This practicum is designed to immerse students in the elementary school classroom. Opportunities for teacher candidates to inquire, analyze and reflect on classroom routines and practices.
(GAPP-Appl for Grad Lic Adm to PTEP: with minimum score of 9 or EDFE 125)
A review and analysis of competing conceptualizations of the elementary-school curriculum. Teachers develop, implement, and evaluate curriculum in elementary classrooms. Current topics, trends and issues in curriculum are explored.
Theory, design, development, implementation and evaluation of integrated curriculum. Students develop interdisciplinary units of study and learn active learning strategies and techniques consistent with an effective rationale for integrated curriculum.
Consider in detail the problems concerned with selection of what to teach, grade placement of content, methods and materials for teaching and means of evaluating achievement in mathematics.
Individualized investigation under the direct supervision of a faculty member. (Minimum of 37.5 clock hours required per credit hour.)
Teachers develop their abilities as readers, writers and thinkers as they examine current research and practice in language arts and literacy instruction.