This course is required of students in the third year of the Teacher Preparation Studies Program. Students will examine the theories of learning, memory, thinking and language within an educational institution. Students will continue learning teaching methodology, lesson plan development, and classroom management and teacher observation. Students will develop the skills to analyze and evaluate individual performance. The student will devote more time to peer tutoring as well as “practice” teaching in elementary, middle schools and community organizations in Hartford. The student may also work as a teacher assistant to a Hartford Public Schools teacher. This experience will become the students “Capstone Experience”. The purpose of this independent study is to provide all TPS seniors with the opportunity to apply the theory and skills they have learned to design and complete an independent project, portfolio, internship or research in an area of interest in the field of Education.