Practicum in Science SCED 8003 1-6 cr. The practicum provides student teaching experience in area schools and in the college campus school, designed to meet the state requirements for teacher certification. The emphasis of the course is upon developing a working philosophy of science teaching for the master teacher. Students examine of the nature of science teaching in the context of modern learning theory and the impact these considerations have upon modern science teaching. Each student develops a model science curriculum based on psychological and pedagogical principles.
Students undertake research designed to explore some phase of science teaching in detail.
An element of experimentation must be included in the project. The final product is a written documentation of the research and results. The purpose of this course is to communicate the process of ethical reasoning. Students gain a better understanding of how cooperation between people concerned with the human application of science and the makers of public policy must become a working hypothesis. Students undertake research in a specific field of science that involves an in-depth exploration of a well defined problem.