EDPI 4385 - Teacher Education Capstone I

The first semester of the capstone experience is taken concurrently with the methods courses, EDPI 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 in grades Prek through 5th. 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. The capstone project will be completed in EDPI4386-Teacher Education Capstone II, in the subsequent semester. Content will include prek-5th grades.

Credits: 1

Prereq: Teacher Education Level 3 Admission
Coreq: EDPI 4425 and EDPI 4426
Lecture hours: 1
Course/lab fee: S