SPED 391 - Student Teaching - Special Education: Mild Disabilities

Credit(s): 7.5
Lecture: 7.5
Non-Lecture: 0
Full-time student teaching at the primary or intermediate level in an affiliated educational program serving students with mild or moderate disabilities. Designed to provide the student with the opportunity to develop and refine skills and understandings of the teaching-learning process for children with disabilities. A member of the college faculty, working cooperatively with the teaching and administrative staff of the setting, assists, observes, supervises, and evaluates each student. Students become involved in periodic seminars focusing upon pedagogical content and methodology, assessment of student learning, parent communication, development of a professional portfolio, and topics related to broad concerns of professionals in education. (To repeat this course requires the permission of, and fulfilling conditions set by, the Coordinator of Student Teaching.)

Prerequisite(s): SPED 382, SPED 383, SPED 385 and EDUC 354; minimum GPA of 2.75.