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| Student Teaching Seminar | This capstone, culminating course is taken concurrently with student teaching. Student teachers share experiences, challenges, celebrations, concerns, and strategies from their student teaching assignments. The course content is based on real-life, ethnographic experiences and events that impact philosophy, theory, and practice. | Class |
| Student Teaching: Elementary | Field experience/observation hours: 300 clock hours in a public or private school setting. This is an extended field experience and mentorship. The student teacher spends a minimum of six weeks in an elementary school setting and a minimum of nine weeks in a secondary school. The student teacher has the opportunity to implement their teaching abilities in actual school classrooms. | Class |
| Student Teaching: Secondary | Field experience/observation hours: 300 clock hours in a public or private school setting. Please refer to AE4250 for the course description. Prerequisites: All AE courses, field hours completed and all required studio classes. Concurrent requisite: AE 4250 Student Teaching: Elementary and AE 4930 Student Teaching Seminar | Class |
| Classroom Management | Field experience/observation hours: 30 clock hours in a public or private school setting. The goal of this course is to enable teacher candidates to design, organize, and facilitate positive learning environments. | Class |
| Fibers Studio | Various fiber media are explored, emphasizing those with direct application to a public art school program and professional practice. On- and off-loom weaving (including handmade, strap, table or floor looms) are integrated with soft-sculpture approaches. Students learn warping of looms from 2 to 4+ harness design and investigate different fibers in relationship to these processes. | Class |
| Jewelry | This metal working and jewelry making course has an emphasis on K- 12 projects. Professional applications include basic fabricating, forging, lost-wax casting, stone setting, soldering, joining, fastening and forming, patinas and other surface treatments. At the conclusion of this course, students will understand basic jewelry techniques and develop projects for utilization in the K-12 classroom. | Class |
| Methods of Art Education, K-12 | Field experience/observation hours: 40 clock hours in a public or private school setting. This methods class puts theory and planning into practice. | Class |
| Printmaking | Students transfer their drawing skills to a variety of printmaking techniques and mediums that, in turn, have direct application to techniques, materials, and equipment appropriate to the public school and professional setting. Water-based materials are emphasized. | Class |
| Reading in the Content Area | Field experience/observation hours: 30 clock hours in a public or private school setting. | Class |
| Statistics: Assessing Learning + Teaching | Field experience/observation hours: 30 clock hours in a public or private school setting. The course introduces basic statistics principles and applies them to the purposes for and approaches to assessment, both traditional and alternative. Study includes quantitative and qualitative methods for assessing student performance in art and design, as well as, course and program effectiveness. | Class |
Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design
Denver, Colorado | 800.888.ARTS