TED-2301 Field Experience for Introduction to Special Education

Credits 1
This course allows students to engage in guided observations of special education practice in local public schools for a total of 15 hours. Students will attend a seminar at PGCC every other week. This field experience is an opportunity to apply concepts learned in TED 2300 to the processes of teaching and learning at a local school.
Prerequisite(s): Reading proficiency. EGL-1010 . It is required that A.A.T. students take TED-2300 and TED 2301 concurrently.
(EDU 2340)
(Not offered summer.)

Course Outcomes

Complete a portfolio that shows and explains approaches to learning and teaching for students with special needs.
Classify the construction of curriculum as it is responsive to developmental, cultural, and social needs of children.
Understand, articulate, and exemplify principles of professional practice for educators.
Describe different approaches to teaching and of methods specific to the approaches selected.
Achieve satisfactory or superior ratings from their mentor teachers on dimensions of professionalism, communication skills, flexibility, and ethics.
Describes various exceptionalities and individual difference and how culture and experience affect these.