Graduate Catalog 2022-2023

SPED 7745 Advanced Internship II

Each internship is conducted in a semester-long format with periodic seminars. This experience, based in a public school, emphasizes the application and integration of developmental and instructional principles in a collaborative setting. Students will be jointly supervised by University faculty and the employing school. This is a Pass or Fail course. 

For students enrolled in each of the internship courses the following must occur:

  1. Be teaching on a non-renewable certificate in Special Education General Curriculum at a school within 50 miles of the Athens campus, unless otherwise approved by the Dean of the College of Education.
  2. Have a completed application for an internship approved prior to registration for SPED 7744

  3. Have completed an unconditional acceptance to Teacher Education and hold a pre- service certificate prior to enrollment in SPED 7744.

 

Registration Name

Advanced Internship II

Lecture Hours

5

Lab Hours

0

Credits

5

Offered

Fall and Spring

Student Learning Outcomes

During Advanced Internship the Advanced Intern will:

  1. research and leverage student assets including personal, cultural, and community assets as well as prior academic knowledge;
  2. create and modify environments and experiences to meet the individual needs of all children, including children from diversity backgrounds, children with disabilities, developmental delays, linguistic differences, and special abilities;
  3. develop an atmosphere conducive to student learning and one which gives evidence of effective class control and student management in a democratic classroom; e
  4. deconstruct state standards and curriculum resources to prepare and teach daily, weekly, and unit lesson plans based on developmentally appropriately depth and breadth;
  5. evaluate and utilize scholarly research and articles in order to inform instructional practices;
  6. use instructional technology, including assistive technologies for children with disabilities;
  7. evaluate students and self-using a variety of summative and formative assessments;
  8. aggregate and/or disaggregate assessment data to identify learning patterns and inform planning and instruction;
  9. cultivate and demonstrate professional behaviors and dispositions as described in the PBDA;
  10. and demonstrate awareness of and a firm commitment to the profession’s code of ethical conduct.