EDU 450 Advanced Urban Teaching Practicum and Seminar

This advanced pre-student teaching practicum is designed to give urban teacher candidates the opportunity to document and reflect upon at least 60 hours practical clinical experience in an urban middle school or high school classroom within their subject area of licensure. Requirements include teaching at least 3 lessons in their licensure area to a whole class of students, but most of the clinical field experience hours and active classroom involvement will be determined by field-based assignments required in other Education courses and the cooperating urban school teacher hosting the practicum. Successful completion of this practicum is a prerequisite for student teaching. Requirements include attendance and participation in periodic seminars to help prospective urban teacher candidates reflect upon their field experiences, and prepare for student teaching.

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Note: Admission to the Urban Teacher Program required to register. Co-requisites: For Elementary, Early Childhood Education, and ESL majors is EDU 487 Methods of Teaching Reading in Urban Grades K-6 and is to be taken concurrently with EDU 450. For Secondary Education majors depending on the licensure area a required content methods course i.e., LAED, MAED, SCED or SSED is to be taken concurrent with EDU 450. For SPED majors, this course is to be taken with SPED 440/640.