LAE 3324C - Middle Grades Practicum I: Composition

4 credit(s)
Prerequisite(s): Admission into the Bachelor of Science in Education program or special permission from the Dean of the School of Education; and prior to enrolling in any upper level course (course number beginning with a 3 or 4), students must complete the following courses with a grade of “C” or better: ENC 1101 English Composition I, ENC 1102 English Composition II, and three semester hours of college level mathematics; or permission from the appropriate academic dean.
Required: This course requires 35 hours of practicum in a 5-9 classroom setting over a minimum of eight weeks.
This course is designed to prepare teacher candidates to teach composition in grades 5-9. Teacher candidates will survey various composition styles and rhetorical methods. Writing workshop methodology will be applied to standards-based language arts instruction. Research and methods on dialect diversity, development of semantics and the teaching of Standard English grammar will be considered as lessons are created. This course requires thirty-five hours of practicum in a 5-9 classroom setting.