Description
This field experience will provide teacher candidates supervised experiences with two different age groups within the range of grade levels for which the candidates are being prepared to teach. Teaching experiences in content areas taught in the adolescent classrooms with diverse student populations will be provided, as well as opportunities for a gradual increase in the teacher candidate's responsibility in the classroom. Adolescent Education teacher candidates will be under the supervision of certified master teachers. Evaluation will be based on field performance. A nine hour field experience per week is required. This course also helps to prepare teacher candidates for the edTPA, a performance-based assessment required for initial certification, by analyzing and applying the three tasks: (1) Planning for Instruction and Assessment, (2) Instructing and Engaging Students in Learning and (3) Assessing Student Learning.