Practicum with a Focus on Learners and Learning

Catalog description

This field experience, taken in the fall of junior year, provides candidates with a classroom of students and a mentor teacher with whom to practice building relationships with learners and conduct extensive observations of learners and learning, as well as practice the teaching of content related to their concurrent methods courses (either language arts, mathematics and science OR language arts, mathematics and social studies) with small groups of students. Accompanying monthly seminars will focus on reflecting on themes and experiences in the field and making content connections to methods courses.