EDPL 4580 - Professional Internship in Early Childhood and Elementary Education

• Students will be able to organize and sequence ideas and supporting materials for classroom lessons that are cohesive and meet learning goals for preK-grade 5 students.
• Students will be able to use unbiased vocabulary, terminology, and sentence structure when teaching classroom lessons that are appropriate for preK-grade 5 students.
• Students will be able to use posture, gestures, eye contact, and voice to effectively communicate academic content to preK-grade 5 students.
• Students will be able to provide discipline-appropriate tools, such as explanations, analogies, quotations, statistics, examples, relevant contexts, and visual representations, to support the learning goals of classroom lessons for preK-grade 5 students.
• Students will be able to articulate a precise, compelling, and memorable main point to classroom lessons for preK-grade 5 students.
• Students will be able to connect relevant knowledge of both their academic discipline and educational scholarship to their classroom teaching experiences.
• Students will be able to make connections between educational scholarship, their academic discipline, and other academic disciplines as appropriate to the content they are teaching.
• Students will be able to adapt the skills and methodologies learned in their educational coursework and prior field experiences to their current teaching internship.
• Students will be able to plan and teach lessons using language and a variety of formats and visual representations to enhance the meaning for preK-grade 5 students.
• Students will be able to apply their prior teaching experiences to identify their strengths and areas for continued growth in their internship and in the field of education.
• Students will be able to utilize critical reflection and anti-racist practices to analyze factors that impact the learning environment.
• Students will be able to utilize content knowledge and various instructional strategies when planning, teaching, and assessing lessons.
• Students will be able to utilize collaborative practices and communication strategies with teachers, children, and families.