BIOL 4012 - Practicum Seminar (5-12)

3 cr. 3 hr. Spring semesters concurrent with the Practicum.

This course is taken in conjunction with the practicum. Using peer collaboration and self-reflection, teacher candidates explore strategies to improve instruction, promote positive student behavior and social-emotional growth, and provide leadership at a school-wide level. The course also serves as a culminating experience in which candidates produce a Teacher Work Sample (TWS), a multi-step performance assessment that models the planning-teaching-assessment cycle of the professional educator, and that provides evidence of the candidate’s readiness to teach. This course is cross-listed with CHEM 4012, ENGL 4012, HIST 4012, MATH 4012, ENGT 4012 and SCI 4012

Prerequisite(s): Stage II Review.