The evaluation and use of technological and visual aids pertaining to mathematics are considered. This is the final and most extensive clinical experience. Students are assigned to a supervising teacher or teaching team at one of our clinical sites. The students spend full time in classroom teaching for a semester of fifteen weeks. A university supervisor observes periodically and a weekly practicum brings student teachers together to discuss common problems and concerns and those aspects of school law pertinent for classroom teachers.
Student teaching is scheduled during either the fall or spring terms of the senior year.
Intended to help the prospective teachers of the Secondary Education academic subject areas develop an understanding and appreciation of the reading skills needed by their students. Methods of establishing awareness of general reading needs as well as the special skills unique to their subject areas are stressed. The course covers the theory and practice of teaching modern languages. Instruction in the use of the laboratory is given. Emphasis is given to the student developing an adequate understanding of the needs, interests, learning characteristics and motivations of students at various ages of development, K through 12.