DUAL MAJOR: Childhood Education/Liberal Arts Science Discipline — 3 units
This Learning Community is designed to prepare our majors for advanced study or for careers in teaching. Students with a dual major must take the Senior Learning Community in the Education Department.
ED 550B: STUDENT TEACHING: INCLUSIVE/EARLY CHILDHOOD-GRADES 1-3 (1 unit)
The student's professional and specialized education for teaching all children at the childhood level (1-3) culminates in this extensive field experience. This experience includes full-time directed teaching in accredited inclusive, mainstreamed and regular classrooms for students in grades one to three. Student tasks involve orientation to school and classroom, on-the-job growth in planning, instructional and evaluation skills, and experience in practicing human and professional relations. A weekly one-hour reflection seminar will accompany the clinical experience, led by the student's college supervisor. The seminar will include an extended 2-hour workshop in identifying and preventing child abuse, and a 3-hour workshop in violence prevention and fire safety. Students will spend a minimum of six weeks (full time) at this placement. Prerequisites: Acceptance by the Educational Personnel Preparation Advisory Committee into clinical practice. Offered fall/spring semesters.
ED 560B: STUDENT TEACHING: INCLUSIVE/MIDDLE CHILDHOOD-GRADES 4-8 (1 unit)
The student’s professional and specialized education for teaching all children at the childhood level (4-8) culminates in this extensive field experience. This experience includes full-time directed teaching in accredited inclusive, mainstreamed and regular classrooms for students in grades four to eight. Student’s tasks involve orientation to school and classroom, instructional and evaluation skills, and experience in human and professional relations. A weekly one-hour reflection seminar will accompany the clinical experience led by the student's college supervisor. The seminar will include an extended 2-hour workshop in identifying and preventing child abuse and a 3-hour workshop in violence prevention and fire safety. Students will spend a minimum of six weeks (full time) at this placement. Prerequisites: Acceptance by the Educational Personnel Preparation Advisory Committee into clinical practice. Offered fall/spring semesters.
ED 580: SCHOOL, DIVERSITY & SOCIETY (1 unit)
This capstone course, part of the senior learning community, is an advanced-level course designed to enhance students’ skills as reflective practitioners and transformative intellectuals. The course will provide pre-professional student teachers with an analytic framework to undertake an interdisciplinary analysis of the school-society relationship. The course provides students with an opportunity to reflect on their understanding of educational issues and concepts as they work in the field. Using this experience along with their knowledge of educational issues, students will discover how and why certain school/society issues arose in this country and then changed over time. While this course will take students' practice as central, it will cover the following: school laws; an examination of diversity issues; advanced study of the philosophical and sociological foundations of American education; current reform efforts; and professional development issues. Prerequisite: Concurrent with ED 550B/560B. Offered fall/spring semesters.
