The second year in the IB/M program is a pivotal year, one in which students focus on teaching and learning in their chosen certification area. At this point, students are learning how to design lessons and units that help their pupils develop a comprehensive knowledge base.

• They are learning how to translate what they know about subject matter into activities and learning experiences that are developmentally appropriate for a given group of students.
• They are learning how to recognize whether learning is taking place.
• They are learning how to work with blocks of instructional time that they are given in a school schedule.

In the fall of the second year, students continue with a coursework-clinic-seminar approach, but in the spring, students assemble all that they have learned and participate in student teaching, a full semester of practice in the classroom under the guidance of a cooperating teacher and a university supervisor.

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