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The Field Experience Office is responsible for the placement of students from First Year students to Graduate students.

Resources

As a field practitioner supervising Wheelock students, there are many resources both on campus and off campus available to you. Practitioners are welcome to in-house use of all Library materials. Students, faculty, alumnae and cooperating personnel from the greater Boston community are invited to use the resource center as a workshop for developing their own materials and to borrow equipment from the lending library.

Wheelock Resources available include:

• Wheelock Library
• The Resource Center
• The Wheelock Family Theatre

Wheelock Voucher Information

Wheelock College is excited to be able to offer vouchers to our partners in the field as a thank you for the hard work and dedication involved in mentoring students. Supervising Practitioners who have a full-time or 150-hour (or more) Wheelock student are issued a voucher good toward one course taken at Wheelock. These can be used toward other Wheelock programs. Vouchers are issued for the three semesters following the semester in which the student is supervised.

Check the Voucher Policy Guide [pdf] and Voucher Policy [pdf] for details about how vouchers can be used.

Field Experience Guidebooks

The Guidebooks for practicum are now online to be viewed and printed by students, supervising practitioners, and supervisors. Hardcopies are also available through the Field Experience Office upon request.

• Education
• Child Life and Family-Centered Care
• Human Growth and Development

Criteria for education placements

In developing field placements for education students, Wheelock College uses the following criteria:

• Inclusive sites — Program services children with diverse abilities including children with special needs. Students with special needs must be on an Individualized Educational Plan (IEP). All attempts must be made to have special education services integrated into the daily program for each child.
• Urban placements where students will have field based experiences in the community where Wheelock College is located.
• Quality models of professional practice.
• Practitioners with a strong commitment to mentoring new professionals.
• Range of experience — Opportunities to work with a team across many roles, with parents, and with the community.
• Clustering — Multiple students and placements at one site