Practicum in Secondary Education provides students seeking secondary certification with extensive field experience (20 hours) in a local secondary public school classroom. Students will learn to plan lessons in alignment with NCTE, NCTM, NSTA, or NCSS standards as well as with Tennessee State Curriculum Guidelines, and they will experience teaching at least three of these lessons to secondary students. ED 451 students will maintain a reflective field experience journal. Prerequisite: ** (Fall, Spring)
** In order to register for this course, a student must be accepted into the Teacher Education Program, have completed ED 201, and maintained a minimum 2.75 GPA on all education courses attempted. New transfer students who have not had an opportunity to apply to the Teacher Education Program may receive approval from the Education Department for an exemption to this prerequisite following a transcript review. Certification of students� eligibility to take Education courses above ED 201 will be evaluated on an individual basis.