One-week intensive course that prepares pre-service teachers for student teaching.

SED 552 – Mathematics; SED 553 – Science.

SED 509 (Section 1)  (2) Summer Practicum

Practicum that accompanies Methods I. Pre-service teachers will engage in structured observations of ambitious teaching.

SED 509  (Section 2)  (3) September Experience

Pre-service teachers are placed in the schools where they will be doing their Fall student teaching practicum. This is a half-time experience beginning on the first day of each district’s teacher inservice and ending the Friday before Fall term classes begin. There are also mandatory class meetings held at OSU on Thursday afternoons in September from 1500 – 1800.  The purpose of these meetings is to learn classroom analysis and observation skills that will help the pre-service teachers make sense of their experiences.

Subject Matter Course (3)

This term allows time for students to take graduate-level subject courses as needed.  Many pre-service teachers complete this requirement prior to the beginning of the program.

SED 509 (3) Fall Part-time Student Teaching Practicum

During the month of October, pre-service teachers continue to work with their cooperating teachers and their university supervisors to identify and plan a unit of instruction. They then return to the classroom in November for six weeks of teaching. During this time, the pre-service teacher teaches a unit of either a minimum of seven instructional hours in duration or at least for five separate instructional days.  This teaching becomes the basis for the work sample at this authorization level.

SED 511 (3) Analysis of Classrooms I

This course will focus on the purpose of assessment and strategies for assessment in the classroom.  This includes both formative and summative assessment strategies.  Support will be provided for the assessment requirements for the Fall work sample.

SED 573/574 (4) Science/Mathematics Pedagogy & Technology I

Pre-service teachers study the development of K-12 science and math learners including learning theory, use of students’ cultural experiences in teaching and learning, and content knowledge for teaching.  Pre-service teachers will develop professional dispositions such as lifelong learning, reflective practice, and respect for diversity.  This course supports the development of the Fall work sample.  Fall term. SED 573 – Science; SED 574 – Mathematics

TCE 520 (3) Classroom Management and Discipline

This course provides knowledge of discipline and classroom management techniques through examination of the literature and school observations. Explores factors that influence student behavior, including those associated with social and/or multicultural student populations.  This course is taught by the College of Education.

Subject Matter (3)

This term allows time for students to take graduate-level subject courses as needed.  Many pre-service teachers complete this requirement prior to the beginning of the program. Science students are required to take at least one History or Philosophy of Science course.

Pre-service teachers study the development of K-12 science and math learners including learning theory, use of students’ cultural experiences in teaching and learning, and content knowledge for teaching.  Pre-service teachers will develop professional dispositions such as lifelong learning, reflective practice, and respect for diversity.  Winter term. SED 576 – Science; SED 577 – Mathematics

SED 509 (3) Winter Classroom Practicum

In this course, pre-service teachers spend time in the classroom to coordinate with their winter coursework.

TCE 599 (3) Funds of Knowledge

This course provides an overview of the many issues relevant to the increasingly diverse student population in public schools today. It explores how a culturally competent perspective can be incorporated into curriculum design, teaching strategies, and interactions with students and parents. The course is both self-directed and communal, requiring students to respond to the materials and each other, yet at their own pace.  This course is conducted partly on-line by the College of Education.

Subject Matter (3)

This term allows time for students to take graduate-level subject courses as needed.  Many pre-service teachers complete this requirement prior to the beginning of the program.  Students must complete this requirement by Winter term.

Eleven week full-time teaching during which the pre-service teacher assumes full instructional responsibility of approved courses.  The pre-service teacher also completes at least one work sample.

SED 581/592 (3) Professional Development and Practicum in Mathematics/Science

Pre-service teachers complete the Masters Project.