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Fieldwork & Observations

As an education major at Elizabethtown College, you will have field experiences every year from your first year through your senior year. Field placements occur in urban, suburban and rural schools, and in a variety of grades within your certification guidelines. Our program stresses the importance of quality supervised filed experiences which complement on-campus courses in education.

Affiliated Placement Sites

The following list is a compilation of school districts that include public and private schools that we typically place students in for Field Placements.

Public:                                                                                    

  • Annville-Cleona School District
  • Camp Hill School District
  • Central Dauphin School District
  • Central York School District
  • Columbia Borough School District
  • Conestoga Valley School District
  • Cornwall-Lebanon School District
  • Cumberland Valley School District
  • Dallastown Area School District
  • Derry Township School District
  • Donegal School District
  • Eastern York School District
  • Elizabethtown Area School District
  • Ephrata Area School District
  • Harrisburg School District
  • Hempfield School District
  • Lancaster School District
  • Lower Dauphin School District
  • Manheim Central School District
  • Manheim Township School District
  • Mechanicsburg Area School District
  • Middletown Area School District
  • Northern Lebanon School District
  • Palmyra Area School District
  • Penn Manor School District
  • Susquehanna Township School District
  • York Suburban School District
  • Warwick School District

Private:

  • Capital Area Intermediate Unit
  • Elizabethtown Childcare Center
  • Elizabethtown Community Nursery School
  • Headstart – Capital Area
  • Hildebrandt Learning Center - Landisville
  • Hildebrandt Learning Center – Masonic Village
  • IU 13 Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit
  • Kraybill Mennonite School
  • LIU 12 Lincoln Intermediate Unit
  • Middletown Christian Pre-School
  • Milton Hershey School
  • Mount Calvary Christian School
  • New Story – Harrisburg Campus & York Campus
  • River Rock Academy – Hellam Campus
  • Schreiber Pediatric S.T.A.R.S. Pre-School
  • St. Joan of Arc School
  • St. Peter's School (although, closed Fall 2012)
  • Susquehanna Waldorf School
  • The Goddard School - Hershey
  • The Janus School
  • The Vista School
  • U-GRO Learning Centres, Inc. – Bent Creek, Centerville, Hershey

Student Teaching

Student teaching, your professional internship, is the capstone experience of our various teacher preparation education programs. Student teachers are placed at cooperating school districts in the local and surrounding areas. Students may petition to be considered for partial student teaching abroad or at a Native American boarding school – Pierre Indian Learning Center in Pierre, South Dakota, in combination with a Pennsylvania placement. College supervisors and cooperating teachers work in partnership to mentor the student teacher and provide a quality learning experience.

Academic Service-Learning 

Many curricular and co-curricular opportunities will arise that will help prepare you to enter the field of education. These include reading to children at libraries, tutoring Spanish-speaking children and adults that are learning English, volunteering as a science fair judge, tutoring local students and many more.

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