DIRECTIONS FOR ALL FORMS
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Remember that your forms will be the first impression a school district has of you. They must look crisp and professional, and be error-free. Forms not completed on-line will not be accepted and will have to be done over again.

Numbers of copies required:

	3 copies of your Personal Data Form
	1 copy of a Special Consideration Form (only if you have special needs)
	1 copy of the Student Teaching Application if you are planning to take Student Teaching or Sr. Field/Student Teaching

When you pull up the appropriate form, the little hand changes to a cursor when you have reached a place where you can fill in a space. For short bits of information, the cursor will fall on the same line as the requested information. On the lower area of the form where you answer questions with full sentences, the cursor will fall under the typed line.  Use your mouse to move from topic to topic and at the end of the form, be sure to move your cursor back to another space in order for your last line to be saved for printing. You will have noticed that as you move to another line, the line you just completed will automatically be bolded and will print. 

A finite amount of space has been given to each question, so try to reword your information/sentences to fit. If you have more information than there is space for, type "Please see attached sheet" and give your entire response on a blank sheet using Microsoft WORD. If you do this, remember to put your name on the sheet and to indicate what question you're answering. Then attach it to the form you've completed.

Always use both upper and lower cases when completing information. NEVER USE ALL CAPS!!!!

When providing information on previous field experiences, you should be as specific as possible and indicate details such as town/district, school, grade level or age group, and when applicable, the exceptionality and setting (resource room, self-contained classroom, inclusive).

When completing the sections asking for your interests or activities, you should use complete, grammatically sound sentences where possible. e.g.  Community Activities: I volunteer at the Bloomingdale Animal Shelter five hours each week.  I walk the rescued dogs at the shelter.  I also teach a 5^th grade class of CCD students at my parish.  

None of us can easily catch our own errors, so always share your writing with someone you can trust for candid feedback. Use spell check on your forms, then have someone else check it  before sending it to your professor for final approval.

Forms completed within Adobe cannot be saved unless you also have Adobe Acrobat on your machine. Therefore, print your form, review it, revise it, and then print the final forms to turn in. When you print the document, be sure to use the print icon right above the form you have completed. If you go all the way to the top of the screen, you will have moved out of the Adobe window and back into Windows.

Only after you are sure the form is 100% correct and have your professor's initials at the bottom, will your professor submit three copies to the Placement Office. The Placement Office will not process placement requests that have not been approved and initialed by a professor.