Faculty

Clinical Experiences Form 

All clinical teacher candidates must submit a clinical experiences form via Campus Solutions to document their hours. Once submitted, forms must be approved by the instructor of record to be formally counted toward a teacher candidate's clinical experiences requirements.

For faculty assistance in approving the pre-clinical observation form, please use the training video. If you have questions, please e-mail clinicalquestions@illinoisstate.edu.

Tips:

• All hours should be approved or rejected by the instructor of record.
• If a teacher candidate entered the wrong information, please reject the form. The form will automatically be returned to the teacher candidate for editing.
• Teacher candidates should e-mail clinicalquestions@illinoisstate.edu when issues occur.
• All clinical experiences forms should be approved by the instructor of record before the start of the next semester.

For further help, please refer to this handout.

For student resources, please review the student clinical experience page:  https://education.illinoisstate.edu/teacher/clinical/

Disposition Concerns Assessments

1. Important Documents:
   • Disposition Concerns Assessment form
   • Checklist and Tips for writing disposition concerns assessment
   • Disposition Concerns Flow Chart
2. Disposition Concerns are submitted when behaviors or actions of an Illinois State University teacher candidate do not meet the expectations of professionalism listed under "Disposition Indicators".
3. Disposition Concerns can be written by any individual associated with the teacher candidate. (Example: university secretary, school district staff, professor, technology support staff, PK-12 teacher, etc.)
4. The person writing the disposition must indicate if the disposition is resolvable or unresolvable.  If it is resolvable, the end date as to when it must be resolved must be indicate on the form.  The person writing the disposition concern must contact the Associate Director of the Cecilia J. Lauby Teacher Education Center, to inform him that the disposition concern has been resolved.  If not, the disposition concern remains in place.
5. Disposition Concerns may be resolved by the major department.
6. Unresolved Disposition Concerns are indicated on the teacher candidate gateways.
7. Three unresolved Disposition Concerns result in the stoppage of progress toward the degree.

   • In some circumstances, a single Disposition Concern may trigger a stop in a teacher candidate’s progress toward program completion without the need to reach the typically three unresolved disposition level. Such action is considered and implemented only in unusual circumstances. What qualifies a Disposition Concern as “severe” is determined by the Cecilia J. Lauby Teacher Education Center, program, or department on a case-by-case basis. There may be some overlap of concerns considered “severe” with the type of behavior that could stop a student from receiving a teacher license and/or working in a school setting. Because these cases are, by nature, unusual, an exhaustive list of behaviors that qualify as raising “serious concern” cannot be created. As with any disposition concerns issue, when progress towards the degree has been stopped, the student may appeal the decision to the Teacher Education Review Board (TERB). Instructions and “Guidelines for Submitting Student Appeals Procedures” may be found at https://education.illinoisstate.edu/teacher/clinical/appeals.php The TERB decision may also be appealed to the full CTE.

8. When a teacher candidate's progress has been stopped, the candidate may appeal.

Resources

• Clinical Experience Guide-Schools and Organizations (Includes an ID listing of commonly used schools and organizations locally, in Chicago and study abroad)
• Disposition Concerns Assessment form
• Gateways: ISU Performance-Based Requirements Checklist (with estimated fees)
• LiveText Fundamentals
• Council for Teacher Education