Stockbridge High School – Early Childhood Education Practicum Academy for Advanced Studies only

Apr 2026 · 2nd Semester

The practicum offers a candidate in the Early Childhood Education career pathway a field experience under the direct supervision of a certified early childhood educator (mentor). This field experience may be used as partial requirements for the candidate to earn the nationally recognized CDA credential. The practicum stresses observing, analyzing, and classifying activities of the mentor and comparing personal traits with thoseo successful early childhood educators.The candidate intern will developa portfolioof theskills, plan and teach a lesson or lessons, understand and practice confidentiality as it pertains to the teaching profession, meet the needs of students with special needs, maintain the safety of the students, practice