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PED 488: Practicum In Teaching
2 credits
Opportunity for fieldwork in teaching. Pre-student teaching. (Learning Goals: )
Learning Goals
Scholarship: • Through class participation and selected readings, the student will be able to discuss current trends and issues that are impacting the physical education profession. Reflective Practice:• Through practical teaching experiences and self-assessment, students will be able to clearly define his/her own strengths and weaknesses as a physical educator. Each student will be able to analyze his/her own teaching behavior, using specific analytic tools, thoughtful planning, develop appropriate assessment strategies and through reflection and reflective writing, make appropriate decisions for change. Social Justice:• Students will develop and implement lessons that demonstrate advocacy for all of their students regardless of cultural, gender and economic differences. Inclusive Community:• Through the development and implementation of lessons in physical education class, students will have the opportunity to write and refine appropriate lesson objectives, lesson criteria, and assessment. Each student will be required to demonstrate their ability to make appropriate provisions for students with diverse learning needs, differences or varying abilities. Wellness:• Through the development and implementation of lessons in physical education class, students will be required to demonstrate their ability to promote learning environments that model safe and healthy group interactions and reinforce cooperative behavior and good character by all. Creativity & the Arts:• Through the development and implementation of lessons in physical education class, students will incorporate the ideas of cooperative, peer, social responsibility and inquiry concepts planning into practice that offer their students the opportunity to be creative and express individuality.
*The learning goals displayed here are those for one section of this
course as offered in a recent semester, and are provided for the purpose of
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specific semester will be stated on the syllabus distributed at the start
of the semester, and may differ in wording and emphasis from those shown
here.