To better prepare its teachers - in - training, the Unified Elementary ProTeach program year introduces the
yearlong internship as the culminating experience
for teacher candidates in their graduate year of the five - year program.
Columbia, Harvard, Stanford, and the University of Chicago, among others, launched
yearlong postgraduate programs that typically placed candidates in schools
for a full year of student - teaching
internships in the classrooms of expert veteran teachers, while the candidates also took coursework from the university.