Clinical Education
ESOL Field Experience
Many of our graduates will satisfy requirements toward eligibility of an English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL). One of the requirements for the ESOL endorsement is the ESOL Late Field Experience.
LATE FIELD EXPERIENCE STEP-BY-STEP
- Review the ESOL Endorsement Requirements information
- Print a copy of the ESOL Late Field Experience form
- Ask your collaborating teacher to initial on the form the ESOL Performance Standards that were met.
- Ask your USF Internship Supervisor to sign the document.
- Include the document in ESOL CampusFolio Binder.
- Scan the document and upload to Chalk and Wire.
- Also, submit a copy to the program coordinator to verify.
ESOL LATE FIELD EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS
Teacher candidates must document that they have successfully taught in a classroom where there was at least one ESOL student. ESOL competencies include planning, implementing, and evaluating instruction for one or more students over a series of weeks (min. 2 weeks). To document the completion of the minimum performance standards required in this field experience, teacher candidates use the Late Field Experience Form.
The field experience can start at any time after the ESOL 1 course, and up through their final internship.
In an ideal late field experience/internship situation, the teacher candidate will be placed in a classroom with an ESOL-endorsed collaborating teacher and one or more ESOL students. Teacher candidates are placed in a classroom with the appropriate ESOL conditions by their internship coordinator.
If the placements do not meet these requirements, teacher candidates must inform the person or office that placed them as well as the ESOL office administrator for special arrangements.