ECE597 Early Childhood Education/Preprimary/Half-Day Student Teaching

This course provides a full morning or full afternoon in a preprimary classroom (birth to prekindergarten) for ten weeks. Weekly seminars are conducted for all student teachers and address problems, issues, and concerns of beginning teachers. Successful completion of this experience is based on a variety of competencies, including full responsibility for a classroom for at least 2 weeks. Prerequisite(s): Degree status, completion of methods course work, ECE 593, passing score of the Early Childhood Content Area exam, and timely completion of the student teaching application. 3 Semester Hours