Supervised Practicum Choice of Elementary Middle or High School

Catalog description

The student teaching semester is a comprehensive program for the professional development of teacher candidates. This experience provides opportunities for teacher candidates to test methods and theories of teaching, to develop effective strategies for teaching and learning, to identify teaching strengths and weaknesses, and to develop a personal teaching style. Teacher candidates bring with them an understanding of content, classroom management and teaching strategies from previous coursework and fieldwork. Their success will depend on their abilities to reflect on these professional courses and apply educational principles and techniques within the classroom settings. Under the direction of a certified teacher and a university supervisor certified in the teacher candidate’s content area, the teacher candidates will initially observe, and then gradually assume responsibility for all classroom activities for a minimum of two weeks.