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The mission of the Office of School and Community Partnerships is to encourage and support our teacher candidates in their journey from participant observers to certified education professionals. Our goal is to work with our partner school districts to help each teacher candidate to develop the skills, knowledge and dispositions necessary to become a skilled professional dedicated to educating all students.
Through its extensive partnerships with school districts in surrounding communities, Adelphi University offers candidates a range of opportunities to hone their teaching skills, meet program requirements or receive paid graduate internships, while developing the proficiencies needed to teach in our global society. Teacher candidates are expected to demonstrate an understanding of national and state standards and to apply the knowledge of teaching and learning developed within the university classroom and through field experiences to meet school curricular goals.
To complete field work requirements, Adelphi offers placements in school districts throughout the metropolitan area including:
- Bellmore
- Bellmore-Merrick
- BOCES
- Commack
- East Meadow
- Elmont
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- Freeport
- Garden City
- Great Neck
- Hempstead
- Manhasset
- Mineola
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- North Bellmore
- Oceanside
- Plainview
- Port Washington
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- Region 3, NYC
- Roosevelt
- Valley Stream
- Westbury
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All field experiences are carefully and professionally supervised to ensure that candidates develop and demonstrate the knowledge, skills and dispositions necessary to help all students learn and are aligned with the Core Values that represent the shared values and mission of Adelphi University. Field experiences and weekly seminars with site supervisors enable candidates to develop strategies for improving student learning and to confront issues of diversity that affect teaching. Teacher Candidates must have diverse field work experiences including at least one placement in a high needs site within our existing partnerships in New York City and/or Nassau/Suffolk county.
Adelphi University’s intensive teacher preparation program encompasses a minimum of 100 hours of field work and student teaching. For students who are completing fieldwork requirements as part of their Methods courses, applications are due to the Fieldwork Office the semester before the fieldwork is required. Candidates must apply through the Office of School and Community Partnerships one year before beginning their student teaching.
Candidates with outstanding undergraduate and/or graduate school records in education can apply for paid graduate internships in adolescence education. Those enrolled in a master's program in their area of certification can serve as interns for a full academic year to meet the student-teaching requirements for New York State certification. Please consult the adolescence education program director and/or the director of School and Community Partnerships for further information about these programs.
Adelphi Model Program
The Ammon School of Education offers Adelphi graduate teacher candidates a two-semester participant observation/student teaching program. Candidates have the opportunity to observe and participate in classroom activities during the fall semester and begin their student teaching experience during the spring semester. They are assigned to K–12 schools that have developed a partnership with Adelphi University and meet with a University liaison at their school sites each week. Students must have an over-all index of 3.0 to be eligible for the program and engage in an interview as part of the acceptance process.
Applications for the Adelphi Model Program must be filed by March 1 of the semester prior to the fall term in which the candidate will begin this two-semester program. Please consult the director of School and Community Partnerships for further information.
Candidates accepted for the Adelphi Model initiative are assigned two experienced teacher mentors and a University liaison who meets with them each week for the two semesters. During the first semester, candidates have the opportunity to observe and participate in classroom activities. Their 16-week student teaching experience begins during the second semester. Students must have an overall index of 3.0 to be eligible for the program, complete a writing sample and engage in an interview as part of the acceptance process.
Since Spring 2004, partnerships have been established with the following schools:
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P.S. 94Q
P.S. 130Q
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Queens High School for Teaching
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| Long Island: |
Bellmore/North Bellmore Elem. Districts
Freeport School District
Valley Stream School District 24
Bay Shore School District |
Bellmore Merrick Central H.S.
Mineola School District
Sewanhaka Central H.S. District
Franklin Square School District |
Contact
For additional information, please contact:
JoAnn Cosentino
Director,
School and Community Partnerships
Harvey Hall, Room 111
p - 516.877.4087
e - cosentino@adelphi.edu
Ina Hymes
Assistant Director,
School and Community Partnerships
Harvey Hall, Room 111
p - 516.877.4076
e - hymes@adelphi.edu
Linda Beneventano
Assistant Director
School and Community Partnerships
Harvey Hall, Room 111
p - 516 877 4043
e - beneventano@adelphi.edu
Rita Russo
Administrative Assistant
Harvey Hall, Room 111
p - 516 877 4086
e - russo@adelphi.edu
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