EDUC 413 Student Teaching and Seminar: Elementary
EDUC 411, 412, and 413, taken concurrently, involve student teaching, conducting action research in the classroom, and completing an electronic portfolio. The student teaching experience (411 and 412) consists of a full-day, fourteen-week semester spent in an elementary school through which the candidate gains teaching knowledge and experience. For 411, candidates observe and assume limited teaching responsibility for 10 weeks. For 412, candidates assume full responsibility for a minimum of four weeks of the semester. Student teaching seminar (413) involves attending a weekly seminar and completing an action research project as well as an electronic portfolio designed to meet professional and departmental standards. Only one other course may be taken with the student teaching experience. Prerequisites: Successful completion of program requirements; permission of Director of Teacher Education; senior or graduate status.