Early Childhood Practicum Field Experience -- Preschool

Catalog description

This course is a supervised practicum to provide teacher candidates more extensive clinical experience working with early childhood children 3-5 years of age. Candidates plan and implement lesson plan units for individual children and small groups which allow for individual differences and special needs, language and cultural diversity, and which incorporate varying levels of complexity to include all students. Settings may include Early Childhood Special Education classrooms, blended ECS classrooms, and daycare or nursery school settings which include children with special needs. Continued interaction and support for families is stressed. This course requires the clinical component to be a minimum of 50 hours. A complete schedule of clinic/lab experiences will be distributed in class.