{"id":29,"date":"2010-01-25T14:47:09","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T14:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bateseducation.wordpress.com\/?page_id=29"},"modified":"2018-12-07T10:48:53","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T15:48:53","slug":"field-experience","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/education\/academics\/field-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Field experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/education\/files\/2010\/01\/120404_Geiger_Shapiro_0481-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1311\" title=\"Miranda Shapiro '15 of New York City works with a fourth grader in Lewiston's Geiger School as part of her course work for an education class.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/education\/files\/2010\/01\/120404_Geiger_Shapiro_0481-2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/education\/files\/2010\/01\/120404_Geiger_Shapiro_0481-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/education\/files\/2010\/01\/120404_Geiger_Shapiro_0481-2.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>As part of its larger mission, all courses in the Department of Education include a 30-hour field placement component.<\/p>\n<p>In coordination between department faculty, students, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/\">The Harward Center for Community Partnership<\/a>, students are placed in local school and community settings and complete community-based learning projects designed to encourage the integration of theory and practice and address the interests of community members and organizations.\u00a0 Course assignments offer students an opportunity to reflect systematically on the larger questions surrounding educational structures and practices raised through field experiences.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Off-Campus\u00a0Study Planning<\/h3>\n<p>Students may apply to have an off-campus program or course to count as one of the six required Education courses as part of their planned programs.\u00a0 Because such requests require the prior approval of the Department of Education faculty, students must complete proposal forms and their secondary concentration applications <em>before<\/em> they leave campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of its larger mission, all courses in the Department of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":963,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_prepend":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append_before_footer":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-29","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1927,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions\/1927"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}