Jun 28, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024

EDPL 2910 - Early Childhood Elementary Education Pre-Primary Internship


This course is the Pre-Primary Internship for the Early Childhood and Elementary Education program. This pre-primary internship provides students an embedded teaching experience in a preschool setting. Students plan and implement learning experiences that are developmentally appropriate for learners ages 3-5 and work as part of a preschool classroom teaching team. This course also creates an essential link between students’ internship and university coursework. Through critical discussion and reflection, students examine teaching practices and effective strategies for positively impacting preschool children’s learning.

Requisites: Teacher Candidacy, admission to Pre-Primary Internship.
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 20.0 internship
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
  • Students will be able to design and prepare appropriate learning environments for preschool children.
  • Students will be able to interpret situations and choose an effective and appropriate classroom management strategy to use with young children.
  • Students will be able to plan, prepare, and implement developmentally appropriate curriculum for preschool children as individuals and a whole class.
  • Students will be able to collaborate by working within a teaching team.
  • Students will be able to synthesize and show children’s development and learning.
  • Students will be able to communicate with families professionally through both formal and informal means.
  • Students will be able to recall, describe, and explain the activities and experiences of young children both verbally and in written form.
  • Students will be able to interpret, question, and relate to theory and practice through reading, writing, and dialogue.


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