Reading Practicum

Catalog description

This course is the supervised Reading Practicum where students build upon Reading Competencies 1 through 4 and show mastery during their clinical field internship of Reading Competency 5. This course is a corequisite of the clinical field internship. The teacher candidates will demonstrate knowledge of the varying components of reading, assessment, and data analysis. The teacher candidates will produce a comprehensive research-based portfolio encompassing instruction for all students. This course fulfills Reading Competency 5: Demonstration of Accomplishment. This course requires a total of 30-hours of practicum experience (average of 3-hours per week) in a classroom setting to be completed as a corequisite to the students final Early Childhood field internship course.