Center for Educator Preparation
The UNH College of Professional Studies embeds the required clinical hours into the clinical courses. Students complete the required hours for New Hampshire Education Department licensure within these courses. Your coursework and assignments build capacity over time and are hands-on, research based, and directly applicable to the students’ practice.
Creating a Successful Clinical Placement
Read our tips and advice for setting up a successful clinical placement.
Clinical A Course Clinical Assignments Overview
Find a list of Clinical A courses at the introductory, intermediate, and advanced levels, including assignments you’ll complete for each.
Clinical A course clinical assignment descriptions and due dates
Professional Disposition Assessment
“Dispositions” refers to the personal and professional qualities or characteristics that are possessed by an educator, including their commitments, values, and ethics. This template will evaluate candidates on these qualities and provide a score.
Observations
Teacher candidates are observed and scored on items identified according to the level course being taken. Use the following tools to understand and successfully fulfill the requirements.
Clinical Hours
As a teacher candidate, you are required to log clinical hours at your cooperating school. Clinical hours must include the supervision (not necessarily presence) of an experienced, certified professional during which a teacher candidate participates in the instruction and assessment of students. Use the following resources to coordinate and organize your clinical hours.
Reflective Analysis of Student Work (RASW)
The purpose of the RASW is to help you form a “habit of mind” where you are reflecting upon your impact on the student, i.e. are they learning? And if not, how can you address the issues in order to help the student make progress? The following resources will help you record your reflective analysis.
Clinical Experience Educators
A Clinical Experience Educator (CEE) offers suggestions on the clinical placement of the teacher candidate in a cooperating school. In addition, the CEE will: informally observe and provide feedback to the teacher candidate (TC), confer with, mentor and support candidate throughout their licensure program for an average of 10 hours per Clinical A course, and offer input on the teacher candidate’s UNH CPS class assignments when solicited by the teacher candidate.
To serve as a CEE, you must have a minimum of five years of teaching experience and hold the current license in the area(s) in which the candidate is pursuing licensure for. CEEs are provided with Professional Development certificates for their time spent working with a teacher candidate each term.
Here are additional resources to help you support a teacher candidate as a Clinical Experience Educator!
- Clinical Experience Educator Authorization Form
- General Information for Clinical Experience Educators
- Clinical Experience Educator Orientation
- Clinical Placement and Experiences for Cooperating Schools and Programs
- Role of the Clinical Experience Educator
- Clinical Hour Requirements by Licensure Program
- Observation and Post Conference Assignment
- Clinical Experience Educator Feedback Form
- Post Observation Discussion Topics
- Request for Professional Development Hours
- TCAP Clinical Experience Educator Survey
For Cooperating Schools and Programs
Our clinical based, job-embedded licensure programs allow teacher candidates to become licensed while working or volunteering in a school.