EDUC 461 Student Teaching and Seminar: Secondary Education
EDUC 461, 462 and 463, taken concurrently, involve student teaching, conducting action research in the classroom, and completing an electronic portfolio. The student teaching experience (461 and 462) consists of a full-day, fourteen-week semester spent in a secondary school through which the candidate gains teaching knowledge and experience. For 461, candidates observe and assume limited teaching responsibility for ten weeks. For 462, candidates assume full responsibility for a minimum of four weeks of the semester. Student teaching seminar (463) involves attending a weekly seminar, completing an action research project as well as an electronic portfolio designed to meet professional and departmental standards. Only one other course may be taken with the student teaching experience.