EDU 110 Teaching Lab Seminar I
(Contact Hours: 1) This course is clinically based. It is the first clinical course that teacher candidates take during their first year (first or second semester) as students pursuing a transfer degree designed for teaching candidates. The course is designed to engage teacher candidates in developing a deeper awareness of the needs of K-12 learners in classroom settings. It is specifically designed to assist teacher candidates in four areas: 1) to demonstrate familiarity with learners by observing classroom interactions over a minimum of 5 times for a minimum of 2 hours each time, 2) to be able to identify supports for socio-emotional learning in classroom settings through analysis of case studies, video, and real-time classrooms, 3) to assist the classroom teacher with addressing student needs, and 4) to keep a set of substantive field notes and reflections about each classroom visit to be used in seminar discussion about building classroom community, classroom organization, classroom practice, and classroom diversity, equity, and relationship building. PREREQUISITE: Writing and Reading -- minimum benchmarks will be enforced.