The Teaching Practicum I course is designed using structured field-based experiences that integrate the theory and practice of teaching in the Belizean primary school system. During this first field experience, student-teachers will get the opportunity to examine, through critical reflection, their emerging beliefs about teaching and learning and to assimilate new knowledge, insights, and understanding into their conceptual framework. Students will engage in a minimum of 15 hours of class/seminar. With a partner, student-teachers will spend a minimum of 30 hours participating in classroom experience, interacting, and shadowing schoolteachers and students (contingent on the current COVID situation).