LTED 680 - Elementary Campus Based Practicum

This course provides the degree candidate the experience of teaching an emergent or elementary school learner who needs support to grow as a reader or writer in a faculty supervised practicum. Using the appreciations, understandings, and knowledge they have gained throughout their program, the graduate students will engage in the following: determining the child’s strengths and needs, planning instruction which uses these strengths to overcome and/or compensate for the needs, and using exemplary instructional practices to introduce appropriate reading and/or writing strategies to support the child’s growth. An additional major focus and expectation of the practicum is the graduate student will become an increasingly sophisticated reflective practitioner who can reflect on action in action. In addition, the student will communicate to the parents their child’s reading/writing strengths and needs, reading behaviors, progress, reading strategies introduced to the child, and instructional strategies used to accelerate his/her progress. During the course the graduate student, with the help of the program director, will formulate the question for his/her TARP, design the study, write the literature review, and start to gather data, if appropriate.

Prerequisites & Notes
Chair Approval Required. Open only to students in Birth-Grade 6 program and students in the Grade 5-12 program who are working for a second certification. Students must pre-register with the Clinic Director prior to the formal registration period. Failure to pre-register may preclude registration for the practicum. Students cannot register for this course through NazNet. Program director will provide approved list to The Registrar’s Office, who will complete the registration process.

Credits: 3