Field Experience in Education

Catalog description

This course is designed to be an introduction to the teaching profession through an intensive internship experience, with a lecture/discussion component. It includes both theoretical and practical aspects of learning and teaching. Students will have an opportunity to assess their own interest in teaching as a career, gain an overview of issues that affect teachers from preschool through high school, and have the opportunity to interrogate their prior beliefs and assumptions about education. This course fulfills the Cascadia Integrated Learning requirement, based on a substantial community based learning component. Prerequisite(s): None.