This seminar accompanies the student teaching internship and meets on a weekly basis for discussion and reflection of the interns’ clinical experiences. Students will examine the student teaching experience, analyze problem situations, and learn how to affect change. Professionals from local schools will be invited to discuss how to get a job and how to live as a teacher. The course will bring together content knowledge, professional dispositions/caring, instructional methods, assessment strategies, collaboration, diversity, classroom management, and technology. It is a senior capstone course. MAT 900 will utilize prior course assignments and assessments to assist candidates in developing their edTPA portfolio. MAT 900 is a seminar in which students will reflect on teaching and their plans for future learning, finalize their performance/professional portfolio.
- Teacher: Nancy Vitalone-Raccaro