PROGRAMS
The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater provides student teaching experiences in selected schools and agencies in southeastern Wisconsin with quality educational experiences.
The student teacher usually spends at least one complete semester working in a school and is assigned to teach with one or more cooperating teachers and under the guidance and direction of a university supervisor. The student teaching responsibility is viewed broadly to include involvement in many in-school and out-of-school activities.
Formerly, teacher licenses in Wisconsin were categorized according to grade level. With the enactment of PI 34, teacher licenses are now categorized in terms of developmental level and age range. The following table shows the correspondence between the new developmental level and age range language, and the earlier language of grades.
Abbreviation |
Development level |
Age range |
Grades |
EC |
Early Childhood |
Birth-8 years old |
Nursery-Grade 3 |
EC-MC |
Early Childhood through Middle Childhood |
Birth-11 years old |
Pre-K-Grade 6 |
MC-EA |
Middle Childhood through Early Adolescence |
Ages 6-12/13 years old |
Grades 1-8 |
EA-A |
Early Adolescence through Adolescence |
Ages 10-21 years old |
Grades 6-12 |
EC-A |
Early Childhood through Adolescence |
All ages in public schools |
Grades K-12 |