Most education students don't enter the classroom until senior year when they began student teaching.

But UK students are getting a head start with what's called the embed program.

The program allows students to learn concepts in class on Monday and then apply those lessons in elementary classrooms on Wednesday.

We spoke to faculty, students and graduates about a program that teaches that teachers.

Are program is a professional sequence of three semesters with pre practicum, practicum and then student teaching.

Everyone in the program, regardless of whether they're in an embed placement or not.

They'll be in the classroom for five weeks full time doing the full time practicum.

Traditionally, we would teach on campus for the first half of the semester and then they would leave and go out into the field for five weeks.

But we wanted to build up to that by teaching on campus on Monday, having them go into an embed placement that very next Wednesday to teach what we were doing in class before getting to that five week placement.

So they just gain a lot more confidence and everything before they start the placement full time.

Your new work is a little later.

Being in college, you don't often get that experience of being in the classroom and working with kids.

The embed program is great, able to get them the experience that they need as well as the exposure with the faculty and staff at a local elementary school.

I found the program very helpful and I was able to get that one on one experience with students as well as watch and work with my mentor teacher and see exactly really how she teaches and then use the strategies that I was learning for my professors at the University of Kentucky in order to effectively meet my students needs.

It's just like a perfect way to connect theory and practice.

Everything we're teaching on campus.

They're immediately getting to apply it.

I get instruction from Ms.. Rawls.

Basically, I follow her footsteps, and then also during the embed, I'm still going to school, so able to get critiques from my professors and I'm able to gain more knowledge by being in school and also being hands on with the students.

It's probably the best experience I've had so far with being in the education program.

And how do you find it?

I want to be a teacher because of my teachers In the past.

I grew up less fortunate than many people, and my teachers always made sure that I was okay.

Be in the classroom, hands on.

This is everything that I. Imagined to get that experience before graduating and stepping into your classroom for the first time.

I think it's definitely important.

Without getting that experience, I think you can step into a position not really knowing what's expected of.

You with the impact.

They're getting so much face time with students and they're immersed so quickly with these models.

They quickly figure out, is this what I really want to do?

And so they they get into that career and they're confident and they feel prepared.

Schools participating in the program this year include Veterans Park, Pick a Dome and Breckenridge Elementary.