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3.2 Quality clinical experiences, in the context of documented and effective partnerships with P12 school districts

All Northwest teacher, leader, and counselor candidates engage in rich, quality clinical experiences with our B-12 partners beginning in their first semester in the program, continuing through their program and culminating in their final semester. These clinical experiences are narrated briefly in this section and then explained in detail in Table 4: Northwest Teacher Field Experiences Crosswalk. In alignment with Missouri requirements (as outlined in MoSPE Standard 3 and in the DESE Code of State Regulations), these include a minimum of thirty early-level field experience hours, forty-five mid-level field experience hours, and a total of sixteen weeks in their culminating field experience. All candidates, in both the old and newly redesigned programs, in both undergraduate and graduate programs, and in both initial and advanced programs, complete experiences with students from racially-diverse, linguistically-diverse, and SES-diverse backgrounds, and in both rural and urban school settings.

We have divided this section of the QAR is divided into six sub-sections: the first and second describe teacher candidates’ early-level and mid-level clinical experiences in our old programs, those candidates who are graduating in 2019, 2020, and 2021. The third and fourth describe teacher candidates’ early-level and mid-level clinical experiences in our newly redesigned programs, who will complete their programs beginning in 2021 (as described previously, there may be some overlap in 2021 and 2022 of the old and newly redesigned programs). The fifth details candidates’ culminating clinical experiences from both the old and new programs and the sixth and last section describes clinical experiences in the advanced programs.