Classroom Practice 1

Catalog description

This course provides support for teachers working to build or deepen their pedagogical skills via individualized advising, coaching, research, implementation, and reflective practice. Participants will engage in a targeted cycle of inquiry around their classroom practice, setting data-informed goal, investigating, implementing and documenting relevant strategies, tools, processes and resources, reflecting upon new learning and emerging goals, and surfacing a new goal or goals for further study. Possible areas of study may include: Developing and maintaining the classroom as a strong, collaborative learning community; Setting and assessing standards for quality work; Targeting skills and dispositions within curriculum frameworks; Designing student-centered learning experiences that address subject area standards through a meaningful context for learning; and Using the Experiential Learning Cycle as a framework for understanding teaching and learning. This course may be paired with EDT-5502: Critical Skills Immersion 1 - Foundations and EDT-5504 Critical Skills Immersion 2 - Applications; or EDT-5500: Critical Skills Classroom Immersion.