This graduate-level course will include a laboratory component with micro teaching experiences and will be taken in the summer preceeding the senior year. Curricular planning and instruction with an emphasis on instructional techniques and strategies for the particular discipline of certification. The graduate-level course integrates and emphasizes content knowledge, pedagogical content knowledge, and curricular knowledge. Students enroll in the course that corresponds to the area in which they seek certification and take the course in the summer term preceding their senior year. Classroom teaching in a nearby secondary school under the supervision of a secondary school mentor and a college supervisor.
Students teach during the fall term of their senior year.
This seminar addresses the New York State mandated requirements related to child abuse and the special needs population in schools. It is designed to compliment and extend previous coursework in educational and instructional theory and relate these theories and models to the on-going classroom experience during the student teaching term. Grades 7-12 Certification To be considered for a recommendation for certification, students must submit a final portfolio that describes how they have met each of the criteria listed below. Those who complete the two-term Masters Research and Thesis also complete one additional course in their core area. To be eligible for graduate study, students must meet the criteria outlined for the M.A.T. degree.