The MAE required coursework ensures that teacher candidates have strong clinical experiences embedded throughout their degree program. The Education Department enjoys long-standing and mutually-beneficial partnerships with all NEMO school districts, as well as numerous school districts across the state of Missouri. Further, the Director of Field Experiences routinely consults K-12 and Secondary MAE faculty to match teacher candidates to clinical experiences that will positively contribute to their development as educators. Teacher candidates matriculate through coursework that aligns with the AACTE Guiding Conceptual Model (as demonstrated on the following list) and includes between 100 and 300 clinical practice hours prior to the internship, which adds an additional minimum 720 hours:
| AACTE Step | Truman Coursework | |
| 1. | Intro Course | ED 388: Exploratory Field Experiences |
| 2. | Foundations | ED 389: Foundations of Education |
| 3. | Human Development | ED 593: Psychological Foundations of Education |
| 4. | Methods I | ED: 393: Clinical Experiences in Teaching ED 394: Experiences in Classroom Teaching |
| 5. | Methods II | [Content Area] 608G: Management of Instruction |
| 6. | Internship | ED 609G: Internship |
COVID-19 impacted placements for our students; however, we worked with multiple districts to ensure that our students were getting experiences whether they were online or face to face or with a hybrid and those data were collected by DESE for all Education Preparation Programs.