EDU 605B: Student Teaching: Classroom Practicum II

Overview

At Jones International University, Level-2 field experience is student teaching. It is a required component of the M.Ed. Teacher Licensure degree that prepares students to become licensed teachers. Students apply their knowledge and expertise of curriculum design, instructional strategies, and assessment approaches to a K–12 educational setting in a public institution.

Mixing field observation experiences and full-time teaching, candidates apply standards-based educational theories and practices daily to teaching and learning environments. EDU605 (A & B) are project-based courses in which students practice teaching in a public school in their "endorsement area" and produce a job-ready portfolio.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Explain and demonstrate how student teachers engaging in supervised, professional field experiences can use reflective practices to improve their teaching.
• Rehearse and develop classroom practices to manage time, communications, and record keeping procedures to support and enhance student learning.
• Respond to the needs and experiences children bring to the classroom, including those based on culture, community, ethnicity, economics, linguistics, and innate learning abilities.
• Discuss learning exceptionalities and conditions that affect the rate and extent of student learning, and begin adapting instruction for all learners.
• Collaborate with other educational professionals to accomplish school, district, and state educational goals and objectives.
• Use strategies, planning practices, assessment techniques, and appropriate accommodations to ensure student learning in a standards-based curriculum and communicate those plans to parents, guardians, professionals, administrators, and the community.
• Describe and apply the use of Colorado Model Content Standards (or standards for another state or INTASC) in elementary and secondary curricula, especially in literacy, mathematics, and assessment.
• Demonstrate your professional accomplishments gained from student teaching and mastery of all course learning objectives through a portfolio project.

Required Texts
EDU 605B texts are available from the JIU/MBS bookstore