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EDU 218 - Initial Field Experience

Credits: 2
Lecture Hours: 1
Lab Hours: 0
Practicum Hours: 0
Work Experience: 4
Course Type: Open
Course will provide opportunities to enhance understanding of the teaching profession and assist with decisions to pursue a career in education. Time spent observing, assisting and teaching in a classroom with a licensed educator. Various opportunities for interacting with students, learning instructional strategies and collaborating with teachers. Students will gain a greater understanding of the daily expectations of a teacher.
Prerequisite: EDU 210  
Competencies
  1. Summarize ways to effectively create a positive classroom climate.
    1. Design, with input from the classroom teacher, expectations for your future classroom.
    2. Develop an activity/lesson that teaches tolerance and acceptance.
    3. Develop and share your plan for designing the physical structure of your future classroom. The plan should include but not be limited to seating, whole and small group learning areas, information/bulletin boards and technology centers.
  2. Demonstrate an understanding of various methods for successful delivery of instruction.
    1. Explain three examples of differentiation you have observed in the classroom and the impact each had on student learning.
    2. Outline methods of instruction proven to be effective in engaging students in learning. Methods should include but not be limited to Project Based learning, Integrated Studies and Technology Integration.
    3. List examples of accommodations and modifications used to deliver instruction for students on an Individualized Education Plan.
    4. Discuss the benefits of teacher focused, dialogue focused and student focused instruction and provide an example of each.
  3. Identify effective methods of classroom management.
    1. Compare the expectations/responsibilities of administrators, teachers and students in establishing a safe and productive classroom environment.
    2. Explain strategies used to effectively manage a classroom including building positive relationships, establishing classroom routines, developing clear classroom expectations and the use of positive behaviors supports and token systems.
    3. Express the importance of following school district and building policies within an educational setting as it relates to classroom management.
  4. Demonstrate an understanding of the duties and responsibilities for teachers both in and out of the classroom.
    1. Outline additional duties outside the classroom covered by the teacher on a daily and weekly basis.
    2. Summarize one after school event and one volunteer event you have attended/participated in during the course and share how these experiences have better prepared you to become a teacher.
  5. Appraise current trends in education and their affect on classroom instruction.
    1. Assess the use of new forms of technology/innovation in the classroom and the impact it has on enhanced student learning.
    2. Plan a lesson/activity involving STEM for elementary students and share with your instructor and classroom teacher.
    3. Plan a lesson/activity involving the use of STEM in a cross- curricular way at the secondary level and share with your instructor and classroom teacher.
  6. Construct a portfolio that demonstrates your growth in understanding the teaching profession.
    1. Produce artifacts demonstrating your knowledge and skills for teaching as they relate to pre-service standards.
    2. Explain InTASC standards and the influence they have on preparing quality educators.
    3. Demonstrate your professional growth using written reflections over themes and pre-service standards to be included in your portfolio.
    4. Demonstrate your growth in the teaching professional by sharing your portfolio with your instructor and classroom teacher.



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