HIED 6650: Yearlong Clinical Experience I

3 Credit Hours
Concurrent: EDUC 6610
This course is the first semester of an intensive and extensive co-teaching yearlong clinical experience in history education. Under the guidance of a collaborating teacher and university supervisor and working in a classroom environment that includes students with exceptionalities and English learners, candidates practice professional competencies that impact student achievement. This experience includes regularly scheduled professional seminars.

Course Learning Outcomes
Students who successfully complete this course will be able to:

Demonstrate mastery of the social science content applicable to successful secondary teaching.
Plan, implement, and evaluate social studies lessons that meet the needs of diverse learners and special needs students.
Choose, adapt and coordinate materials, technology and methods to facilitate student learning.
Develop a classroom environment conducive to the success of all learners.
Use appropriately the various types of assessment instruments common in social studies courses, including traditional and alternative assessments, so as to discern and interpret student progress and uses those assessments to inform instructional content as well as to provide feedback to students.
Use the NCSS thematic and pedagogical standards, the Georgia Performance Standards, and current research to inform teaching and curriculum decisions.
Engage in on-going reflection to assess and refine instruction.
Demonstrate professional behavior and a collaborative, collegial work ethic; communicate effectively with all stakeholders in ways that enhance student learning.
Provide students with opportunities to acquire the knowledge, skills, capabilities, and dispositions associated with social studies in order to become productive members of society.