Teach Now-Transform Tomorrow is a full-year clinical internship program for USI education majors as well as secondary education and P-12 minors. USI partners with local school corporations to offer this experience. Teach Now-Transform Tomorrow clinical interns are placed in schools and are assigned to a cooperating teacher for the fall and spring semesters of the senior year.
Teach Now-Transform Tomorrow students begin the fall semester based on the school calendar at which they are placed. During the opening days, students participate in all professional development and faculty meetings with the cooperating teacher. Students work in the assigned school every day until the start of USI’s fall semester. At that time, students work in the school on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays until the end of November. Students also attend required USI classes during this time.
Students begin the fall semester doing focused observations and working with individual students and small groups. As the semester progresses, responsibilities grow to include planning, whole class instruction, using assessments, and communicating with parents. Eventually the student is immersed in all classroom activities.
Teach Now-Transform Tomorrow clinical interns begin and end the spring semester on the USI calendar. Interns work in the school five days a week in the spring semester. Interns work with the same cooperating teacher and students in fall and spring semesters.
Clinical interns are supported by the Director of Clinical Internships. During the fall and spring semesters, interns receive additional support from a university supervisor. Financial support is given in the form of a scholarship that is awarded to Teach Now-Transform Tomorrow clinical interns in both fall and spring semesters.
Applications for the clinical internship (Teach Now-Transform Tomorrow and the traditional one-semester internship) are submitted each January by students who are eligible to complete the internship the following academic year.
The Teach Now-Transform Tomorrow program is an opportunity to get a rich experience and extended time in a classroom. Graduates of the program praise the experience, and principals are eager to interview and hire Teach Now interns.
Students who are interested in the Teach Now-Transform Tomorrow program or have questions about eligibility for the program should contact Mrs. Lisa Bartley.