EDUC 491 - Student Teaching - Childhood

2024-2025 Catalog Year

Credit(s): 7.5
Lecture: 7.5
Non-Lecture: 0

Full-time student teaching for grades 1-3 in an affiliated school. Designed to provide the student with the opportunity to develop and refine skills and understandings of the teaching-learning process with primary-level children. A member of the college faculty, working cooperatively with the teaching and administrative staff of the school, 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 Director of Student Teaching.)

Prerequisite(s): CURR 317, ECED 353, and ECED 354 for Early Childhood Education; CURR 317, SPED 319, ECED 326, and ECED 354 for Childhood Education; SPED 382, SPED 383, SPED 385, and for Childhood Education with Special Education; minimum GPA of 2.75.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): SPED 491 (for SPED students only)
Restricted to: Special Education with Childhood or Early Childhood with Childhood

Class Restriction: Senior
Repeatable: May be taken twice for credit