WHITEWATER, WISCONSIN (February 10, 2026) — Hannah Gault from Moline, IL, who is studying Elementary Middle Education at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, is representing the university as a student teacher during the spring 2026 semester.
Gault, a student in University of Wisconsin-Whitewater's College of Education and Professional Studies, is serving as a student teacher in the Elementary and Middle programs at Lincoln Elementary School in the Whitewater school district(s) through the end of the school year.
A total of 156 UW-Whitewater students were placed in school districts around the region starting in January. Student teaching is the final activity before teacher candidates earn their degree and license.
UW-Whitewater will partner with 191 cooperating teachers across 118 schools in 71 districts over the course of the semester.
Student teachers assist cooperating teachers with lesson planning, instruction and assessment. This spring, 33 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 fifty 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.
