Best Practices for Teaching

Catalog description

This course will develop the ability to apply skills and competencies in the P-12 classroom while creating a safe and supportive learning environment that emphasizes high expectations for all students, to maximize student learning. Students will learn to plan high impact instruction that will include the following topics: cognitive science, differentiation, student-centered instruction, growth mindset, deep and probing questions, concrete with abstract, non-linguistic representation, interleaving, distributed practice, and high quality feedback.