The Teaching Practicum course is designed using structured field-based experiences that integrate the theory and practice of teaching in the Belizean primary school system. During this first field experience, student-teachers will get the opportunity to examine, through critical reflection, their emerging beliefs about teaching and learning and to assimilate new knowledge, insights, and understanding into their conceptual framework.
Student-teachers will engage in a minimum of fifteen (15) hours of class/seminar. With a partner, student-teachers will spend a minimum of thirty (30) hours participating in classroom experience, interacting with and observing school teachers and students. In cases where permissible, student teachers will rotate to observe exemplary teachers, thus gaining maximum experiences from various professionals.
While the clinical experience of this course is expected to be carried out with a partner, at the discretion of the institution, a student teacher may work independently. This may happen where circumstances would make it extremely challenging for the student teacher to work with a partner. Such circumstances may include, but is not limited to, the following:
• The student-teacher is working full-time in a primary school
• The student-teacher lives in a remote area
• There is an odd number of student-teachers enrolled in the course at a given time
• One partner unexpectedly withdraws from the course
- Teacher: Jeanne Link
- Teacher: Juliet Moguel
- Teacher: Floridalma Molina Zuniga
