This course is designed to provide a culminating experience for the professional educator.
Students have the opportunity for practical, field-based experience.
The student will be under the direction of qualified teachers who are certified in Special Education - Emotionally Disturbed, and who have had a minimum of three years experience teaching the emotionally disturbed. A member of the Radford University graduate faculty, Special Education, will provide overall supervision of the practicum experience. Maintain classroom order using a positive, consistent approach including techniques such as cueing, reinforcement of appropriate behavior, planned ignoring and timeout. Demonstrate the ability to communicate information and expectations to students. Demonstrate the ability to plan, implement, and interpret informal assessments for the purpose of developing pupil objectives and planning instructions.