Students observe the teacher and participate in teaching as appropriate.
The student writes a final report relating classroom experience to developing the full potential of K-12 students. This course provides an introduction to the structure and functioning of American education today. Topics covered include the history of American education, national, state, and local influences on education, legal parameters of education, school finance, careers in education, and directions in educational reform. This course studies the implications of theories of human development and learning for education. The first part of the course looks at theories of both cognitive and affective development and deals with topics such as influences on development, endpoints of development, and the nature of intelligence.