Per the PA Department of Education (PDE), students seeking PA teacher certification must successfully accomplish a pre-student teaching experience. Pre-student teaching is designed to involve the pre-service early childhood, early childhood with special education, secondary, BCIT, and middle level education students with the various aspects of classroom teaching, methodology, pedagogy, curriculum/standards, and classroom management. The students will have the opportunity to employ reflective decision making when planning, implementing and assessing learning in an actual school environment. In addition, pre-service student teachers will become aware of the managerial, record keeping, and professional aspects of teaching in diverse classroom settings. During pre-student teaching, students will move through four basic learning experiences: observation, one-to-one tutoring or instruction, small group instruction and whole class or whole-group instruction.

Co-requisite: EDUC4120