EDP 301  Practicum I: K-8: 3 Credits (3 Other)

PREREQUISITE: Q core and EDU 382. (F, Sp) Requires good standing in Teacher Education Program. This course is designed to introduce the professional environment of public schools and to prepare pre-service teachers for student teaching. A particular focus will be spent on pre-service teacher accountability and development within the four framework components of the Montana Educator Performance Appraisal System: planning and preparation, classroom environment, instructional effectiveness for student learning, and professional responsibilities

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1. Model the Framework for Teaching domains of planning and preparation, classroom environment, instructional effectiveness, and professional responsibilities at a minimum of a basic level of performance.
2. Develop critical aspects of contextual awareness, professionalism, and communication in a public-school setting. 
3. Utilize differentiation, higher-level questioning strategies, and instructional technologies to enhance student engagement and learning. 
4. Incorporate co-teaching, reflective teaching and data-based decision-making best practices in a purposeful way in preparation for your student teaching field experiences. 
5. Demonstrate the entire lesson planning, instructing, assessing, and reflecting process through the creation of high-quality assignments. 
6. Implement standards-based instruction using Common Core, InTASC, IEFA, and Teacher Educator standards during lesson planning, instruction, assessment, and reflection.
7. Validate how thoughtful, purposeful alignment between planning and assessment leads to productive student learning outcomes.
8. Analyze assessment results from your lesson sequence to determine effectiveness of instruction and consider reasons and implications for future instruction.