(WTC course 404304) Diagnose, test, repair and replace basic automotive electrical system components. Includes and introduction to tools and equipment, automobile and shop safety, and safety sheets are signed. Adequate shop time is provided for practical application.

This course will assist student teachers in integrating theory with practice through discussion and personalized conferences. Special emphasis is on specific aspects of the teaching profession such as contracts, career, and life planning, professional organizations, resume preparation, interviews, legal rights and licensure. This course is restricted to students in the professional degree completion program. Prerequisite: admission to student teaching.

Student teaching occurs at the elementary and middle school levels. This is a capstone experience that is typically completed during the final semester. Student teaching requires students to work in a K-12 classroom full-time for an entire semester. This course is restricted to students in the professional degree completion program. Graded CR/NC. Prerequisite: admission to student teaching.

Recognizing the relationship between reading and writing in developing student literacy, this writing course prepares teacher candidates to attend to the other half of literacy: writing. Participants will learn how to incorporate writing into their planning, instructing, and evaluating that builds K-9 learners capacity to think and to share their thinking through writing. Emphasis is placed on the writing process, writing in the content areas, and specific instructional techniques. This course is restricted to students in the professional degree completion program.

This course addresses the ethical dimensions of educational practice and policy, with justice as the primary focus. Philosophical, theoretical, and empirical readings from a wide variety of disciplines will be used to analyze case studies of social issues shaping the 21st century classroom. As an ethics seminar, the course is designed to deepen students understandings of educational justice, to engage with others about complex ethical judgments across multiple lines of difference, and to learn how to enhance educators and policymakers capacities to make ethical decisions under challenging conditions.

Student teaching occurs at the elementary and middle levels. This is a capstone experience that is typically completed in the final semester. Student teaching requires students to work full-time in a K-12 classroom for an entire semester. Prerequisites: admission to the teacher education program; admission to student teaching. Graded CR/NC.

Student teaching occurs at middle and secondary levels. This is a capstone experience that is typically completed in the final semester. Student teaching requires students to work in a K-12 classroom full-time for an entire semester. Prerequisites: admission to the teacher education program; admission to student teaching. Graded CR/NC.

Student teaching occurs at the K-12 grade level. This is a capstone experience that is typically completed in the final semester. Student teaching requires students to work in a K-12 classroom full-time for an entire semester. Graded CR/NC.

Designed to assist student teachers in integrating theory with practice through discussion and individual conferences. Special emphasis on specific aspects of the teaching profession such as contracts, career, and life planning, mandatory reporting, the evaluation process, professional organizations, resume preparation, interviews, legal rights and licensure. Prerequisite: admission to student teaching.

Courses on topics of interest to education students offered on the basis of need, interest, or timeliness. Prerequisites as determined by instructor. Restricted to students with junior standing or higher. May be repeated for credit. For specific section description, click to the Section Details in VitNet.