Experiential Practice in Education
- Online and asynchronous
- This course will require between 7-10 hours of work per week
- Workload Rating: Standard
Course Description
This opportunity for experiential learning entails an authentic work/teaching opportunity for students enrolled in the Professional Master of Education program. The course gives students the opportunity to initiate their own practical experience involving research, teaching, and/or other professional contexts that provide learning related to their chosen concentration of study. The course will be supervised and work evaluated by an instructor, with opportunities for collaborative peer feedback and discussion as students proceed through setting up and implementing their chosen projects. The grading will be Pass/Fail.
Learning Outcomes
The primary learning outcomes for PME 878 are to:
- Design your own proposal for experiential learning on a topic of your choice
- Follow through with your proposal by actively engaging in an experiential project
- Receive feedback and support from your instructor and other students
Assessments
Draft Proposal
Module 2 (Pass/Fail)
Plan of Action
Module 3 (Pass/Fail)
Reflective Journal Update posts 1, 2, 3
Module 3 (Pass/Fail)
Final Project
Module 4 (Pass/Fail)
How does this course support learners outside K-12 teaching contexts?
In this course, each student identifies a problem of practice in their professional context then proposes and implements an inquiry-based experiential learning project to explore the identified problem. All course activities are student-driven and facilitated by the instructor, so projects are highly relevant and clearly applicable to each student's professional context.
Each student’s professional practice and goals are unique. We highly encourage students to reach out to their course instructors at the start of the term to discuss the relevance and application of course learning and assignments to their own learning goals and context of practice.