There are presentations and semesters for teacher education students. None at present. We are a community college with an Elementary Education Option under Liberal Arts in which we advise students on choice of courses depending upon which four-year school they plan to attend. Entire education faculty teach in the public schools of greater Boston. Students visit school levels first semester, observe, write and evaluate what they observed.
Faculty corrects each written assignment and discusses with student.
School to work, although a component is not the focus of the preparation. At the associate degree level, this emphasis is somewhat premature, given the need to develop strong basic academic skills and classroom presentation techniques in our non-traditional student population. Focus on this area is through Career Development Office. Education students have completed internships in this area. Most of our teacher candidates are in the early child, middle, elementary or special ed fields.