Field Experience I in Early Childhood Education: Grades K-3

Catalog description

This course is the first field experience in a school environment. Teacher candidates are introduced to best practices around diversity and inclusive classrooms, professionalism, classroom management, and social justice. Teacher candidates develop and teach lessons as well as build and maintain the classroom environment. This class includes a one-hour/once-a-week seminar and a multi-day field experience. The field experience placement and attendance schedule is established by the course instructor in consultation with the teacher candidate and cooperating teacher. Prerequisite: ECE 335 , ECE 413 , ECE 418 ; taken concurrently with ECE 421 and ECE 422 ; admission to teacher education. Consent of department. Offered Fall, Spring.