Course Catalog

This course engages interns in the study of how PK-6 teachers use curriculum materials to support student learning goals. Interns will gain a familiarity with an array of curriculum materials and tools as well as how to modify and adapt these resources to meet the needs of their students. Additionally, interns will learn how to evaluate curriculum materials and identify their various strengths and weaknesses.

This course will build on concepts of motivation and multimodal learning through the arts (visual, musical, and dance) and the development of imagination and active learning processes across the curriculum. Interns will learn how to support their students’ emerging social, emotional, cognitive and physical development from early childhood to pre-adolescence in inclusive, multicultural, culturally responsive ways.

Focuses on core literacy teaching in secondary content areas. The focus is on teaching children and adolescents how to learn academic language and content while they are developing academic English language proficiency. Emphasis on teaching multilingual learners.

This course is designed to present secondary-level world language teaching methodology and techniques for initiating, guiding, and evaluating learning and teaching activities in the world language classroom. Building on your knowledge gleaned from your methods course in your teaching major, we will explore various ways in which we can create powerful learning experiences for students, including individual lesson plans, unit plans, projects and assessment tools. The course is intended for students for whom a world language is their teaching minor or second major.

Presents teaching methodology for initiating, guiding, and evaluating learning activities in the secondary world language classroom.  Explores how students learn a second language; essential elements of a classroom (reading, writing, speaking, culture); and the process for creating learning experiences for 7-12 students.  Examines pertinent contributions from research.

This course explores objectives, methods, and content in PK-6 science instruction, emphasizing concept development in several areas of PK-6 science; refers to pertinent contributions from research; provides opportunity for engaging in core teaching practices around investigation-based science lessons.

Briefly surveys the place of science in the secondary school curriculum; works on analysis and evaluation of instructional objectives; considers modern practices in teaching science; examines pertinent contributions from research.

Presents the tools, materials, and experiences suited to helping the elementary teacher provide an opportunity for the creative growth of children.

Through their practice with Intergroup Dialogue in the context of four social studies disciplines, interns learn key orientations and skills needed to realize bell hooks' vision by (a) understanding social and historical issues that shape students in their classrooms and (b) framing education - in this case, social studies - as liberatory. This course foregrounds learning the orienting framework and practices of Intergroup Dialogue and ways of thinking across social studies disciplines (civics/political science, economics, geography, history) while delving into pedagogy to support civic discourse, inquiry and investigation, deliberation of multiple perspectives, decision making and action.

This course focuses on how to teach civic engagement, four major disciplines of social studies, and the early childhood foundations for these understandings. This course emphasizes four core teaching practices to support inquiry, investigation, and discourse: eliciting and interpreting student thinking, setting up and managing small group work, leading discussions, and explaining and modeling content/practices/strategies. This course foregrounds pedagogy and extends interns’ learning about the subject they teach through assignments grounded in interns’ field placements.

Prerequisites: Concurrent or previous election of EDUC 391 or equivalent.

Investigates general and specific instructional objectives in the secondary school social studies curriculum, trends in methods, materials and their uses, provisions for individual differences, evaluation of pupil progress, and procedures useful for curriculum construction and improvement. Examines pertinent contributions from research.

This is a required methods course for Teacher Education students minoring in history or a social science. It builds on methods courses in other content areas by focusing on purposes, and pedagogical practices essential for helping secondary students learn social studies.

Examines national, state, and local curriculum standards for elementary social studies; the relationship between social science disciplines and the elementary curriculum; multicultural perspectives on teaching and learning, and the effects of curricular, instructional, and assessment patterns on children’s understanding of social studies concepts and methods. Students also will learn to review and critique studies on social studies teachers’ practices and children’s learning.

Prerequisites: Concurrent election of EDUC 307

An examination of the practical issues surrounding English instruction in secondary school. Designed for prospective teachers of English.

Addresses characteristics of student exceptionalities, principles and practices for effective planning, instruction, and assessment of all elementary students, as well as legal, ethical, and professional responsibilities of the elementary classroom teacher.

Undergraduate or Graduate credit. Repeatable for 3 credits.