Academics at MBC
Student Teaching
Student teaching is the capstone experience of the teacher education program at Mary Baldwin College. This experience allows pre-service teachers to synthesize and apply their accumulated knowledge, skills, and experiences, moving them from theory into practice under the supervision of highly qualified and experienced teachers.
The primary goal of student teaching is to provide the opportunity for student teachers to acquire and demonstrate instructional competence essential for success as beginning professional educators. The student teaching experience has been carefully designed to be as realistic and as intensive as actual teaching with every effort being made on the part of all involved to make the experience a positive one.
The student teacher works directly with students in a classroom on a full-time basis under the direction of a classroom teacher and college supervisor for one full semester.
