Students take on all responsibilities normally accepted by elementary teachers. These include supervision of children, curriculum planning and evaluation, reporting to parents, direction of paraprofessionals and classroom assistants, participation in professional conferences or in-service training sessions, and budgeting. EDUC 405-406 is open to seniors who participate in the elementary teacher certification program. Readings in this course are selected to meet the needs of individual students. This practicum is open to seniors who have completed all other requirements of the department's program in special education.
Participants carry out full-time student teaching with children who have special needs.
This practicum is taken in tandem with EDUC 405. This course focuses on ethical and moral issues central to the process of education and the experience of schooling. Participants are expected to develop a position paper in which a point of view pertaining to a specific issue is articulated.