EDU 6374 Elementary Teaching Practicum
Prerequisite: Completed undergraduate degree, admission to an approved partner Certification Program, and a passing score on the appropriate TExES certifying content exam. The field experience in this course provide a hands-on minds-on learning opportunity for teacher candidates. The practicum field experience provides teacher candidates an opportunity to work with elementary public school students as they prepare them to become competent, successful, caring and enthusiastic professionals. Through the practicum placement, teacher candidates also have opportunities to collaborate with external partners to enhance students' knowledge, skills, and dispositions, and to influence the ongoing exchange of ideas. Through this course, teacher candidates learn to assess, plan, and implement instruction at appropriate levels. They also learn to use on-going assessment to reflect on student learning and teaching strategies to plan for future instruction. This course is the field placement for teacher candidates prior to clinical teaching.