Undergraduate Catalog 2024-2025

EDUC 4499 Internship III

For approximately 15 weeks, teacher candidates apply the principles, knowledge, understanding, and skills they have acquired during their entire educational program. The internship experience is performed in a carefully selected school reflecting the grade level at which certification is sought, under the direction of the college supervisor and a qualified classroom teacher. This experience culminates in the teacher candidate's assumption of a full teaching load for a number of weeks (determined with college supervisor and host teacher) and completes responsibility for all class activities normally carried out by the host teacher. However, a co-teaching model may also be used during internship III. Piedmont University offers training for schools interested in implementing this model which consists of co-planning, co-instruction, and co-assessment and culminates with the teacher candidate's assumption of the lead teacher role for several weeks.

During the time spent in the internship, the college supervisor will observe the teacher candidate on a regular basis (at least 4 times). In addition, the candidates will participate in required class sessions at the Piedmont campus. The class sessions will be scheduled across the semester. Students and the host teachers will be provided with a copy of the class schedules at the beginning of the semester. Regard these classes just as you would staff meetings, in-service training or any other meeting which a host teacher might attend during a school day.


Registration Name

Internship III

Lecture Hours

9

Lab Hours

0

Credits

9

Prerequisite

EDUC 4489

Offered

TBA

Student Learning Outcomes

Upon the completion of this internship, students will be able to:

  1. Identify student assets including personal, cultural, and community assets as well as prior academic knowledge
  2. Modify environments and experiences that meet the individual needs of all children, including children from diversity backgrounds, children with disabilities, developmental delays, linguistic differences, and special abilities
  3. Demonstrate knowledge of state standards and content competency
  4. Prepare daily, weekly, and unit lesson plans
  5. Use instructional technology, including assistive technologies for children with disabilities
  6. Evaluate self-using a variety of formal and informal assessments
  7. Examine and discuss student assessment data
  8. Analyze and use assessment data to identify learning patterns
  9. Cultivate and demonstrate professional behaviors and dispositions as described in the PBDA
  10. Demonstrate awareness of and a firm commitment to the profession's code of ethical conduct