ES 691: Internship Life Sciences Tchg

Description:

Competency Areas: Student Teaching Internship Cert - Required
Restricted to Life Sciences certification students.

Six credits of Teaching Internship are required for Life Sciences certification students. A minimum of 6 Internship credits is required for the MS degree.

You are now on your final stretch of earning your certification to become a science teacher. In hindsight, student teaching will feel like it passed in the blink of an eye. While doing it, however, it may feel like a long, strange and exhausting trip. Student teaching is a rite of passage that may at times make you second-guess your career choice. It is a passage from theory to practice and from theorizing, idealizing, and romanticizing about teaching to being on the front lines. It should stir up all sorts of emotions. Alongside the challenge of student teaching is the excitement and joy of developing meaningful relationships with your students, and the delight that comes with inspiring others to learn.

The purpose of our seminar is to provide you with logistical, moral, and pedagogical support. During this time, we?ll trouble-shoot problems, explore discipline issues, share curriculum ideas, muse about the value of homework, consider record keeping strategies, support your job search, and play with other issues as they emerge. We will meet on most Thursday afternoons via Adobe Connect Pro, an online video-conferencing tool. You willbe sent a link before the semester begins. You will need a high-speed connection, web-cam, and headset with microphone and headphones.