Secondary School Teaching and Monitoring of Learning

Catalog description

This course fosters the professional knowledge, skills, and dispositions required for teaching and licensure. It addresses state and national standards (e.g., horizontal and vertical articulation, cognitive demand, and content-specific practices), describes various assessment formats and tools, and discusses the role that assessment plays in curriculum, teaching, and learning. Special emphasis is placed on the use of assessment data to inform instruction and the implementation of cycles of planning, teaching, assessing, and reflecting centered on student learning. The course situates assessment within the larger socio-political context and discusses legal and practical implications for students, teachers, and schools (e.g., standardized assessments, report cards, teacher evaluation systems, and induction years assessments).