Own transportation necessary. Students spend a full day each week in a classroom, plus a weekly seminar for sharing information. This course provides undergraduate students with the opportunity to create, implement, and evaluate Spanish lessons and activities for students and teachers in a public school setting. This course helps prospective early childhood teachers explore what it means to teach, and examines their assumptions about the teaching-learning process, and helps them formulate their own beliefs about educational practice based on how young children think and learn. It includes discussion of curriculum and pedagogical issues and a group experience of constructing their own knowledge.
Students work with supervisors on knowledge, skills, and attitudes in the teaching process.
Students will learn from each other's experiences, discuss relevant issues, and constructively address intergroup conflicts through small group activities. Students will examine narratives, historical and sociological materials which address each group's experience within a US context, and learn about pertinent issues facing the participating groups on campus and in society. See Section 1 description. See Section 1 description. See Section 1 description.