Nov 22, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2024-25

EDPL 4610 - Professional Internship in Middle Childhood


Assigned responsibility for teaching under the supervision of a cooperating teacher, grade 4-9. Required of all middle childhood education majors for full-time professional internship experience.

Requisites: ((EDPL 4620 and 4650 concurrent) or (EDPL 4630 and 4650)) and admission to professional internship in teaching
Credit Hours: 6
OHIO BRICKS: Bridge: Learning and Doing, Bridge: Speaking and Listening
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 12.0 laboratory
Grades: Eligible Grades: F,CR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
  • Students will be able to organize and sequence ideas and supporting materials for classroom lessons for school-age students that are cohesive, meet learning goals for school-age students, and communicate a compelling and memorable main point.
  • Students will be able to use unbiased vocabulary, terminology, and sentence structure when teaching classroom lessons that are appropriate for school-age students.
  • Students will be able to use posture, gestures, eye contact, and voice to effectively communicate academic content to school-age 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 school-age students.
  • Students will be able to make connections among and draw on educational scholarship, academic knowledge, and practical experience in their current and past course work and field experiences when teaching school-age students.
  • Students will be able to plan and teach lessons using language and a variety of formats and visual representations to enhance the meaning for school-age students.
  • Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of their strengths and areas for continued growth in the field of teaching and they will build on their prior experiences in their current teaching internship.
  • Students will be able to list the demographic characteristics of the student population.
  • Students will be able to exhibit an appropriate level of content knowledge.
  • Students will be able to use various strategies to effectively assess student learning.
  • Students will be able to apply a variety of instructional strategies to positively impact student learning.
  • Students will be able to critically analyze various factors that impact the learning environment.
  • Students will be able to collaborate and communicate professionally with teachers, students and parents.
  • Students will be able to provide evidence of their participation in and reflection on professional development and growth opportunities.


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