EDUC 223 Practicum: Focus on Special Education (2 credits)

2. Establish supportive relationships with children; guide them as individuals and as part of a group.

3. Serve children and families in a professional manner.

4. Demonstrate cultural competence and responsiveness within and across cultures and provide an inclusive, welcoming, and respectful environment where all children, youth, and families can take pride in their cultural identities, beliefs, and practices.

5. Perform duties of the assigned role as outlined in expectations by the site supervisor.

6. Collaborate at regular intervals with the site supervisor to further develop skills, realign expectations and duties or change responsibilities.

7. Compare and contrast inclusive and self-contained programs / classrooms for young children based on a primary classroom assignment and required secondary site visit.

8. Compare and contrast strength based and deficit based approaches to educational planning and curriculum development.

9. Create curriculum to meet children’s educational goals.

Degree Outcomes
Program Outcome:

OUTCOME 5. USING CONTENT KNOWLEDGE TO BUILD MEANINGFUL CURRICULUM Students apply their knowledge of developmental domains and academic (or content) disciplines to design, implement, and evaluate meaningful, challenging curriculum that promotes comprehensive developmental and learning outcomes for each child.

     5a: Explain content knowledge and resources in academic disciplines: language and literacy; the arts – music, creative movement, dance, drama, visual arts; mathematics; science; physical education – physical activity, health, and safety; and social studies.

     5b: Recognize and apply the central concepts, inquiry tools, and structures of content areas or academic disciplines.

     5c: Use their own knowledge, appropriate early learning outcomes, and other resources to design, implement, and evaluate developmentally meaningful and challenging curriculum for each child.

OUTCOME 7. EARLY CHILDHOOD FIELD EXPERIENCES Students engage in field experiences and clinical practice to develop the knowledge, skills and professional dispositions necessary to promote the development and learning of young children in a variety of early childhood settings and with multiple age groups.

     7a. Observe and practice in at least two of the three early childhood age groups (birth – age 3, 3-5, 5-8).

     7b. Observe and practice in at least two of the three main types of early education settings (primary school grades, child care centers and homes, ECEAP/Head Start programs).

Multiculturalism: Graduates will demonstrate knowledge of diverse ideas, cultures, and experiences, and develop the ability to examine their own attitudes and assumptions in order to understand and work with others who differ from themselves.

Lecture Contact Hours 5
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 45
Total Contact Hours 50