Candidates develop a literacy case study . TEP 512 Student Teaching with Professional Seminar 6 units Candidates engage in on-site daily student teaching under the supervision of a Master Teacher and a University Supervisor. The required weekly seminar integrates each week's teaching experience with theory and methods studied in the Program. Culturally-responsive instruction and teaching with mutual respect and care are reviewed and discussed in the context of candidates' teaching experiences. Candidates' problems and questions are explored with peers and instructor in a supportive, problem-solving context.
Candidates learn legal and professional requirements and expectations.
3 units Candidates expand their foundational learning from TEP 520 by deepening and broadening their abilities to plan and deliver a comprehensive, integrated, interdisciplinary, and methodologically-grounded language arts program that supports access to the core language arts curriculum for all students. Candidate competency is expanded to include more integrated instructional approaches to promoting fluency through reading, writing, spelling, oral language, vocabulary development, and the use of various genres of literature and expository texts that reflect cultural diversity for all elementary grades. Candidates design instruction informed by students' development and language usage. In this intensive workshop, candidates further examine the role of teaching in civic education and study methods that promote students' ethical knowledge and development. Methods of facilitating students' identities as citizens of the class, the school, the community, and the society and the world is the focus.