EDEC 3385 - Action Research: Home, School, and Community Relations

Credits: 3

Introduces teacher candidates to procedures and strategies for action research with a focus on diverse home, school, and community relationships relative to the middle school classroom. Teacher candidates complete 120 hours of field-based experiences in an Early Childhood setting appropriate to their licensure areas under the supervision of qualified university and school-based faculty. During this field placement, candidates teach lessons and develop and implement a relevant action research project, resulting in an action research report that includes a problem statement, literature review, data collection, analysis, and summary/application using appropriate technologies.Field experiences are arranged by the Department of Teacher Education in cooperation with partner districts.Prereq: EDEC 2283 and EDEC 2284 and EDEC 2289 and EDEC 2290. Admission in Level 2 Teacher Ed.Coreq: EDUC 3310 and EDRE 3305 $