Students will be able to bring students from diverse groups to high levels of learning. Clinical and field-based experiences focuses on opportunities for our students to reflect celebrate, and offer perspective on the way schools will work. Students complete a period during which exposure to theory and practical application has occurred. These experiences sharpen and expand already acquired competencies. Students are afforded opportunities to develop new skills, and polish professional skills already acquired.
Students are then prepared to try their wings as they nurture learning in children of the future.
The following senior year experiences are required of all baccalaureate teacher education students. All students are required to spend one week in a public school to observe the opening, organization and beginning of the school year. Students should apply for and then complete this non-paid volunteer experience as a staff member in a public school in the month of August that immediately precedes the student teaching experience. Service for one year as teacher's aide or in some other full-time instructional capacity may be considered as a substitute for the beginning school experience. Student Teaching Student teaching gives the teacher education student the opportunity to get real classroom experience.