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Are you a current agricultural education student? As a teacher candidate, you need to be admitted to Professional Standing in Agricultural Education before you can enroll in upper level education courses. Before you near your last semester at UWRF, you'll also need to apply for student teaching. Explore below to find important dates, deadlines, portfolio details, licensing resources and more! Have questions? We're here to help! Reach out to your adviser or email ag.ed@uwrf.edu.
The agricultural education major is a collaborative partnership between CAFES and the Educator Preparation Program in the School of Education within the College of Education, Business and Allied Health.
2024-25 Application Deadlines
- Sept. 13, 2024: Spring 2025 student teaching application due
- Oct. 11, 2024: Admission to Professional Standing in Agricultural Education applications for spring 2025 registration due (all materials must be received and initial interview completed)
- Feb. 7, 2025: Fall 2025 student teaching application due
- Feb. 21, 2025: Admission to Professional Standing in Agricultural Education applications for fall 2025 registration due
Admission to Professional Standing in Agricultural Education
Learn more about the process for admission to Professional Standing at students.uwrf.edu/aged/professional-standing-admission.
A teacher learning portfolio is required prior to student teaching. Click the button to learn more.
2,000 hours of ag-related occupational experience must be completed prior to student teaching.
Details:
- Record all your information.
- Maintain copies of any documents verifying your hours (paystubs, FFA award applications, etc.)
Guidelines for Occupational Hours:
- Hours must cover at least two of the Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources Career Cluster Pathways
- Agricultural Communications and Leadership Development count as pathway #8
- At least 600 hours must be in the second pathway
- Up to 600 hours can be counted from ages 15-18
- The first 200 hours of an approved internship experience taken for credit can be multiplied by three, with any additional internship hours added to that number
- For example, an internship experience of 335 hours would count as 735 occupational hours: 200x3 + (335-200) = 600 +135 = 735. An 185 hour internship would count as 555 occupational hours (185x3).
- Experience from over 10 years prior to applying to student teach cannot be used.
This policy meets the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction requirement for teachers of agricultural education to have the equivalent of a VOCATIONAL EDUCATION supplemental license (PI 34.33(8)).
Student/Intern Teaching Process
Learn more about the student/intern teaching application process and important dates at students.uwrf.edu/aged/student-teaching.
- Schedule
- Contact information, school calendar and course schedule for the placement site. Needs to be submitted prior to the start of the student or intern teaching placement.
- Checklist of Activities
- Checklist for tracking activities completed during the placement. Must be submitted prior to the final seminar.
- Demonstration Plan Template
- Format for developing an instructional demonstration.
- Lesson Plan Template
- Format for developing instructional lesson plans.
- Pre-Observation Worksheet
- This worksheet is to be completed prior to the arrival of your university supervisor. The form will include information about the lesson to be observed.
- Journal Report
- Form used to maintain a weekly journal of your teaching activities. Download and save this form! Submit your weekly reports via email to your university supervisor and to Canvas for on-campus review.
Click the button to learn more about teacher licensing.
