Elementary Internship II (Grades 3-5).

Catalog description

Semester course; 4 field experience hours. 4 credits. Prerequisites: TEDU 417 , TEDU 422 , TEDU 466 and TEDU 496 . Corequisites: TEDU 472 and TEDU 481 . This internship serves as the teacher candidate’s culminating clinical experience. It provides students with an opportunity to demonstrate what they have learned during their professional academic preparation. In addition it serves as an opportunity for public school and VCU personnel to evaluate and strengthen teacher candidates’ application of theory to practice in an elementary classroom. Teacher candidates complete a full-time seven-to-eight-week placement in a 3rd through 5th grade classroom. For this internship there is sometimes an option to be placed in a sixth grade classroom as well.