The St. Cloud State Education Building.
The St. Cloud State University School of Education has earned a $100,000 grant to develop a year-long student teaching pilot program.
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The Minnesota legislature authorized Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) to award the competitive grant to two system universities to develop a year-long student teaching experience and report the results of the effort to the legislature to develop a potential MnSCU student teaching model.
St. Cloud State will use its own nationally-recognized co-teaching model that faculty have developed for its pilot project.
The program will involve at least 20 students in the special education or family studies programs who will begin their student teaching in spring 2016 and finish their year-long program in fall semester 2016.
MnSCU chose St. Cloud State and Metro State to develop and deliver projects. Each university is working with P-12 partner districts to place their student teachers for the year-long project. Representatives from the universities will present on the projects to MnSCU and the legislature in the spring of 2017.
This is important work and this model will be of great value to students, said Rep. Dean Urdahl, R-Grove City, chief author on the legislation.
“I believe it will enhance St. Cloud State’s longtime commitment to training high-quality educators,” he said.
