EDUC 2100 - Practicum in Teaching

EDFD 2020 Foundations of Education, EDFD 2100 Educational Psychology, and EDEX 2484 Introduction to Special Education

EDCI 2440 Classroom Management and ITEC 2360 Educational Technology Theory and Applications may be taken concurrently.

Upon completion of EDUC 2100 Practicum in Teaching, the student will:

1. Evaluate his/her individual aptitude and desire for a career in education
2. Determine whether he/she has the necessary academic capacities to contemplate teaching as a career.
3. Recognize his/her own learning style and have a clearer understanding of differences in learning styles.
4. Determine whether he/she has the essential acquired personal capacities to consider teaching as a career.
5. Recognize a number of varying dimensions of the role of the teacher.
6. Develop lesson plans using various models.
7. Demonstrate practical experience in applying previous and concurrent learning in education.
8. Assemble a professional dossier.
9. Employ lesson with school-age students.
10. Demonstrate effective communication skills.
11. Demonstrate personal responsibility for their learning and work diligently to learn from the “practicum” experience.
12. Utilize a variety of critical thinking and decision making strategies to promote learning.
13. Demonstrate a respect for diversity in all people and recognizes their own biases.
14. Demonstrate the value of listening and responding to others in an appropriate manner.
15. Recognize the need for a variety of technology enhanced instructional strategies based on current research and best practice.
16. Demonstrate the active willingness to design, model and promote learning activities that are consistent with identified learning objectives.
17. Demonstrate the active willingness to model self-reflection.
18. Expand his/her educational philosophy.
19. Develop a set of sophisticated beliefs about teaching and learning.