Early Childhood/Special Education Field Experience II including Portfolio Development

Catalog description

This course is a pass/fail field/seminar experience for Early Childhood Special Education candidates. A University supervisor visits the classrooms of the candidates to observe and to assist in putting theory into practice. In the seminars, the attributes of a reflective practitioner are discussed and practiced by utilizing real experiences in urban child care and/or educational settings where knowlede of child development can be observed and applied to early childhood special education program practices. Emphasis will be placed on the dimensions of modification and reframing of knowledge, along with the utilization of knowledge applied to the delivery of developmentally appropriate practice to children and their families.