WHITEWATER — Students from the university’s College of Education and Professional Studies will serve as student teachers through January 2026.

A total of 179 UW-Whitewater students were placed in school districts around the region starting in August. Student teaching is the final activity before teacher candidates earn their degree and license.

UW-Whitewater will partner with 223 cooperating teachers across 175 schools in 117 districts over the course of the semester.

Student teachers assist cooperating teachers with lesson planning, instruction and assessment. This fall, 42 UW-Whitewater teacher candidates were hired by school districts as student teaching interns as part of the Department of Public Instruction’s Wisconsin Improvement Program (WIP). Interns are licensed by the DPI to teach up to 50 percent of each day on their own and receive a stipend for the semester.

UW-Whitewater licenses the most teachers in the state of Wisconsin. Educating teachers was the university’s original mission during its founding in 1868. To learn more about the College of Education and Professional Studies at UW-Whitewater, visit uww.edu/coeps.

The following students will represent the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater as student teachers during the fall 2025 semester:

●  Molly Deegan, Evansville is majoring in Special Education MSE and will work in Special Education at Brooklyn Elementary School the Oregon school district.

●  Amy Doyle, Brodhead, is majoring in Special Education and will work in SPECED 4U at Evansville High School the Evansville school district.

●  Alison Ruphard, Belleville, is majoring in Special Education and will work in SPECED 4U at Verona High School the Verona school district.

●  Brynna Winkers, Belleville, is majoring in Special Education and will work in Special Education at Milele Chikasa Anana Elementary School the Madison school district.