What is the placement process?
First of all, we process your application and enter it into our internship database for the semester for which you have applied. While we are accepting and processing your applications, we are also asking for volunteer teachers to supervise interns. After all volunteer information has been returned by the schools, we match students with teachers. For elementary and unified early childhood students, we consider special requests first and then work on placing students as closely as possible to their grade requests. In all other programs, the internship coordinator usually reviews the list of teacher volunteers and makes recommendations on placements to the departmental coordinator, who in turn makes placement request decisions. We then send requests out to the schools. When the request forms are returned, signed by the principals, we then begin sending notification letters to students. As directed in the letter and accompanying information, you should plan to make contact with your coope
Student teachers at Indiana University—Purdue University Fort Wayne are placed in public and commissioned private and parochial schools in the northeastern Indiana area. The school must maintain the appropriate type of state commission. Student teachers, through discussion with the Director of Field Services, are given input as to where they desire to be placed. Assignment requests and placements are sought in the best interest of each student teacher. The decision to place a student teacher in a given situation is a cooperative agreement in which the school administrator, cooperating teacher, and the Director of Field Services give their consent. Placements are always completed as a formal request to the school system involved. Eventual placements, of course, are subject to final approval of the Director of Field Services and the appropriate administrator of the school requested by the university. Changes in confirmed placements are extremely rare and are affected only through the pla
