Internship/Externship in Professional Teaching.

Catalog description

Semester course; 3 practicum hours (delivered online). 3 credits. Prerequisite: EDUS 640 . Enrollment is restricted to graduate or professional students, with permission of the office of the Certificate in Preparing Future Faculty. The course is the capstone experience of the preparing future faculty program in which students will gain experience and practice in clinical/field or studio instruction under the tutelage of a senior faculty mentor at an institution that most likely mirrors the institution of interest to the student. A proposal agreement must be signed by the faculty mentor who will direct the project and assign the final grade and must be submitted to the PFF program coordinator for approval before the student enrolls or begins the internship/externship. The proposal must define the project and the intended outcomes, must specify the learning goals and the agreed-upon methods for evaluation, and must identify the institution where the project will take place. At the end of the project, the student must submit to the faculty mentor a report describing the experience and the extent to which the stated goals were accomplished. The faculty mentor will submit the student report, along with an evaluation of the project and the grade to be awarded, to the PFF program coordinator. The course requires approximately 150 contact hours in the form of preparing and completing the project. The student's role is to be comparable to a “junior faculty member” and the faculty member serves as guide and mentor. Graded as pass/fail.