Teaching Internship

Catalog description

Designed for dance education majors pursuing K-12 certification. Students complete a minimum of 25 internship hours in a secondary education classroom setting and are mentored by a high school dance teacher. The internship experience involves observing and assisting the mentor teacher in instructional activities, planning and teaching dance movement and creative practice lessons, choreographing a dance concert work at the internship site, and engaging in self-evaluation processes. Mentor teachers provide ongoing feedback to students in the course and complete two formal assessments. Creative work generated from the internship course is entered into a digital portfolio and shared with course peers and instructors at the end of the semester.