u/Deep_Function_402

I’ve posted here a few times about waits for clinical’s. My Early Clinical wait was close to 4 months, but I am happy to say my wait time for Advanced Clinical placement was 2 weeks.

I was so discouraged after the Early Clinical wait it was torture, but I do think, for me, it came down to the districts in my area not knowing what the 15 hours was for so being skeptical of it. My advice to anyone waiting for clinicals, do your praxis early, get your states requirement of fingerprints along with WGUs, and get ready to attempt your state exams asap. Those can all help speed things up a touch.

I am wondering, from anyone that is currently in their student teaching or done, on how long you waited from Advanced Clinical’s to the Student Teaching to start. Was it just the two weeks, or was it longer?

I applied for advanced clinical on July 1st.

It was a nightmare to get placed for Early Clinical’s. Which was incredibly disheartening because I live in an area with no less than a thousand schools with in 75 miles of me.

I work full time and I need to give my employer ample notice of student teaching, with a date, and I am worried the advanced clinical will take the same amount of time, around 4 months.

Can anyone tell me how long they waited to be placed for advanced clinical, was it shorter than early? Longer?