ED 4403 - Student Teaching Seminar (3) F, SP

Taken concurrently with Clinical Practice III, this course meets multiple days throughout the semester in all-day sessions. It serves as professional development with specific segments dedicated to performance assessment preparation (edTPA), social-emotional learning, and a significant emphasis on the practice of traditional Christian virtues that includes care and concern for the poor; service to the disenfranchised; healing for the broken; development of economic opportunity for the marginalized; speech and/or action on behalf of justice in the public education system; peacemaking; etc. This emphasis allows provides a spiritual dimension to our course. Licensure requirements include development of a final showcase portfolio for presentation, and developing and being evaluated on the C.A.R.E. framework in both placements. Students are required to attend all sessions, provide required documentation, and participate in activities related to each major objective. **Starting in Spring 2018, all student teacher candidates will be required to complete the edTPA assessment. Specific tools and preparation for edTPA will be a part of this course. The course fee ($300) attached to ED 4403 will fund a voucher to pay for the edTPA assessment. **If a student fails one or more sections of the edTPA assessment, the student must retake the course and/or remediate the failed sections as appropriate. The student is responsible for all costs related to remediation and retakes.

Corequisite: ED 471C , ED 472C ED 473C , ED 474C or ED 475C .
$300 edTPA fee