Differential Instruction and Assessment

Catalog description

This course examines instruction and assessment through the lens of best practices using a knowledge base for designing qualitatively different instruction for students with different levels of abilities, interests, and learning profiles. Students will learn strategies to address the needs of students by reflecting on their teaching practices and determining the best approach. Students will construct tools, formative and summative, to assess mastery of learning standards. Students will utilize their knowledge of students, standards, and assessments to ensure effective teaching and appropriate assessments are used to establish mastery. (Course includes 10 hours of field experience).