Course namePracticum in the School for the students with Disabilities

Course Number

CE29043

Credits

3.0Year

3Term, Weekday and Period

Summer, Intensive

Instructor

Atsuko SATO, Hiroki YONEDA, Michio KOJIMA, Hideyuki KOBAYASHI, Takao ANDO

Course overview

The course will provide a 3-week training at a special needs school, in order to obtain the knowledge, skills,and attitudes necessary to teach children with disabilities.

Remarks

Then enrolling students should fulfill the course requirements for training. The course is available only forsenior students except those belong to the College of Disability Sciences. Details will be informed later.

Teaching method

Training, experiments and skill

Attainment target

Students will obtain the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to teach children with disabilities.

Teaching schedule

1. Pre-training guidance:
The objective, consideration, and paperwork about the training will be informed at the university.
The schedule will be posted later. The students who did not attend the pre-training guidance are not allowed
to take this course.
2. Orientation at each training schoolStudents will receive the orientation before the training at each university-affiliated school.
Students will visit and observe classes at kindergarten, elementary course, junior high course, senior highcourse, and dormitory of each school.
The students who did not attend this orientation are not allowed to take this course.
3. Training of teaching will be conducted during September and October.
The training consists of 3-week class observation, participation, and training. Students will perform thetraining of teaching (including research class and lesson workshop) under the supervision of guiding teachers,in addition to the participation into various school events, extracurricular activities, and guidance atdormitory.
4. Post-training guidance:
Reporting and reviewing session will be held after the training of teaching.

Course conditions

The enrolling students should fulfill the following minimum requirements before taking this course.
1. Students have already obtained two credits of the courses regarding basic theories of special needs
education (including the applicants with expected completion by the time of starting training).
2. Students have already obtained two credits of the courses regarding psychology, physiology and pathology
and two credits of the courses regarding curriculum and teaching methods from at least one of four areas of
special needs education, such as visual impairment, hearing impairment, physical disorder, and intellectual
disability (including the applicants with the expected completion by the time of starting training). It should be
noted that the courses regarding psychology, physiology and pathology, and the courses regarding
curriculum and teaching methods will not be included in the above four credits.
3. Students will conduct the teaching practice at a special needs school mainly for children with disabilities ofwhich the students obtained the course credits in the above mentioned paragraph 2.

Evaluation

Comprehensive evaluation based on the results of attendance record to training and orientation attitude andefforts in the classroom and extracurricular activities in the training period, teaching capability (including theevaluation of the research lesson), and the contents of training notebook.

Homework
Text Book
Reference
Office hours

Atsuko Sato: akkos at human.tsukuba.ac.jp
Hiroki Yoneda: Friday 11:30-12:30, hyoneda at human.tsukuba.ac.jp
Michio Kojima: mkojima at human.tsukuba.ac.jp
Hideyuki Kobayashi: Friday 9:00-10:00 hidekoba at human.tsukuba.ac.jp
Takao Ando: andou at human.tsukuba.ac.jp

Expectation for student
Keywords

The details will be posted later and students are requested to check the same.