CIEC 5026 Professionalism for Early Childhood Educators II

This graduate seminar is for P-3 alternate route certification teacher candidates and is designed to apply learnings about professional knowledge, developmentally appropriate and constructivist practices, and reflective thinking to their P-3 classroom at their place of employment. A focus of this seminar is to provide information, support, and guidance to P-3 alternate route teacher candidates as they prepare portfolios to complete the NJ mandatory high stakes performance assessment (edTPA). Passing edTPA is one of the requirements for issuance of a NJ DOE standard P-3 teacher certification. Topics to be covered include a review of edTPA tasks and in-depth examination of rubrics and edTPA academic language. Each student will develop an edTPA portfolio demonstrating his/her teaching ability. The seminar provides for continued discussion and reflection upon teaching experiences, dispositions and professionalism with a focus on ethics. In addition to mentoring and evaluations completed by their schools/district as part of NJ Provisional certification, teacher candidates are observed a minimum of 3 times by a University coach to support their growth and development as a provisional teacher. This seminar meets for a minimum of 15 hours over the course of the semester.

Prerequisite(s): Acceptance into the P-3 specialized alternate route certificate program and permission by the department.
Credits: 1.5