Professos S. Carpenter, P. Fiume, & T. Seddio

This learning community links Student Teaching (EDC 9105, 2P, 18274),  a workshop course focused on art education which also has a field component (EDC 22, 2P, 16771), and an integrative seminar (EDC 5050, 1P, 20128).  EDC 9105 is typically the first student teaching course taken by early childhood/child care majors within Kingsborough’s Education Program. A main focus of EDC 9105 is for students to design and carry-out lessons with small groups of children at their student teaching field placements. EDC 22 is a co-requisite with EDC 9105 where students learn how to design and carry-out activities with children. Students then implement the philosophy and practical skills developed in the art education course (EDC 2200) at the field placements associate with EDC 9105 (as well as carrying out art activities at an independent site associated with EDC 22). The integrative seminar of the learning community functions to expand students understanding related to their student teaching including art education and works to enable students to make explicit the connections among the courses in the link. Objectives, goals, topics and issues of pedagogy inherent to these courses are intrinsically linked to the overall philosophy that Kingsborough’s Education Program promotes and advocates for: learning through play, hands-on activities, creativity, and student centered learning.