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(12 hours) Prerequisites: Admission to Clinical Practice. An intensive field-based experience that includes observation, participation and supervised teaching in a middle grades classroom (grades 5-8) for sixty (60) full days (two placements of six weeks each). The clinical practitioner works with an Expanded SCTS 4.0 certified teacher and university supervisor to develop and implement an integrated curriculum that is designed to meet the social, emotional, physical, and cognitive needs of students in the classroom. The clinical practitioner becomes a member of a teaching team that includes classroom teachers, special area teachers, staff, administrators, parents/guardians, community agencies, professional consultants, school volunteers, and students from diverse cultural backgrounds. Demonstrated proficiency in the four domains of the South Carolina Teacher Standards identified by the state-mandated Expanded SCTS 4.0 performance evaluation instrument is required. Professional seminars