Place-based Teaching Practices (Grades 4-12)

Catalog description

Examines the history, contexts, and forms of secondary education and their intersection with adolescent development and learning in the disciplines. Addresses how local knowledge, language, and literacies serve as tools for developing content knowledge, articulating thought, facilitating learning, and informing and shaping identities of adolescents. Focuses on development of skills for effective teaching in secondary schools, including interdisciplinary planning and teaching, collaborating in teams to support student learning, analyzing and reflecting on research-based instructional practices that work for adolescents, and facilitating discussions in the disciplines that are relevant to adolescents. Meets the WI DPI Act 31 requirement for secondary majors and the WI DPI Geography standard for SS licensure. Requires 30 hours of field experience in a high school classroom.