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Early Childhood Education Student Teaching/Internships

A degree in Early Childhood Education leads to licensure in kindergarten through grade three. Students have the option of completing their program by doing either student teaching or an internship. Student teaching is a one semester experience in which early childhood students will student teach in either a kindergarten or a preschool for 1 block and then in an elementary grade 1st-3rd for the other block. An internship is a full school year experience where the early childhood student would be hired by one of BYU’s partnership districts to be the teacher in a kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, or 3rd grade classroom (kindergarten internships are not very common). Due to the fact that the early childhood license requires students to do student teaching in both a kindergarten or a preschool and a primary grade (1st-3rd), students who choose to do an internship will also need to complete a block of student teaching in the area which they are not doing their internship during the spring semester before their internship or the summer semester after their internship.