Clinical Experiences 

List of Districts & Organizations Approved for Clinical Experiences

Clinical experiences are the pre-student teaching opportunities to observe, tutor, and assist small group and whole class instruction in schools and other agencies. A minimum of 100 clinical hours are earned before student teaching and at least 50 of these hours must be completed in diverse settings.

Pre-student teaching clinical experiences are completed in coursework prior to student teaching and can begin as early as freshman year.  Course expectations for clinicals are determined by the department based on the enrolled course.  Questions about the clinicals can be directed to the clinical professor.

Clinical Experiences Checklist: Before starting a clinical experience

1. Complete National Criminal Background (NCBC) before registering for clinical course. https://education.illinoisstate.edu/teacher/gateways/background.php
2. Confirm clinical experience expectations with your professor based on course guidelines.  Your professor will approve your final hours and sets expectations for your clinical experience based on departmental/course/University expectations.  
3. Check with your course instructor for information about your site. See clinical options below:
   • Secondary & K-12
   • SED: Deaf & Hard of Hearing | Learning & Behavior | Low Vision & Blindness
   • TCH: Early Childhood | Elementary | Elementary Bilingual/Bicultural | Middle Level
4. Complete district/agency requirements for your assigned site.
   • District 87 - No self-placement allowed.
   • Unit 5 - No self-placement allowed.
   • Metcalf & UHigh - No self-placement allowed.
   • Other school placement
   • Chicago Public Schools
   • Bus trips
   • Community Center or Non-School Agency
5. Review the:

• • Site Code of Conduct
  • Rights and Responsibilities
  • ISU Student Code of Conduct
  • Illinois Educator Code of Ethics

5. Make sure to have appropriate Insurance Coverage. 
6. Transportation to all clinical experience sites is the responsibility of the teacher candidate.

Resources: After completing a clinical experience

When entering your hours, you will start directly on the class search page. On this page you can enter your search criteria to find a specific class or simply click search to view all classes your have been enrolled in while at ISU.  When you click on your documentation class, you will be taken to the experience document page for entry of your information.  Please review the course information at the top to confirm section and professor.

• 1. Complete your clinical experience.
     • While completing your clinical experience, document the dates, hours, name of teacher(s) and school where you are completing your experience.
  2. Submit the online clinical experience document in the Teacher Education section of your Student Center at My.IllinoisState.edu.
  • Your online clinical experience should be submitted by the end of the semester in which they were completed to allow your professor to approve the hours.  Only approved hours will be counted towards your accumulative total.
  • School and Organization Clinical Experience Guide - Gives details on diversity, community organizations and teachers.  It also includes a list of commonly used schools and organizations with the name, ID number and city to assist with documentation.  The list is broken down into sections by schools in the Bloomington-Normal area, surrounding areas (typically within 75 miles), Chicago public schools and study abroad.
  • School-Organization Code List for Pre-Student Teaching Documentation - Full Illinois code list of schools/organizations searchable by Illinois city.
  • If your school or cooperating teacher is not in the system, please e-mail ClinicalQuestions@IllinoisState.edu and include the following: cooperating teacher name, grade level, school, district and town.
  3. Instructional resources for document completion:
     • Instructional video
     • Use this flowchart to ensure you enter your hours correctly.
     • For assistance with documenting your hours, please use this handout.
  4. Viewing your hours:
     • Use this handout for directions to the "View my clinical hours" page.  You can see all documented clinical hours and their current status.  It also gives you totals for approved clinical and diverse hours.
     • For navigation help see How to access Teacher Education Pages in My.IllinoisState.edu.
  5. Problems:  If you encounter documentation issues (i.e. school or cooperating teacher is missing, etc.), please e-mail ClinicalQuestions@IllinoisState.edu.  For other questions about signing up to attend a site, please refer to course information, wiki pages, and/or course instructors.
     
     
  6. Common documentation sites:

Annenberg Videos

• • • • • Organization  Name and ID: Annenberg Videos - 1001066392
        • Cooperating Teacher Name and ID: Teacher Video - 1000880981

ATLAS Online Videos

• • • • Organization Name and ID: ATLAS Online Videos - 1001066323
      • Cooperating Teacher Name and ID: Teacher Video - 1000880981

Other General Video Experiences

• • • • • Organization Name and ID: Video Experiences - 5000001
        • Cooperating Teacher Name and ID: Teacher Video - 1000880981 

Tutoring Experiences (e-learning or other tutoring)

• • • • Organization Name and ID: Community Observations - 5003740
      • Cooperating Teacher Name and ID: Community Tutoring - 1001072698

General Community Observations

• • • • Organization Name and ID: Community Observations - 5003740
      • Cooperating Teacher Name and ID: Observations Community - 1000902197

School/District Experiences

• • • • • Organization Name and ID: Search options by keyword and town
        • Cooperating Teacher Name and ID: Past CT's used by ISU students will be linked to the organization chosen