary, + All level

**This is a two-step process:

Fill out the Clinical practice application
Complete the Qualification Agreement

After you are assigned to a district, you will be required to complete a district based background check.

District Background Check

Handbooks & Resources

Clinical Practice Office Appeal Procedures (Closed for Fall 2024)

If you need to submit an appeal to the Director of Clinical Practice, you can do so by submitting this form.

You can submit an appeal for the following reasons:

If you missed a Field Experience Placement Application deadline.
If you need to appeal the TExES testing policy.
If you would like to request a different placement.

Frequently Asked Questions

During your clinical teaching semester you will report to your assigned public school with your assigned cooperating teacher as if you were the teacher of that classroom. Clinical teaching courses do not meet on the UNT campus. If you are an undergraduate elementary student participating in a Professional Development School, then you will be required to attend seminars scheduled by your PDS Coordinator.

Although clinical teaching is six credit hours you should consider yourself a full-time student because you are expected to be on your assigned campus all day five days a week. While on a field campus in a school district you are required to keep the contract hours for all employed teachers on that campus. You may need to stay after school to prepare lessons you will be teaching, attend meetings or attend school sponsored functions.

EDSP 4350 and EDEE 4890 are courses that may be on your certification plan and are required to be taken with PDS 2 (Clinical Teaching). You cannot take courses during the school day. If you want to take an additional course during clinical teaching or Professional Development School (PDS) 1, you must appeal using the appropriate appeal form found on the Student Advising Website.

As a student teacher, you should report to your campus when your cooperating teacher is required to report to their campus and you may not leave until your mentor teacher's teaching day is complete. It is suggested that student teacher's should mirror their mentor teacher's arrival and departure time.

Clinical teachers follow the holiday schedule that the school district follows. Your beginning day and ending day of clinical teaching is set forth by the University.

Yes, you are required to attend all school district staff development days