Exploratory Field Experience in Education.

Overview & Synopsis

The Exploratory Field Experience in Education program is a field-based program for those students who indicate that they wish to pursue a professional career in education. The aim of the program is to assist the student in making an intelligent career choice early in his college years. The program is set for the first semester of the sophomore year. Public school personnel offer their classrooms as laboratories for the college courses and serve as consultants as well as team teachers. The students serve as aides in the schools for 5 half-days a week. In addition to being in the classrooms, students attend specially designed courses entitled "American Education,""Educational Psychology--Human Development," and "Education Workshop." These courses utilize the daily activities and experiences the students find in the schools. (Author/JA)