Reflective Practice II: Student Teaching Seminar
S06, S07, F07 
Elizabeth Burris, Jonathan Pitcher
This seminar, which runs concurrently with the student-teaching practicum, serves as a forum in which students discuss their experiences in the classroom and theoretical issues raised thereby. A wide range of practical and philosophical topics are explored—through readings, class discussions, and projects—as they emerge from students’ teaching work. This course aims to deepen students’ abilities to discover solutions to the problems they confront as teachers by reflecting on their own experience, by talking to their peers, and by reading the work of educational philosophers. In doing so, it aims to provide soon-to-be teachers with a firsthand experience of the power of participating in a community of colleagues. They are also intended to extend the work begun in Senior Seminar on backward design. The culminating project is the professional portfolio required for licensure in the state of Vermont.