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Practicum - Instructions for Culminating
Project
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Practicum students
complete a 25-page culminating project. Students review their
experiences in the graduate program and discuss components of the
program that have been of particular value to them and why these program
components have been of value. Students discuss their practicum
observation lessons, including strengths and limitations of the lessons,
and what was discussed during the practicum conferences with the
observing professor, including recommendations for strengthening
teaching skills and building positive relationships with children.
Students use at least five articles from scholarly journals as
references for a discussion of problems facing new teachers (in both
general and special education), and the kinds of documented supports
that have been found to help new teachers effectively respond to such
problems.
Students also present a
case study of their work with an individual child. Students work with a
child who has a particular problem involving reading skills. Students
use an appropriate reading inventory or other assessment device to
evaluate the nature of the child’s difficulties. Students complete a
literature review with abstracts of at least ten articles related to the
area of the child’s reading difficulty and potential interventions fro
remediation of the identified problem or set of problems. Students
describe in detail their goals in intervening and the specific
intervention procedures they use, after which they describe the actual
application of the intervention procedures and the child’s response to
their intervention. Students do a post-intervention assessment to
determine the effectiveness of the intervention and then discuss the
implications of their work and results for continued work with the child
and for formulating related additional research questions. (Practicum
advisors will distribute and discuss instructions for the case study
during the first practicum group meeting).
Students conclude their
projects with a discussion of how their philosophies of education have
developed over the course of their graduate studies and the nature of
their current ideas on how they might approach selected aspects of their
work. Throughout the culminating project, readings from courses should
be integrated into the discussion whenever possible.
Papers should have
title pages that include all identifying information. Where
appropriate, subheadings should be used for organizational purposes.
Pages should be numbered. Papers should follow
APA format. (APA sheets are included in your student practicum
guide).
Culminating projects
are submitted with other practicum materials in a professionally
appropriate binder. (Details may be discussed with our practicum
advisors).
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