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Secondary Education Student Teaching/Internships

A degree in Secondary Education leads to licensure that will allow opportunities for teaching in grades 6th – 12th in a specific content area. The McKay School of Education provides a program which licenses secondary teachers for the public schools. In addition to content courses in the field(s) in which students plan to teach, they complete professional education courses and practicum experiences which prepare them to teach in a secondary school setting. Secondary Education 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 students will student teach in their specific content area in a middle school, junior high, or high school (some content areas are required to do two different blocks of student teaching vs. staying in the same placement for the full semester; see your department for more details). An internship is a full school year experience where the secondary education student can be hired by one of BYU’s partnership districts to be the teacher in a secondary school in their major content area (internships are not available for all content areas; see your department for more details). Students with teaching minors are not required to student teach in their teaching minor.