EDU 420 Practicum: Professional Practices and Classroom Contexts

This course integrates educational theory, practice-based theory and understanding with field-based experience. This continues to expand the candidates’ professional expertise through the Adaptive Cycles of Teaching (ACT) experiential curriculum to help teacher candidates plan, implement, reflect and analyze core teaching practices. Teacher candidates will also continue to refine their professional practices and deepen their understanding of classroom contexts and their importance to planning, instruction, assessment and reflection. The candidates actively engage in two full days per week in a field-based setting linked to their student teaching placement. Pre-requisite(s): EDU 299, EDU 350, EDU 477 and EDU 480. Co-requisite(s): None. 5 quarter hours

Credits

5