EDU 323

Clinical Experience I Elementary Education

This clinical experience will focus on the knowledge, skills, abilities and dispositions teachers need to teach elementary school students, K 6. This clinical experience will provide evidence-based research, and clinical opportunities that will be implemented, analyzed, evaluated and refined during the 16 weeks of clinical experience. This iterative process facilitates the development of skills that promotes the learning of all students, including students with disabilities, in the following: (a) The Learner and Learning; (b) Content Knowledge; (c) Instructional Practice; (d) Professional Responsibility. With the support of the college faculty and the public school clinical practitioners, the teacher candidate will actively engage in on-going self-assessment, focusing on the refinement of supporting student learning and linking the K 8 learning progress to the knowledge, skills, abilities and dispositions of the teacher candidate.

Units: 3.0