Clinical Experience Semester
What To Expect
Students participate in a formal orientation process to become eligibile for certification courses and will provide the School of Education with all requirements explained in the Blackboard Course Teacher Education Program Overview & Entrance Requirements. You should see this Course on your GoPortal after your First Year or Transfer Orientation. If you don't see it, please email SOE@stockton.edu to request access.
The Clinical Experience semester includes 50 hours of fieldwork with associated courses and assignments.
Prerequisites to enter into the Clinical Experience semester are:
- Basic Skill requirements - One of the following:
- Core Praxis Test
- appopriate SAT/ ACT
- W1 and Q1 above B-
- Criminal Background Clearance or Substitute Teaching Certificate
- Negative TB Test
- State Code Exam (formerly know as Health Test)
- HIB and Child Abuse - found in the Introductory Blackboard course
All above listed documentation has to be uploaded to the Blackboard site by these deadlines:
- April 1st to apply for the next Fall semester
- October 1st to apply for the next Spring Semester
- March 1st to apply for the Summer Semester
Praxis Core scores will automatically register in your Degree Works when you select Stockton to receive one of your free score reports. If you have scores that are not in Degree Works after 2 weeks, please let us know that you have upladed them to Blackboard.
Once all documents are uploaded to Blackboard, fill out the TEDU Entrance Requirements Blackboard Completion form in Module 8. This will trigger us to add you to the Exxat application course and if you are eligible, we will send you a link to the CX application in Exxat about a month before the deadlines.
Filling out the application will not guarantee admittance to the Summer CX semester and fieldwork.
Make an appointment with your preceptor(s) on the precepting days:
- Fall Semester: Late October/Early November
- Spring Semester: Late March/Early April
You MUST see your preceptor to be able to be registered in the Clinincal Experience course EDUC 3100 and EDUC 3105 (if applicable). You can find the name(s) of your preceptor(s) on your Degree Works in the top section.
You will not be able to enroll yourself into these Fieldwork courses. You will be enrolled by office staff.
To see the curriculum for your area of interest use Degree Works.
If you are a current student at Stockton University, access your portal for Degree Works, then look for the “what if” option to explore the various teacher certification paths.
This program is accessible even if you are not currently a student with Stockton University. in this case, follow the instructions on the Eudcation Interest sheet you can find here.
We have following program paths/degree options available:
If you are interested to enter Clinical EXperience in the Summer Semester, we ask you to fill out this Qualtrics survey, so we can send you the correct Exxat application.
The hard deadline is March 1st. Basic Skills requirements, finalized Criminal Background Check and negative TB result will have to be received, and the modules of the Blackboard course have to be done by March 1st. Your GPA has to be a 3.0 or above.
Filling out the application will not guarantee admittance to the Summer CX semester and fieldwork.
