Clinical Experience II

Catalog description

This competency-based course will focus on the knowledge, skills, abilities and dispositions teachers need to teach elementary/middle/high school students with disabilities from age 5 up to age 21. This clinical 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 promotes the learning of all students, especially students with disabilities, 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 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 K-12 learning progress to the knowledge, skills, abilities and dispositions of the teacher candidate.