Field Experience and Internship
The Internship is the culminating clinical field experience in all state approved educator preparation programs at the University of Florida. EduGator Central processes application materials and coordinates the internship placements across several subject areas and throughout the state of Florida.
Please contact the internship coordinator at StudentPlacements@coe.ufl.edu with any questions you may have regarding clinical field experiences.
Program Contacts
All students should contact their individual internship program coordinators if they have specific questions about their program requirements. These contacts are listed below:
Internship Application Deadlines
All applications for internship must be receieved by the dates indicated below.
| Internship Application | Spring Deadline | Fall Deadline |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural Education | October 1 | January 31 |
| Art Education | October 1 | January 31 |
| Early Childhood Education BAE | N/A | February 11 |
| Elementary Education BAE | N/A | February 11 |
| Elementary Education ProTeach – Single & Dual Cert | September 15 | January 31 |
| Music Education | October 1 | February 11 |
| Secondary Education Graduate Certificate Program: English, Math, Science (Biology, Chemistry & Physics) and Social Studies | N/A | June 1 |
Early Field Experience Opportunities
We offer early field experience opportunities within Alachua County Schools through the following courses:
EDF1005 - Introduction to Education
Credits: 3
Description:
Overview of education, teaching and schools; a survey of historical, philosophical and social foundations; and an orientation to professional education and the code of ethics. Thirty hours of field experience is required. This is the first of three prerequisite core courses (EDF 2085 Teaching Diverse Populations and EME 2040 Introduction to Educational Technology) for students who plan to be teachers.
EDF2085 - Teaching Diverse Populations
Credits: 3
Description:
Surveys educational demographics, foundations of prejudice, elements of culture, political and philosophical roots of diversity and commonality, exceptionalities, and barriers to cultural understanding and diversity in the classroom. A minimum of 30 hours of field experience is required with 15 hours in a diverse setting. (See also EDF 1005 and EME 2040.) (D and S)
Where were our UF interns last year?
During the 2021-2022 academic year, approximately 707 full and part-time placements were made, and
30 Florida school districts hosted UF full-time interns.
Live Text by Watermark Field Experience Module (FEM)
LiveText Field Experience Module (FEM)
How do I purchase LiveText by Watermark and Register my Account?
- Visit https://www.livetext.com/purchase_membership/
- Enter your personal information (Please use your UF e-mail in all fields)
- Create a LiveText Account
- Select the Edition that costs – $139 from the drop-down menu (for 7-year license).
- Enter payment information and click Submit Billing and Create Account
IMPORTANT EMAIL NOTICE: Despite LiveText asking for a school and personal email address, make sure that ALL email fields are your ULF (Gator Link) email address.
Uploading Your Placement Application to LiveText
Uploading your internship placement application to your field experience in Livetext is a fairly simple process. Follow the steps revealed below.
- At the bottom center of the Field Experience screen you are able to add attachments by clicking on the +Add Attachments button.
- There are two options: LiveText Documents that you can link such as a portfolio, and to Add Attachments such as Word Documents, PDF’s and PPT’s that you have uploaded to LiveText.
- To upload new files to LiveText from your computer, such as your internship application, click on Upload New File button.
- Once you locate the file that you want to upload to the placement you will select the +Add button to add the document as a file to the placement.
- When you are finished click Close, and you will now see the attached internship application to your field experience course. This will now be viewable by your Mentor Teacher and your University Supervisor.
Mentor Teacher Resources & Honor Roll
Certificate of Participation
Mentor Teachers and Site Hosts have the opportunity to receive a Certificate of Participation (CoP) for participation during certain field experience courses.
The CoP can be redeemed at any of the twelve public State University System of Florida (SUS) institutions as payment for up to 6 credit hours of course work during one term of instruction. It will cover the tuition fees, but other applicable fees will be payable by the certificate holder. That amount varies at each institution. A certificate is good for up to 3 years from the date issued.
Once you have met the requirements for earning a CoP it will not automatically be issued to a Mentor Teacher or Site Host. If you are planning to use a certificate and would like one printed and sent to you, please complete the request form below:
Certificate of Participation (CoP)
LiveText by Watermark Mentor Teacher FAQs
What is LiveText by Watermark?
The College of Education is dedicated to ensuring we collect data on our courses and use this information to continuously improve our programs’ excellence. As part of this process, we are now using LiveText.com to collect assessments from instructors, students, and mentor teachers. LiveText by Watermark will post assessments each semester, and you will be asked to complete them by the end of the semester for the College of Education. While not all courses have associated assessments, you are required to complete any available assessments. Near the end of each semester, you should receive timely email reminders sent to the email address that is registered with your LiveText account. The deadline for completing all assessments coincides with the deadline for submitting end of term grades.
LiveText by Watermark Account
1) If you are serving as a Mentor Teacher for a UF student, the College of Education will send a cooperating mentor teacher account to your school/district email address. You should receive this email as soon as the placement is confirmed. These assessments review the UF student’s performance in your classroom and provide the College of Education with quantitative data on the performance of our students. This allows the college to identify areas for improvement within our programs.
If you did not receive the account email, please contact Rebecca Kidwell at rkidwell@coe.ufl.edu . The LiveText account activation email is sent directly from LiveText and should read as follows:
Email Subject: Your Field Experience Mentor Account
“Dear YOUR NAME,
Thank you for agreeing to be a field experience mentor. You have been added to a list of available mentors and will be notified when a placement is made. During this placement, assessments and other activities will be managed through an online application called LiveText.
To log in, go to www.livetext.com, and enter the following username and password:
User name: [YOUR USERNAME… this will be customized for your account.]
Password: [YOUR PASSWORD… this will be customized for your account.]
Thank you for the contributions you will make to your mentee’s professional development.”
2) Visit https://www.livetext.com/, and enter your login information in the top-right corner of the LiveText screen.
3) The first time you visit LiveText.com, you will be asked to select a security question. This is added in case you ever forget your username and/or password and need helping logging in. Your LiveText username will never change, but you have the OPTION to change the password by:
4) Clicking “My Account” in the upper right corner
5) Clicking “Change Password.” You will be asked to enter the old password first, then to enter and confirm the new password you created.
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