Science in the Diverse Classroom Birth-Grade 2/Childhood 1-6/Adolescent 7-12

Catalog description

This course is designed to prepare teacher candidates in science content as well as science education. The teacher candidate will learn to develop learning experiences and conduct assessments reflecting the processes of growth and development of the child. They will develop the skills needed to plan and implement a differentiated series of active investigations with special emphasis given to understanding the science discovery method and science processing skills in preschool, elementary, middle grades, and adolescence. Attention is given to planning and teaching scientific tasks and activities including enrichment and remediation for students who are culturally diverse, those with limited English proficiency and those with special needs. The aim is to promote a sense of relatedness of science to other content areas, as well as to people and their daily problems. Students will relate science to literature, contemporary events, research, technology, safety and gain awareness that science is a lifelong way of thinking and investigating. Additionally, teaching science literacy skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing to native English speakers and students who are English Language Learners, including methods of enrichment and remediation, will be addressed.