EDU 525 Week 6 Assignment Clinical Field Experience

EDU 525 Week 6 Assignment Clinical Field Experience

Details:

Complete Clinical Field Experience Option A or B for this assignment.

Clinical Field Experience Option A: Service and Support

Allocate 6 hours to complete this clinical field experience.

Volunteer for a total of 6 hours with one or more organizations in your community that help elementary-age students and their families live healthy, more productive lives.

In 250-500-words, discuss your frames of reference (e.g., culture, gender, language, abilities and ways of knowing) and whether they changed or stayed the same based on your service activities. What expectations did you have before your experience? How have your frames of reference affected your expectations throughout this experience? Based on this experience, reflect on any takeaways that would be well-suited for teaching practices.

Examples of organizations and events that you may volunteer for during this clinical field experience could include:

·         After-school activities (e.g., Boys/Girls Club, YMCA, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Parks and Recreation

·         Emergency food programs (e.g., soup kitchens, community pantries)

·         Family shelters

·         Leadership/Mentoring programs

·         Academic support programs (e.g., community-based tutoring)

·         Habitat for Humanity

·         4-H

·         Community fairs

APA format is not required, but solid academic writing is expected.

You are not required to submit your reflection to Turnitin.

Document your time on the Clinical Field Experience Verification Form accessed in Taskstream. You will submit the completed Clinical Field Experience Verification Form to Taskstream with your Benchmark Assignment during the last week of this course.

 

Clinical Field Experience Option B: School and Community Resources

Allocate a total of 6 hours to complete this clinical field experience.

Imagine you are a parent of an elementary-age student and you have recently moved to your neighborhood. Spend 6 hours investigating the following:

1.     The nearest public, private, and charter elementary schools;

2.     Before- and after-school activities offered for elementary-age students at the schools identified above;

3.     How well these before- and after-school activities promote intellectual, social, emotional, and physical growth of elementary-age students;

4.     Community resources that provide services to elementary-age students; and

5.     How well these community resources promote intellectual, social, emotional, and physical growth of elementary-age students.

In 250-500-words, discuss your findings and reflect on your frames of reference (e.g., culture, gender, language, abilities and ways of knowing) and whether they changed or stayed the same during your investigation of the schools and community resources. What expectations did you have before this investigation? How have your frames of reference affected your expectations throughout this investigation? Based on your findings, reflect on any takeaways that would be well suited for teaching practices.

APA format is not required, but solid academic writing is expected.

You are not required to submit your reflection to Turnitin.

Document your time on the Clinical Field Experience Verification Form accessed in Taskstream. You will submit the completed Clinical Field Experience Verification Form to Taskstream with your Benchmark Assignment during the last week of this course.