53-544 Clinical Practice & Seminar: Secondary

This course is designed for candidates seeking the Illinois Professional Educator License with an endorsement in secondary education. Candidates complete a 15-week clinical experience opportunity in a high school setting. They are expected to assume full responsibility for the duties of classroom teacher, including development, delivery and assessment of instruction; grading and evaluation of students; classroom management; communication with parents and school personnel and interpretation of data related to student learning. Progress in development is carefully monitored through observation and feedback from the mentor teacher, University supervisor and content area specialist.

Credits

6

Prerequisite

3.0 GPA; Admission to clinical practice; all required content, methods and field experience course work completed; and a negative TB test on file.

Corequisite

Clinical practice may be repeated only once for credit with the consent of the College of Education and the Teacher Education Committees.