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For education majors, student teaching is the capstone, the time when they step into the classroom and immerse themselves in their subjects and their students.
Only, last year, many didn’t. COVID-19 upended how student teachers were assigned, how they taught, and how they were evaluated. And it accelerated a change already underway: the use of technology.
“We have certainly had to pivot, often, and in ways that a year-and-a-half ago we would have never imagined,” said Roxanne Sorrick, head of teacher education at Hiram College.
That was mirrored throughout the state.
The Ohio Department of Education requires about 100 hours of fieldwork before student teaching as part of the licensure process.