490: Student Teaching. Goal: To demonstrate effective methods of teaching, classroom management, and professional teaching behaviors. Content: A minimum of thirteen full weeks of teaching in public schools under the direction of a certified classroom teacher and a college supervisor. Taught: Fall, Spring; Prerequisites: Admission to Teacher Education; completion of all methods courses; and admission to Student Teaching. Placement made by Education Department and school systems' field placement officials. Credit: 9 hours.
Education in Reading (EDR) 300: Teaching Reading and Writing in the ECE Classroom. (required for education majors and educational studies minors) Goal: To understand and reflect on the process of teaching reading and writing. Content: This course is the first reading course in a three-course sequence. The course will help the candidates investigate various research-based approaches, techniques, and strategies for teaching students the five components of reading instruction: Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Fluency, Vocabulary Development, and Comprehension. EDR 300 will address the foundational elements and theoretical bases or reading and writing instruction. In addition, the candidates will be introduced to reading and writing assessment techniques. 20 hours of field experience are required. Taught: Fall Prerequisites: Admission to the Teacher Education Program. Credit: 3 hours 340: Reading Assessment and Instruction in the Early Childhood Classroom Goal: To learn, interpret, and apply reading and writing assessment techniques. Content: This course is designed to give the early childhood candidate the necessary tools for administering, scoring, and interpreting informal and formal reading assessments. In addition, this course will help the candidate learn to use the assessment results to make informed decisions about instructional strategies. 10 hours of field experiences are required. Taught: Spring Prerequisite: EDR 300; Admission to the Teacher Education Program.
Credit: 3 hours 390: Comprehensive Literacy in the Classroom in the ECE Classroom Goal: To understand and learn ways to integrate language arts with content (science, social studies, and math) in the context of reader’s and writer’s workshops. Content: This course explores the integration of the language arts (listening, speaking, writing, reading, and viewing) and content (mathematics, science, social studies) in the P-5 classrooms in the reader’s and writer’s workshops. The course will focus on essential literacy competencies identified by the National Reading Panel: Fluency, Word Identification, Vocabulary, and Writing. 20 hours of field experience are required. Taught: Fall Prerequisites: Admission to the Teacher Education Program; EDR 300; EDR 340 Credit: 3 hours; Senior Integrative Experience
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