Fieldwork hours are designed to improve students’ observational and instructional skills in preparation for student teaching and practicum experiences. The courses listed below will require completion of fieldwork hours. The course instructor will provide guidelines for the field
experience.

• CEDF 709: Child Development (5 hours)
  
• CEDC 704: Teaching Developmental Reading (10 hours)
  
• CEDC 705: Mathematics Curriculum and Methods (10 hours)
  
• CEDC 700: Effective Teaching Practices (5 hours)
  
• CEDF 710:  Educational Psychology (5 hours)
  
• CEDC 715FW: Fieldwork in Reading and Social Studies (75 hours)
  

 All fieldwork will take place in a Hunter College selected site.  A guidebook of cooperating schools will help our students to find placement for their fieldwork hours.  Students in CEDC 715FW, however, will be placed by the Fieldwork Coordinator in a school for this requirement.

Student Teaching and Practicum

Students in the M.S. in Childhood Education program must complete intensive supervised classroom experiences in grades 1-3 and 4-6.   Depending on the students situation, this requirement can be satisfied in one of three ways:

Students who are not already working as elementary teachers will take:

CEDC 724 Student Teaching in Grades 1-3 and 4-6
(30 hrs. of seminar plus 56-60 days of student teaching)

Students who are already working as teachers in grades 1-3 will take:

CEDC 727 Practicum in Grades 1-3
(30 hrs. of seminar plus supervision and conferences)

and

CEDC 726 Student Teaching in Grades 4-6
(30 hrs. of seminar and 25 days of student teaching)

Students who are already working as teachers in grades 4-6 will take:

CEDC 728 Practicum in Grades 4-6
(30 hrs. of seminar plus supervision and conferences)

and

CEDC 725 Student Teaching in Grades 1-3
(30 hrs. of seminar and 25 days of student teaching)