Lexie Weier from Mineral Point, WI, who is studying Elementary Middle Education at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, is representing the university as a student teacher during the fall 2026 semester.
Weier, a student in UW-Whitewater’s College of Education and Professional Studies, is serving as a student teacher through January 2027.
A total of 169 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 213 cooperating teachers across 148 schools in 99 districts over the course of the semester.
Student teachers assist cooperating teachers with lesson planning, instruction and assessment. This fall, 32 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.