Educational Theory and Practice III: English

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This course is designed to accompany the English MAT spring semester student teaching placement, with an aim to connect research with an experience, workshop, or record of practice to help students understand, implement, question and revise the practice in their own classrooms. Particular areas of focus include independent teaching in the linguistically and culturally diverse high school English classroom; practices for setting up the heterogeneous high school English classroom; classroom management; diagnostic assessment of student learning; understanding your position as a teacher and the context of your school; creating a professional learning community; and methods of teaching English with technology.