Clinical Experience I, Birth-Grade 2

Catalog description

For the field experience component of this course, students complete 50 hours of observations in general education at the birth-pre-K, kindergarten, or grade 1-2 level. Students also complete 100 hours of work with students with disabilities at a level not used in general education. (Inclusion classes with strong special education components are acceptable.) For the practicum component of the course, students complete an additional 20 days or 100 hours in general education at one of the three age/grade levels. (Please note that over the course of their field experience and practicum courses students must work with children in at least two levels.) Actual teaching is a component of the practicum part of this course. All student teaching is done in accredited schools with the involvement of appropriately certified supervising or cooperating teachers who submit student evaluation forms during and at the conclusion of the semester. Over the course of the field experience and practicum courses, some work is done in a high-need school or a school serving a high-need community. Students keep time sheets of their hours, maintain logs in which critical incidents are recorded and analyzed, respond to questions about young children, analyze lesson presentations of cooperating teachers observed, and complete two term papers. Students integrate evidence- based methods of instruction into their lesson presentations. Students also do an assignment on how they assessed student learning for a lesson they have presented that is observed by an assigned faculty member. The course includes scheduled group meetings. The assigned faculty member meets with students at their field experience/practicum sites and observes and evaluates student work with children in a school or an equivalent educational setting. The faculty member and cooperating teacher evaluate both the field experience and…