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Elementary Education Student Teaching/Internships

A degree in Elementary Education leads to licensure that will allow opportunities for teaching in 1st – 6th grade. If an elementary education student wishes to also be able to teach in 7th or 8th grade, they may complete a teaching minor in a content area that is taught in middle schools (see advisement center for details about this possibility). 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 elementary education students will do two different blocks of student teaching; one in a lower elementary grade and one in an upper elementary grade. An internship is a full school year experience where the elementary education student would be hired by one of BYU’s partnership districts to be the teacher in a 1st – 6th grade classroom.