Application

Application Procedures

• Elementary Education: Degree-seeking and certification-only students.
• Secondary Education: School of Education degree-seeking majors and all certification-only majors.
• Secondary Education: School of Arts and Sciences or School of Visual and Performing Arts degree-seeking majors.

All students expecting to student teach must schedule an appointment and file a completed application in The Office of Student Teaching (Neff Hall, Room 243) one year before they plan to student teach. Appointments are available between September through November for students who plan to student teach in the Fall semester, or January through March for students who plan to student teach in the Spring semester. Late applications cannot be accepted. Your student teaching will be delayed if you miss the application deadline. Please do not submit an application unless you actually intend to complete your student teaching during the coming school year.

Exact dates are available by contacting by The Office of Student Teaching (Neff Hall, Room 243, 260-481-6457).

Elementary Education: Degree-seeking and certification-only

• Download the Student Teaching Application one year before you intend to student teach by clicking on the application forms tab at the top of the page. 

• Limited Criminal History requests must be obtained from the State of Indiana (Fort Wayne Police Department reports are not sufficient).  Forms are available online at www.in.gov/isp/lch. You may complete your Limited Criminal History request by either mailing in the request (allow 2-3 weeks) with payment or by completing the online request (credit card required) and printing the report the same day.  If a student has lived outside of Indiana within the past year, s/he must contact the Office of Field Services/Student Teaching before completing any Limited Criminal History report. Teaching requests cannot be sent to schools without an LCH form attached.  If a student selects a school district that requires an Extended Back Ground Check both LCH forms will be required before application can be sent.  Another LCH may be requested by a school/district prior to student teaching. 

• Complete course planning sheet (page two), in coordination with your academic advisor, showing required coursework needed prior to student teaching. This procedure includes admittance to the teacher education program, posting an overall GPA of 2.5 or above, a GPA of 2.5 or higher in Professional Education Courses, and completion of required methods and lab/field experience courses. The final requirement sheet (page three) will be completed by the Director of Field Services.

• Select school corporations for your student teaching placement from the approved school corporation list at www.ipfw.edu/cepp-applications. **If choosing Northwest or Southwest Allen County Schools you must have an overall GPA of 3.0. If you select East Noble, MSD Bluffton-Harrison, NACS or SACS you will need to submit an unofficial transcript from KT 107 (NOT OASIS)with your application. 

• TYPE and provide ONE full copy of pages 1-8 and FOUR copies of the Student Teacher Information Form (pages six, seven and eight) as these pages are sent to your requested school corporation(s).

• Make placement request appointment with Director of Student Teaching (Neff Hall, Room 243, 481-6457) to submit completed application and verified Limited Criminal History (LCH) Form before the published deadline.

**Please do not make formal contact with any teacher or administrator of a school system without the permission of The Office of Student Teaching.

Application Forms

How to Use Adobe Acrobat Forms

If you only have the free, basic Adobe Acrobat Reader, you will not be able to save any information that you type into these forms. Complete the form in its entirety, proofread it several times and print the required number of forms before closing Acrobat Reader. Once you close Acrobat Reader, your information will be removed from the form and only the blank form can be saved. If you find errors after you have closed Acrobat Reader, you will have to retype the information. You must have the full version of Adobe Acrobat 4.0, 5.0 or 6.0 to save the completed form.

1. Right click  on the link for the document that you would like to download. Note: If you left click, or if you cannot right click (Mac users), and the document opens in your Internet browser, you can complete and print the form but you may not be able to save the blank form. Complete the form in its entirety and print the completed form before closing Acrobat Reader.
2. Choose “Save As” (in Netscape) or “Save Target As” (in Internet Explorer).
3. Browse to the location on your computer where you would like to save the file and click “Save.” This will save the blank form. It is very important that you remember where you have saved your file.
4. Open Acrobat Reader. Go to File>Open, browse to the location of the saved file, choose the file and click “Open.”
5. Complete all the required fields on the form, proofread the form several times and print the required number of copies.
6. If you have the full version of Adobe Acrobat, and if you would like to save the completed form, but save the blank form for future use, go to File>Save As and save the completed form with a new title. Otherwise, go to File>Save and save the form. If you only have the free, basic Acrobat Reader, you will not be able to save the completed form.

Note: All forms can still be printed blank and completed by hand. However, pages six, seven and eight must be typed. Be sure to provide the required number of copies. It is recommended that you also print a copy for yourself.

If you don’t already have a newer version of Acrobat Reader, a free download of Acrobat Reader 8.1 is available online.

You must have Acrobat Reader before trying to use any of these forms.

Student Teaching Applications

Be sure you have read the directions above before proceeding.

Elementary Education [PDF]
(Degree-seeking and certification-only)

Secondary Education [PDF]
(Education degree-seeking majors and all certification-only majors)

If you are unsure which application to complete, please contact the Office of Student Teaching.
The IPFW Education Office of Student Teaching shall not be responsible for any damages of any kind arising out of or related to the use, or misuse, of these forms.