1 credit(s) This course accompanies EDUC 551, Teaching Internship/Residency I. The focus is to develop pre-service teachers’ critical thinking and human interaction skills in terms of problem solving classroom and school related issues. In a safe space, we aim to develop pre-service teachers’ knowledge and skills around social emotional learning of their students and build skills and practices around their own personal emotional intelligence. This course also includes building professional dispositions as foundational for a successful teaching career. This course has a career services component as well.