EDUC 210 - Assisting Practicum

Credits: 3
Students work with children in the classroom, learning and demonstrating the fundamentals of developmentally- appropriate and culturally-sensitive practices. Students participate online each week, linking the practicum experience to theory. Requires 44 hours of volunteering/working in a public school setting (elementary/middle school.)

Enrollment Requirement: Instructor consent.

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

Assist actively in all classroom curriculum areas.
Identify and evaluate a classroom floor plan including the goals/purpose for each activity center.
Write and evaluate a daily schedule.
Record involvement in each center in a daily journal.
Plan and implement lesson plans with children.
Compile a portfolio to include assignments, Information about the program, Photographs, checklists for Health and Safety, Learning Environments, Multicultural Evaluations and Self Reflections/Evaluations.

Program Outcomes

Demonstrate professional and ethical practices.
Support a positive and safe learning environment.
Communicate effectively and participate in the team process.
Demonstrate cultural competence.

College-wide Outcomes

Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
Responsibility - encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.