In this course, students will demonstrate their abilities to plan and execute lessons in grades 1-3 in social studies, science, reading, language arts, mathematics, health, and fine arts. They will demonstrate the use of technology in teaching and learning episodes. Students will practice in inclusive clinical settings reflecting culturally and linguistically diverse family systems for a minimum of 100 clock hours. The pedagogical approach embodies a sociolinguistic as well as psycholinguistic perspective. Essential skills, strategies, story grammar and story schema are presented within context.
Literature is selected from all genres and includes parallel cultures.
It is a full semester with a full school day supervised experience in selected area schools. Students will work with master teachers who will assist in assessing student's progress as they practice teaching on early childhood levels. Students will demonstrate their proficiency in teaching with at least two different age groups and with students of varying abilities. Students will experience working with interdisciplinary, interagency and intra-agency teams of professionals. For this experience students will produce lesson plans, portfolios, and other projects as assigned by the instructor.