Culminating Teaching Experience and Seminar

Catalog description

This course is the culminating experience in the plan of study toward NH teacher certification. This course gives teacher candidates an opportunity to be mentored in their field of certification by experienced teachers holding graduate degrees and to practice the variety of methods and strategies studied in the teacher preparation program. Teacher candidates enrolled in this course may be at different stages of acquiring the three hundred sixty to four hundred forty hours of supervised teaching experience. Additionally, teacher candidates will use the Teacher Candidate Assessment of Performance process to develop a final culminating document that demonstrates their proficiency in the areas of contextualization, planning and preparation, instruction, academic language, assessment, and reflection.