Capstone Clinical Experience & Seminar for Health Education or Physical Education, Grade K-6

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Capstone Clinical Experience & Seminar for Health Education or Physical Education, Grade K-6

The Capstone Clinical Experience for Health Education or Physical Education in grades K-6 consists of guided observation and supervised teaching in school settings. Teacher candidates are supported through collaboration with college clinical supervisors, who will provide high-quality feedback at regular intervals. Student teachers are assigned cooperating teachers at York College Partner Schools, who have proven to be both highly effective teachers and strong mentors capable of meeting the high expectations of York College. In addition, teachier candidates attend a Senior Seminar that provides extensive practice creating instructional plans and assessments that reflect deep knowledge of both content and pedagogy, applying educational research and theory oro instructional planning, understanding the specific needs of a variety of diverse learners including struggling readers, analyzing assessment data, as well as helping teacher candidates articulate their thinking in planning and reflection. Student teachers spend four full school days (Monday-Friday 8:00am-3:00pm; 8:00am-12:00pm on lab day) in their first placement school for seven weeks of the semester and attend the lab on campus weekly. This course is taught in a 7-week format. In a 7-week format, students' contact hours will average 30 hours per week (4 laboratory; 26 clinical), for a total of 28 laboratory hours and 180 onsite clinical hours.

Fall, Spring

Undergraduate

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