Record Field Experience Hours
After Field Experience
At the end of a field experience, students must complete the second requirement: Record Field Experience Hours.
In order for Field Experience Hours to be applied to a teacher education degree, Field Experience Hours must be recorded before the end of the semester they were conducted. Students are responsible for recording their Field Experience Hours and ensuring cooperating teachers approve the Field Experience Hours.
To Record Field Experience Hours
- Log-in using the link below. Scroll to “My Early Field Experience Logs” and click “create new field experience log.”
- Enter your student information. Only your name, UIN, and UIC email are required. Then hit “next.”
- Enter the log details:
- Select the term, course, and UIC instructor. Be sure to change these first three fields to the correct information.
- Enter the total number of hours you completed, whether you selected the site, and the grade levels.
- Search for the cooperating teacher’s profile by typing their full name in the ‘Cooperating Teacher’ search field.
- If the cooperating teacher is in the system, their profile will appear below the search field. (Be sure you are typing their complete, correct name.) Select their name, then “school associated with teacher.”
- If the cooperating teacher is not in the system, click back two screens to select the button “Create New Cooperating Teacher,” and fill-in the cooperating teacher’s information. Then, proceed to click “Create New Field Experience Log” and enter the field experience data as explained above.
- Verify the final box in the field experience log next to “Ready for Approval” is checked. Then hit save.
Students are responsible for obtaining and inputting correct cooperating teacher information if the cooperating teacher is not in the system.
Contact the Council on Teacher Education at uic_cte@uic.edu with any questions about the Field Experience Hours process.