Professional Clinical Experience II

Catalog description

This course is a continuation of secondary certification students clinical field experience. This competency-based course will focus on the knowledge, skills, abilities and dispositions teachers need to teach middle and/or high school pupils. This experience will provide evidence-based research, and clinical opportunities that will be implemented, analyzed, evaluated and refined during the 16 weeks of clinical experience. This iterative process facilitates the development of skills that promote the learning of adolescents, in the following: (a) Student development; (b) Learning differences; (c) Learning environment; (d) Content knowledge; (d) Assessment; (e) Planning and learning facilitation; and (f) Reflection and continuous growth. With the support of the college faculty and the public school clinical practitioners, the teacher candidate will actively engage in on-going self-assessment, focusing on the refinement of instructing students, supporting student learning and linking pupils’ learning progress to the knowledge, skills, abilities and dispositions of the teacher candidate. Importantly, candidates will demonstrate and continue to develop their certification specific content knowledge.