Advanced STEM Clinical

Catalog description

This clinical, competency-based course will focus on the knowledge, skills, abilities and dispositions teachers need to teach Grades 6-12 during the SNHU Summer Experience. This clinical experience will provide evidence-based research, and clinical opportunities that will be implemented, analyzed, evaluated and refined during the 6 weeks of clinical experience. This iterative process facilitates the development of skills that promotes the learning of all students in the following: (a) Student development; (b) Learning differences; (c) Learning environment; (d) Content knowledge; (d) Assessment; (e) Planning and learning facilitation; (f) Reflection and continuous growth; (g) Academic Language. With the support of the college faculty and the cooperating practitioners, the teacher candidate will actively engage in on-going self-assessment, focusing on the refinement of instructing students, supporting student learning and linking the 6-12 learning progress to the knowledge, skills, abilities and dispositions of the teacher candidate.