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Education Capstone and Fieldwork (EDUC 2650)
Total Credits:
3
Lecture Credits:
2.00
Lab Credits:
1.00
Description:
This course serves as a capstone for the Education program. You will have the opportunity to enact the theories and practices you have studied by leading a small group of K-12 students in a semester long "praxis" project. As the teacher-facilitator, you will be responsible for crafting lessons and activities with the students that push them to a final project. You will examine your own practices and reflect on your knowledge, disposition, and skills as an educator, as well as develop a plan that includes taking and successfully passing the Minnesota Teacher Licensure Exam in Basic Skills. Must be taken A-F.
Topical Outline:
1. Teaching as Identity: Evaluation Dispositions, Skills and Knowledge of Effective Teachers
2. Teaching as Intellectual Work
3. Teaching as Reflection & Change
4. Preparing for the Teaching Profession
5. Facilitating Praxis Groups & Reflection
Learning Outcomes:
1. Examine the knowledge, dispositions and skills of excellent educators by assessing rubrics used by the profession and schools to define teacher quality
2. Evaluate your role as an educator in your field work using teacher evaluation tools by using student work, cooperating teacher evaluations, reflective journals and peer observations
3. Discuss and challenge how race, class, gender, culture, ability, and sexuality impact views of the world and how that lens affects communication, relationships and instructional choices in field work
4. Describe and reflect on the way a teacher’s behavior influences student growth and learning, as well as analyze how teachers can promote a learning community
5. Formulate ways teachers can be agents of change in classrooms, schools and communities
6. Design an action research study that stems from challenges experienced in the field work using observations, professional literature and data collection to decide on interventions and reflect on results
Prerequisites:
EDUC 2350