Field Education challenges students to integrate academic experience with the actual practice of ministry. Each BTI School offers a variety of settings in the church and the wider community for students to serve others while at the same time receiving support and supervision. Drawing upon the disciplines of theological reflection, students clarify their vision of ministry, form their theology and identity, and develop skills in the ministerial arts.

Each BTI School has particular programmatic requirements. Organizations, parochial or non-parochial, may be affiliated with only one school. The BTI Directors have established procedures by which students may seek permission to “borrow” a Field Education site from another school. The student uses the forms and follows the deadlines of the school with which the site is affiliated.

Concurrent field education projects in the BTI provide additional opportunities for students in member schools to learn and serve together. These supervised settings meet the criteria established by the BTI Standing Committee on Field Education. The minimum BTI Field Education project requirement which is twelve-hours a week includes the accomplishing of agreed upon tasks, preparation of papers and reports, and individual and group supervisory sessions. Credit seminars offered in relation to some projects are in addition to the twelve-hour per week commitment.

A student registering for a BTI Field Education Project must meet the requirements of the project as stipulated by the administering school.