TEACHING READING & LANGUAGE ARTS

This course provides a weekly supervised practicum and seminar. This offers a supportive, scaffolded, first step into teaching. Students will be teaching reading and language arts in a PreK-4th grade level classroom. Instructional topics will be assigned by classroom mentor teachers. Topics will address the grade-level standards for reading, writing, speaking and listening. Practicum students will use assessment information to design lessons, and differentiate instruction to meet student needs. Throughout the practicum, students will be able to demonstrate effective reading and language arts instruction, and promote skill development in early elementary students. The primary objective of this course is for students to practice planning and implementing standards-based reading and language arts instruction that is very interactive, and differentiated for student strengths and needs.
Field Experience: 15 hours of Stage 3 Field Experience