AE 4255 - Student Teaching: Elementary

Credits: 6

Field experience hours: 300 clock hours in a Denver Metro area public or private secondary school setting. This is an extended field experience practicum and mentorship completed during the final term of the AE program. The student teacher spends eight weeks in an elementary school setting. The student teacher is observed, guided, and coached by a cooperating teacher in the accredited public or private school and a supervising teacher from the college. The cooperating teacher has a minimum of three years experience in teaching art. Responsibility for taking over the teaching by the RMCAD student teacher is gradually increased, allowing growth in a safe, supervised environment. The student teacher keeps a reflective journal and learning portfolio as an assessment instrument and a future resource. Feedback is consistently given and documented.

Prerequisites: AE 3264 - Methods of Art Education, K-12 Part II, 200 Field Experience Hours completed, Fingerprint and CBI Background Check cleared.

Corequisites: AE 4933 - Student Teaching Seminar Part I or AE 4934 - Student Teaching Seminar Part II.

Notes: A summative evaluation of the student teacher’s performance establishes proficiencies, which are translated into a Pass/Fail grade. AE 4930 Student Teaching Seminar is taken concurrently. (Formerly AE 4250)

Course Learning Outcomes:

Students will learn K-12 instruction that is aligned with the Colorado Academic Standards; their district’s organized plan of instruction; and the individual needs of their students.
Students will learn knowledge of K-12 student literacy development in reading, writing, speaking and listening.
Students will demonstrate mathematics in K-12 Visual Arts and understand how to promote K-12 student development in numbers and operations, algebra, geometry and measurement and data analysis and probability.
Students learn K-12 art content, central concepts, tools of inquiry, appropriate evidence-based instructional practices and specialized character of the visual arts being taught.
Students will learn K-12 lessons that reflect the interconnectedness of content areas/disciplines.
Students learn how to make instruction and content relevant to students and take actions to connect students’ background and contextual knowledge with new information being taught.
Students will learn strategies foster a predictable learning environment in the classroom in which each student has a positive, nurturing relationship with caring adults and peers.
Students will learn how to demonstrate a commitment to and respect for diversity, while working toward common goals as a community and as a country.
Students will learn how to engage students as individuals with unique interests and strengths.
Students will learn how to adapt their teaching to benefit all students, including those with special needs across a range of ability levels.
Students will learn how to provide proactive, clear and constructive feedback to families about student progress and work collaboratively with the families and significant adults in the lives of their students.
Students will learn to create a learning environment characterized by acceptable student behavior, efficient use of time and appropriate intervention strategies.
Students will learn current K-12 developmental science, the ways in which learning takes place and the appropriate levels of intellectual, social and emotional development of their students.
Students will plan and practice delivering instruction that draws on results of student assessments, is aligned to academic standards and advances students’ level of content knowledge and skills.
Students will learn current research on effective instructional practices to meet the developmental and academic needs of K- 12 students.
Students will learn appropriate K-12 available technology in their instruction to maximize student learning.
Students will learn to establish and communicate high expectations for all K-12 students and plan instruction that helps students develop critical-thinking and problem solving skills.
Students will learn how to provide K-12 students with opportunities to work in teams and develop leadership qualities.
Students will learn to communicate effectively, making learning objectives clear and providing appropriate models of language for K-12.
Students will learn appropriate methods to assess what each K-12 student has learned, including formal and informal assessments, and use results to plan further instruction.
Students will learn how to analyze K-12 student learning, development and growth and apply what they learn to improve their practice.
Students will learn how to link professional growth to their professional goals.
Students will learn to respond to a complex, dynamic environment.
Students will learn strategies to exhibit leadership in their K-12 placements schools.
Students will learn how to contribute to K-12 educational practices and the teaching profession.
Students will learn systems to advocate for K-12 schools and students, partnering with students, families and communities as appropriate.
Students will learn high ethical standards in the teaching profession.
Students learn how to demonstrate high levels of K-12 student learning, growth and academic achievement.
Students will learn how to demonstrate high levels of student academic growth in the skills necessary for post secondary and workforce readiness, including democratic and civic participation. Students will learn strategies to demonstrate their ability to utilize multiple data sources and evidence to evaluate their practice, and make adjustments where needed to continually improve an attainment of student academic growth.