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Teacher Certification
Practica
Teacher certification students must complete eight credits of practica: one 2–credit, 150–hour general practicum and one 6–credit, 15–week full–time student teaching assignment. Typically, a general practicum is done during students’ third or fourth semester, and student teaching occurs during the fifth and final semester.
Students do general practica in after–school programs, private and public schools, outdoor leadership programs, environmental learning centers, and conservation research–based agencies. They can be naturalists, exhibit designers, science teacher assistants, and wildlife researchers, to name just a few possibilities.
Student teaching is done during the last semester. Student teachers teach life, physical, and earth sciences in middle schools, and biology, AP environmental science, and ecology in high schools.
Student teaching can happen in public and private middle and high schools throughout the country. While most of our students find sites in New England, recent graduates have also student taught in California, Colorado, Washington, New York, Rhode Island, and Virginia. A small sampling of New England based student teaching sites follows.
New Hampshire
- Contoocook Valley High School, Peterborough, NH, High school biology
- Keene High School, Keene, NH, Biology, environmental science, earth science, and oceanography
- Keene Middle School, Keene, NH, 7th grade life science with emphasis on research design, and experimentation
- Kingswood Regional High School, Wolfeboro, NH, Honors biology and physical science
- Monadnock Regional High School, East Swanzey, NH, 8th grade physical science
- South Meadow Middle School, Peterborough, NH, General science and mathematics
- Westmoreland School, Westmoreland, NH, 6th, 7th, and 8th grade earth, space, biology, and physical science
- Soughegan High School, Amherst, NH, Biology and geology
Maine
- Belfast Area High School, Belfast, ME, Biology, environmental science
- Camden-Rockport High School, Camden, ME, Middle and high school research biology, laboratory biology, and earth science
- Isleboro Central School, Iselboro, ME, 7th-12th grade biology and marine sciences
- Lakes Region, Bridgton, ME, Biology
- Mary E. Taylor Middle School, Camden, ME, General science
Massachusetts
- R.J. Grey Junior High School, Action, MA, 8th grade general science
- Francis W. Parker Charter School, Ayer, MA, 10th-11th grade biology; 9th-10th grade chemistry
- Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, Cambridge, MA, Biology (basic and intensive)
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School, Dorchester, MA, 6th and 8th grade general science, hydrology, and astronomy (bilingual science teaching)
- Northfield Mount Hermon School, Northfield, MA, High school biology and environmental studies
- Shutesbury Elementary School, Shutesbury, MA, 6th grade life science
- Wayland Middle School, Wayland, MA, 7th grade life science
- Pentucket Regional Middle School, West Newbury, MA, 8th grade earth science
Vermont
- Brattleboro Union High School, Brattleboro, VT, Life systems
- F.H. Tuttle Middle School, Burlington, VT, 6th grade science/mathematics
- Guilford Central School, Guilford, VT, 7th-8th grade general, physical, earth, and life science
- Vergennes Union Junior High School, Vergennes, VT, Middle school science and mathematics
- Wilmington High School, Wilmington, VT, Biology and astronomy
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