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. They observe, document, devise, and discuss consistent teacher behaviors that produce high levels of student involvement in classroom activities and minimal amounts of student behaviors that interfere with work. Proficiencies are determined by the candidate’s ability to plan and design clear expectations about appropriate and inappropriate behavior, efficient use of time, room organization, traffic pattern, dissemination of materials, cleanup, and project storage. Study includes the teaching cycle, teacher threat cycle, positive characteristics of classroom managers, and prescriptions for effective management of the classroom and instruction. Legal rights, due process, and school governance augment the course objectives. Prerequisite: AE 2210 Introduction to Art Education; must be an Art Education major