The provider ensures effective partnerships and high-quality clinical practice are central to candidate preparation. These experiences should be designed to develop candidate’s knowledge, skills, and professional dispositions to demonstrate positive impact on diverse students’ learning and development. High quality clinical practice offers candidates experiences in different settings and modalities, as well as with diverse P-12 students, schools, families, and communities. Partners share responsibility to identify and address real problems of practice candidates experience in their engagement with P-12 students (CAEP Workbook 2022).
The clinical practice in Puerto Rico is regulated by Puerto Rico Department of Education’s laws about clinical practice (see 2.1.1- CC 04-2020-2021: Public policy on the organization and operation of the educational clinical experiences program of the Department of Education of Puerto Rico and through dispositions in Law 129 of 2016 about Clinical Experiences (see 2.1.2 Law 129). The public policies provide the requisites for the selection of clinical centers, cooperative teacher and director, and the roles of each one. All Cooperative Teachers are required to have a clinical practice certification that is reviewed every three years.
Last year the UPR-Aguadilla EPP offered the certification the recertification course (15 hours) to teachers from partner schools and teachers from other universities for the first time. (see 2.1.3 Cooperative Teacher Recertification Syllabus).
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2.1.4 Recertification Syllabus for CT 2023 UPRAg
2.1.5 Teaching Practicum Orientation Manual V2