Field Experience (B.Ed.) & Internship (MATL) Dates & Contacts

On this page:

• Placement Coordinators' Information
• Placement Dates (General) 
  • 2025-26 Academic year: Fall 2025, Winter 2026
  • 2024-25 Academic Year:  Spring 2025

 

Placement Coordinators

Placement Coordinators are responsible for specific programs/cohorts (subject to change during the year) but are all available to help students from all programs, if need be.

Dates, Course Codes and Schedules

TAKE NOTE

• Placement dates are not fixed and may be subject to change without notice.
• Students must be available (i.e. in Montreal/Quebec) and ready to attend their host school as of the first day of their Field Experience/Internship.
  • Students should take these dates into consideration when planning vacations, booking flights, accepting job offers, etc. and be sure to be in Montreal in time for the first day
• Student Teachers are strongly advised not to engage in activities (e.g. employment, courses) that could interfere with the time and energy required to prepare lessons and effectively teach during their placements. Course conflicts with a field placement will not be grounds for an excused absence from the field.
• Student Teachers are also advised not to make plans to leave the city for 1 week (minimum) immediately after your placement - you may be required to make up days due to illness, other excused absences, or school closure.  See Policies: Absence from Field Experience. Additionally, attendance at co-requisite courses is often mandatory and these courses may start or end after the Field Experience/Internship. Students with unexcused absences may be removed from the field.
• Course registration opening dates and deadlines may follow a specific calendar to be communicated to students by email, and, unless otherwise noted, withdrawal deadlines are: add/drop - 2 weeks before placement; withdrawal with refund - first day of placement; withdrawal without refund - fourth day of placement.
• For questions about placement dates or placement organization, please do not hesitate to contact your Placement Coordinator.
• For questions about when to register for a specific Field Experience/Internship, please contact your Academic Advisor (B.Ed. undergraduate students) or matl.education [at] mcgill.ca (MATL Program Coordinator) (MATL graduate students).
• Withdrawal deadlines are available here.

Field Experience and Internships are to be completed in the following terms (unless done off-cycle, with permission from ISA):

• FE1
  • K/Elem: Fall
  • Secondary
    • English, Social Sciences (Math, Science - Advanced Standing Only): Fall
    • Math, Science (4-Year Program): Summer
  • TESL: Fall
  • Music: Summer
  • Phys Ed: Summer
• FE2
  • Summer (all programs)
• FE3
  • Fall (all programs)
• FE4
  • Winter (all programs)
• IN1
  • Winter
• IN2
  • Fall

2025-2026 Academic Year

TAKE NOTE: These dates are not fixed and may be subject to change! 
 

Fall 2025

SPECIAL REGISTRATION INSTRUCTIONS FOR FE3 and IN2 (FALL 2025)

• See below the list of CRNs organized by placement and program. Take note of the required CRNs.
• Log in to Minerva > Student Menu > Registration Menu > Quick Add or Drop Course Sections > Select a Term: Fall 2025.
• Use the ‘Quick Add/Drop Menu’ in Minerva and enter the CRN for your Field Experience / Internship.
  • This special registration period is ONLY to register for your Field Experience / Internship.
  • You will register for any co-requisite/additional courses starting in June, when standard course registration opens in Minerva
• If you encounter any registration errors, please email isa.education [at] mcgill.ca (subject: Registration%20Issue%20, body: Hello%20!%0A%0AMy%20name%20is%20...%20and%20my%20student%20ID%20is...%0AI'm%20having%20trouble%20with%20...)

Winter 2026

2024-2025 Academic Year

Spring 2025:

First Field Experience (FE1) | Second Field Experience (FE2)

SPECIAL REGISTRATION INSTRUCTIONS FOR FE1 & FE2 IN SPRING 2025

• See below the list of CRNs organized by placement and program. Take note of the required CRNs.
• Log in to Minerva > Student Menu > Registration Menu > Quick Add or Drop Course Sections > Select a Term: Summer 2025.
• Use the ‘Quick Add/Drop Menu’ in Minerva and enter the CRNs for BOTH your Field Experience and your Professional Seminar sections simultaneously (if you need to register for both).
  • Phys. Ed. students need only register for their Field Experience, since there is no concurrent Professional Seminar.
• If you are doing BOTH FE1 and FE2 in Spring 2025: Make sure to register for FE1 first and then separately register for FE2!

First Field Experience (FE1)

• Minerva Registration Opens: 2025-01-06

• Minerva Registration Deadline: 2025-01-17

  • Late registration, if approved, will have an administrative fee of $50.00 charged to your Student Account in Minerva

• Web Withdrawal WITH Refund Deadline: 2025-03-21

• Web Withdrawal WITHOUT refund deadline: 2025-04-22

FE1 ORIENTATION WILL BE APRIL 7TH AT 9H30AM - CHECK YOUR EMAILS FOR MORE DETAILS!

MUSIC

PHYS ED

SECONDARY

 

SPECIAL REGISTRATION INSTRUCTIONS FOR FE1 & FE2 IN SPRING 2025

• See below the list of CRNs organized by placement and program. Take note of the required CRNs.
• Log in to Minerva > Student Menu > Registration Menu > Quick Add or Drop Course Sections > Select a Term: Summer 2025.
• Use the ‘Quick Add/Drop Menu’ in Minerva and enter the CRNs for BOTH your Field Experience and your Professional Seminar sections simultaneously (you will not be able to register for one at a time and will receive an error message saying, ‘Pre-requisite/Test Score Error’).
  • Phys. Ed. students need only register for their Field Experience, since there is no concurrent Professional Seminar.
• If you are doing BOTH FE1 and FE2 in Spring 2025: Make sure to register for FE1 first and then separately register for FE2!

Second Field Experience (FE2)

• Minerva Registration Opens: 2025-01-06

• Minerva Registration Deadline: 2025-01-17

  • Late registration, if approved, will have an administrative fee of $50.00 charged to your Student Account in Minerva

• Web Withdrawal WITH Refund Deadline: 2025-03-21

• Web Withdrawal WITHOUT refund deadline: 2025-04-22

FE2 ORIENTATION WILL BE APRIL 11TH AT 9H30AM - CHECK YOUR EMAILS FOR MORE DETAILS!

K/ELEM

MUSIC

PHYS. ED.

SECONDARY

TESL

*Please note that for students whose FE1 was cut short by the teacher strikes in Fall 2023, your FE2 will be extended by 1 week and end on May 30th.