EDPE 4385 - Teacher Capstone I

The first semester of the capstone experience is taken concurrently with the methods courses, EDPE 4425 and 4426, in the first half of the senior year. Teacher candidates are introduced to procedures and strategies of action research. Guided by the instructor, and school-based clinical faculty, teacher candidates collaboratively develop, select, administer, analyze, and interpret multiple measures of student learning, behavior, and the classroom environment to evaluate and support classroom and school-based systems of intervention for students with and without exceptionalities. The teacher candidates identify a specific issue based on the field experience and begin to plan for the capstone research project by developing the research question, phasing the problem statement, and engaging in the literature view. Grade band focus is on Prek-5th. The capstone project will be completed in EDPE 4386-Teacher Education Capstone II, in the subsequent semester.

Credits: 1

Prereq: Admission to Teacher Education Level 3 and EDUC 3310
Coreq: EDPE 4425 andEDPE 4426
Lecture hours: 1