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2025-2026 Catalog SVC 
    
2025-2026 Catalog SVC [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

ECED 499 - Student Teaching III


Credits: 10
Variable Credit Course: No

Lecture Hours: 0
Lab Hours: 0
Worksite/Clinical Hours: 330
Other Hours (LIA/Internships): 0

Course Description: Final course of a three-course series where students demonstrate all 10 InTASC standards in a Preschool-3rd grade classroom. Continue to work with a mentor teacher as you develop and demonstrate teaching competence. Students will take responsibility for leading the Preschool-3rd grade classroom.

Prerequisite: ECED 409 and ECED 498 with a C or higher.
Meets FQE Requirement: No
Integrative Experience Requirement: No

Student Learning Outcomes
  1. Implement developmentally appropriate and challenging learning experiences based on an understanding of how learning grows and develops.
  2. Create an inclusive learning environment that recognizes and intentionally supports the needs of each learner, including their learning differences and their culture.
  3. Collaborate with others, including paraeducators, families, and learners, to create environments that encourage individual and collaborative learning.
  4. Create accessible and meaningful learning experiences that utilize the central concepts, tools of inquiry, and structures of each discipline to promote content mastery.
  5. Implement lessons that use differing perspectives to engage learners in critical thinking, creativity, and collaborative problem solving related to authentic local and global issues.
  6. Use multiple assessment methods to engage learners in their own growth, to monitor learner progress, and to guide the teacher’s and learner’s decision making.
  7. Plan instruction that supports every student in meeting rigorous learning goals by drawing upon knowledge of content areas, curriculum, cross-disciplinary skills, pedagogy, knowledge of learners, and the community context.
  8. Use a variety of instructional strategies to encourage learners to develop deep understanding of content areas and to apply knowledge in meaningful ways.
  9. Adapt teaching practice to meet the needs of each learner by using evidence to evaluate their practice.
  10. Take responsibility for student learning and collaboration with learners, families, colleagues, other school professionals, and community members.

Course Contents
  1. Learning experiences based on an understanding of how learning grows and develops.
  2. Inclusive learning environment that recognizes and supports the needs of each learner, including their learning differences and their culture.
  3. Environments that encourage individual and collaborative learning.
  4. Learning experiences regarding the central concepts, tools of inquiry, and structures of each discipline to promote content mastery.
  5. Critical thinking, creativity, and collaborative problem solving related to authentic local and global issues.
  6. Assessing learners’ growth, progress, and guiding the teacher’s and learner’s decision making.
  7. Instruction that supports every student in meeting rigorous learning goals by drawing upon knowledge of content areas, curriculum, cross-disciplinary skills, pedagogy, knowledge of learners, and the community context.
  8. A variety of instructional strategies to encourage learners to develop deep understanding of content areas and to apply knowledge in meaningful ways. 
  9. Teaching practice to meet the needs of each learner by using evidence to evaluate their practice.
  10. Appropriate opportunities for student learning and to collaborate with learners, families, colleagues, other school professionals, and community members.


Instructional Units: 15