Course Catalog

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

This course is designed for future middle and high school teachers of mathematics to develop an understanding of proof appropriate for equitable, just teaching, namely one that disrupts patterns of marginalization and the erroneous attribution of smartness. It focuses on collective proving and considers implications for teaching.

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

Discusses pertinent aspects of recent pedagogical and research literature, as well as new instructional materials, methods, and curricular trends and regarding procedures useful for constructing and improving curricular units.

In this course, interns will learn how to design a classroom culture and community (their sphere of influence) where their relational, instructional, management and “discipline” practices don’t reproduce, but rather disrupt patterns of punishment and erasure of minoritized students, and support a culturally responsive, culturally competent approach to instruction, discipline and management. Attention will be paid to meeting the needs of the whole child through a strengths-based versus deficit model.

Studies elementary students as individuals who construct understanding of the world around them as they interact with others as well as the physical objects around them. This lecture course teaches how teachers can mediate this process through learning opportunities, eliciting thinking, and providing support to encourage further understanding. Furthermore, students learn to interpret student understanding, define learning goals, facilitate student understanding through modeling, and assess student understanding.

Course may be repeated up to 6 credits

This course engages interns in the study of PK-6 students as individuals who construct understanding of the world around them. This course focuses on how teachers can mediate this process through learning opportunities, eliciting thinking, and providing support to encourage further understanding. Furthermore, interns learn to interpret student understanding, define learning goals, facilitate student understanding through modeling, and assess student understanding.

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.

This course engages interns in the study of how 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.

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