Elementary Student Teaching: Immersion in a Community of Practice

Catalog description

This course offers a stimulating semester-long experience in an elementary school classroom within a local priority school district. Under the guidance of university supervision and intensive mentoring by cooperating teachers, participants quickly assume full teaching responsibilities, including curriculum and lesson planning anchored in the principles of multicultural education and social responsibility, differentiated instruction, and effective organization and management, while carrying out other faculty duties, including participation in school governance and professional development. As educators for social justice and social responsibility, they engage in related school and community-based activities with students, families, and community members. Participants must register with the director of student teaching placement at the beginning of the previous semester. Enrollment requires performance-based assessment including, but not limited to, successful completion of all prerequisite certification track courses and requirements while a matriculated candidate in the Elementary Education MA program, permission of the elementary education program director, and an interview with the director of student teaching placements. Restrictions: Curriculum and Instruction Majors ONLY.