After surveying various options, students work toward developing a personal management system and design and implement a behavior modification program for children in their practicum classrooms. No academic credit. This seminar accompanies student teaching in the secondary schools for students seeking certification in adolescence education. It provides a structure within which students critically examine their classroom experiences of teaching, learning, and curriculum development, with the goal of becoming reflective practitioners. Texts and readings focus on an analysis of the experience of secondary school education, as well as those that provide rationales for the methods and purposes of the academic disciplines.
Student teachers critique secondary education in terms of adolescents in school settings.
The focus is on developing and refining learning strategies appropriate for adolescents and that include reading and writing within their disciplines. The seminar requires that students reflect on human development, learning processes, children with special needs, curriculum development and adaptation, classroom management, uses of technology, rights and responsibilities of students and teachers, the governance of public schools, and life-long learning strategies. This course involves supervised observation and teaching of an academic subject in a secondary school. Students spend the entire day at a secondary school for the complete semester. EDUC 402-403 must be taken on a credit basis.