Paid Student Teaching

What is Paid Student Teaching?

Paid Student Teaching is a one-time stipend payment available for all teacher licensure students who are completing their final full-time student teaching semester in Fall 2024 or Spring 2025.

This stipend may be used at your discretion for any of your financial needs. There are no restrictions on how you must spend this funding.

We do not know when this funding will become available. Please do not make any drastic financial decisions based on receiving this funding, as it may not arrive until the late part of each semester.

Request for Paid Student Teaching Funding

Dear COEHS Teacher Candidate:

All students on track to complete their full-time (5 days per week, for the full teacher day) field experience for student teaching in Fall 2023 or Spring 2024 are  eligible for Paid Student Teaching funding.

Paid Student Teaching funding is $12,000 provided by the State of New Mexico Legislature to support you during your full-time student teaching semester. Once we receive this funding from the State, we will send all students completing their final semester of full-time student teaching in Spring 2024 a link to officially request these funds. We do not yet know the timing these funds will be available, but for Spring teacher candidates, we anticipate being able to provide the full funding amount of $12,000 by the end of January 2024. Please know this date is not guaranteed.

Teacher candidates are under no obligation regarding teaching employment to receive this funding. For example, student teachers do not have to teach a certain number of years in New Mexico to be paid as a student teacher.

PAID STUDENT TEACHING GUIDELINES

Teacher Candidates MAY receive Paid Student Teaching funding IF:

1. You will be completing your full-time student teaching semester in Spring 2024.
2. You are an Educational Assistant and a full-time student teacher.
3. You are a long-term substitute teacher and a full-time student teacher.

Teacher Candidates MAY NOT receive Paid Student Teaching funding IF:

1. You are a full-time teacher-of-record teaching on an Alternative Teaching License.
2. You are a teacher resident.

Dual Licensure teacher candidates may receive funding for each of their full-time student teaching semesters—for both Fall and Spring. Please note that Dual Licensure teacher candidates must complete the “request for funding” twice, once for each semester.

Be sure to consider the impact this taxable funding may have on other financial supports: financial aid, scholarships, child support, subsidized housing, etc.

Cooperating Teacher Funding: Each Cooperating Teacher mentoring a Paid Student Teacher is eligible to receive $1000 at the completion of the final full-time student teaching semester for the time spent in mentoring and supporting their teacher candidate. Even if the teacher candidate is opting out of this funding for reasons listed above, please consider completing the “request” so the Cooperating Teacher can receive the $1000.

Teacher candidates will receive an email for a link to officially request this funding. If any teacher candidate has any questions at all, please do not hesitate to contact Marjori Krebs, Director of Residencies, at coehsdr@unm.edu.

Sincerely,

Marjori Krebs
Director of Residencies
coehsdr@unm.edu

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Paid Student Teaching Participating Teacher Licensure Programs for Fall 2024 and Spring 2025

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