Semester 7

Literacy-Focused Practicum

This course is a practical experience in fostering early language, communication, and literacy skills within an early childhood educational setting. Emphasis is on working directly with young children, ages 3 to 6 to support mastery of Liberia’s early learning standards through programmatic planning and teacher-student engagement.

Semester 7

Literacy and Creative Arts Practicum

This course is a practical experience working with students in the primary grades, helping them develop basic language arts and reading skills through arts integration and engagement with different types of texts, writing forms and structures. This practicum is completed concurrently with PEDU 401 Creative Arts (Music, Visual, Performance) and PEDU 403 Language Arts, K-6.

Semester 7

Language Arts, K-6

This course presents an integrated approach to teaching English language arts based on current research of best practices, instructional methodologies, materials, and assessment techniques. Course content is based on developmental processes and assessment that focuses on the interrelatedness of all English language arts areas, including reading, writing, listening, speaking, viewing, and producing texts, broadly defined.

Semester 7

Internships K-6 Grade

Internship in Kindergarten-6th Grade is the culminating Professional Experience course that is a supervised teacher aspirant or student experience during which the teacher aspirant or student gradually assumes full responsibility of managing, planning, teaching and assessing in a primary grades classroom.

Semester 7

Internship in Early Childhood Education (ECE)

Internships in Early Childhood Education is the culminating Professional Experience course that is a supervised student teacher experience during which the teacher aspirant or student gradually assumes full responsibility of managing, planning, teaching, and assessing in an early childhood learning environment.

Semester 7

Creative Arts (Music, Visual, Performance)

This course covers foundational knowledge and skills in visual art, music, drama, and media, and how to integrate them into the early childhood and primary education language arts and literacy, math, science, and social studies curriculum.