ED526 Best Practices in Secondary Context

This course is designed as the capstone methods course for all prospective middle/secondary education candidates and must be taken prior to student teaching/clinical practice. Candidates will focus on best practices in a secondary classroom in their area of licensure/concentration. Topics will be differentiated by licensure to include literacy, media, classroom management, safety, assessment. Prerequisites: This is a capstone methods course; all other course work must be successfully passed before enrolling in this course. Students wishing to take it out of sequence must have written permission from the Director of Education. 30 hours field/clinical experience is required for secondary licensure candidates.