Student Teaching in Inclusive Early Childhood Education Classrooms

Catalog description

This course focuses on the applied practice of purposeful planning and intentional teaching of all children in an early childhood education classroom through an intensive, full-time experience and accompanying seminar. Under the mentorship of a master teacher, candidates will evolve in their practices toward independent planning, differentiation, and implementation of classroom activities and scheduling that provide individualized and developmentally appropriate learning opportunities for all children, with attention to the cultural, linguistic, and ability diversity in the classroom. This course applies theory, research, and recommended practices into a professional apprenticeship experience. Specific areas of development include collaboration, assessment, planning and implementation of individual, small and large group learning experiences, and scheduling and environmental arrangement. Candidates will develop a capstone project over the year of student teaching in this course as well as the Student Teaching in the Primary Years course.