MAS 7801 Practicum/Pedagogical Approaches to Teaching in the Middle and High School
This course provides the candidate with the pedagogical approaches and methods needed to effectively plan and deliver lessons in middle level and high school classrooms. The course will focus on approaches to planning lessons, strategies for delivering those lessons in the classroom, skills in assessing student learning during the delivery of lessons, and processes for using assessment data to evaluate student achievement and lesson effectiveness in the classroom. The practicum component of the course will require the candidate to complete 24 clock hours in a classroom setting in the content area in which the candidate is preparing to teach. In that setting, the candidate will observe instruction, work with individual and small groups of students, and will plan and deliver a lesson.
Prerequisite
AHS 7601, AHS 7602, AHS 7603, AHS 7604, AHS 7651, AHS 7652, AHS 7701 and AHS 7998. Completion of a 30-hour concentration as determined through transcript analysis by a specific Wilmington University advisor, and all required course work.