Field Experience Hours Log - Secondary Education | Woodring College of Education

Introduction

Teacher education students are required to track all hours that take place in a practicum or internship so Woodring College can report these hours to the Professional Educator Standards Board.

The purpose of the log is to enable education students to report their hours. Please refer to the information and directions for logging hours below.

Go to Hours Log

The hours that you enter in the log must be a true and accurate reflection of the time you have earned in your internship. Therefore, you may not estimate your hours, round your hours, or log future hours for days that you have not yet completed.

The lists below are intended to provide examples of allowable and non-allowable activities when recording hours spent in the student teaching internship. These lists are not exhaustive and questions about activities that are allowable can be directed to the Field Supervisor/UIC or OFE Director.

General activities that ARE allowable for counting hours include:

Independent or co-planning instruction, including weekends and evening hours
Observing or delivering instruction
Developing, reviewing, and scoring student assessments and assignments
Reviewing core curriculum and finding supplemental curricular materials
Instructional material preparation
Attending school meetings, including staff meetings, IEPs, and grade level/department meetings
Attending school, district, or university sponsored professional development
Attending events such as Open House, Curriculum Night, and Parent-Teacher Conferences
After school music or performing arts practice where you are in the role of teacher and engaged in the work of instructing, leading, or supporting students
Attending school sponsored events where you are in the role of teacher and engaged in the work of instructing, leading, or supporting students (ex: conducting the band at a football game, robotics club)
Field trips, including travel time if you have student supervision responsibilities

Activities that you CANNOT include in your hours:

Travel to/from the school site
Travel to/from school sponsored extracurricular activities
Coaching or volunteering with after school sports
Attending school sponsored events where you are not engaged in the work of instructing, leading, or supporting students (ex: football game as a spectator)
Attending WWU courses

Examples of activities that cannot be counted towards your hours, but that could be used as resume highlights might include:

Coaching sports
Conducting private music lessons
Tutoring
Volunteering at community related events or for community organizations

Step 1

Log in using your WWU Universal Login

https://success.wwu.edu/portal/field_experience_log

Note to Secondary students--you will not use the new log, continue using the log via Web4U.

Step 2

Click on “Create New”

Double check that you’ve selected the correct term and course

screenshot of hours log landing page with an arrow pointing to the Create New link

Step 3

Confirm that you are in the correct term and course before proceeding
Select the date that you wish to record on the calendar
Enter hours earned in the “Teaching” box
Click submit

Screenshot of hours log hours entry page highlighting term, course, date, hours entry box and submit button

Step 4

A confirmation page will appear. You can wait for an automatic redirect or click on the link to be redirected to the start page immediately.

Screenshot of hours log confirmation page

Step 5

Confirm your entry in the “Recent Log Entries” table.

You may like to check your hours to see how many you have total or to look for errors. There are several ways to accomplish this!

Option 1

To do a simple check of your hours, you can refer to the Recent Course Totals table on the start page

Screenshot of hours log course totals chart with total hours cell highlighted

Option 2

To get a report for a specific course or for all of your courses together, you can generate a report.

Click the View Hours Report Button

screenshot of log view hours report button

Use the drop down menu to select the course you want to run the report for. If you wish to save as a PDF to send to your supervisor, click the PDF button.

Option 3

Click on the download all log entries to generate an Excel document.

Screenshot of hours log Download all log entries button

The spreadsheet will contain all terms, courses, entries and categories. You can use the Excel features of filtering, sorting or deleting rows to narrow down the information contained in the spreadsheet.

Errors are bound to happen and you can always fix them by using the directions in the "Edit or Delete an Entry" section below!

Here's how to confirm that your log is:

Recorded in the correct term and course
Free from duplicate entries

Review the Recent Log Entries table. You can see dates and terms here. Notice this example shows hours recorded twice on 3/4/26. This is an example of an error that must be corrected (see section below to learn how to edit or delete an entry)!

screenshot of hours log with a box around duplicate entries