EDUC 562 Student Teaching and Seminar: Secondary Education
EDUC 561, 562 and 563, taken concurrently, involve student teaching, conducting action research in the classroom, and completing an electronic portfolio. The student teaching experience (561 and 562) consists of a full-day, fourteen-week semester spent in a secondary school through which the candidate gains teaching knowledge and experience. For 561, candidates observe and assume limited teaching responsibility for ten weeks. For 562, candidates assume full responsibility for a minimum of four weeks of the semester. Student teaching seminar (563) 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.