Due Process

Please consult Dr. Shea for specific information on due process. The following provides an overview of due process.

1. Clinical education students must be provided a specific and complete statement of requirements and expectations.

2. The student must be provided with a specific description of the competencies by which he or she will be evaluated, detailing the processes to be used.

3. Actual supervisor practice at both the school and college level must be consistent with published policy available to the student in advance.

4. Orientation of students should provide, in writing, supervisor and institutional requirements.

5. Supervisory observations should be frequent, comprehensive, recorded, and followed up.

6. Conferences should be held after observations and include a detailed written summary, with copies retained by student and supervisor.

7. Adequate conferring time must be provided throughout the program.

8. Evaluation must be within the context of improvement of stated competencies.

9. Grades awarded must relate directly to the stated criteria for those grades.

10. Supervisors should maintain continuing, factual, objective, written records on each clinical student they supervise, and the student should always receive a copy.

11. Students should be informed in advance of the steps that will ensure due process for them.

12. It should be made clear that clinical experiences are courses within the curricular framework of the university and, as such, removal from student teaching does not require a full hearing if it is for academic reasons.

13. Every effort should be made to let students participate in decisions made about them and to know the data upon which those decisions were made.

14. Students may continue in the clinical experience as long as they complete established requirements and demonstrate at least the stated minimum levels of competence.

15. Students may be removed from the clinical experience if it is determined that the pupils assigned to the setting are suffering from their presence.

Source: University of Missouri at St. Louis