The goals of this practicum are to prepare students with the competencies necessary for a positive teaching career, provide hands-on experience with lesson planning and instructional practices, and to prepare students for doing assessment and evaluation and classroom management. It is to build on prior coursework in methodology, first and second-language acquisition, linguistics and cross-cultural communication. This course includes observations at an assigned field placement, two detailed lesson plans with materials, a statement of teaching philosophy, a letter of introduction to be distributed to the candidates' classes during their student teaching, one recorded micro teaching demonstration, and a presentation and research paper.