Elementary Methods: Learning to Teach

Catalog description

This course focuses on how to plan and teach, using the learning standards as both bodies of knowledge and ways of asking and answering questions, in ways that contribute meaning to the lives of children and their families. Students are provided models for instructional planning and teaching that incorporates different approaches to learning and integrates technology as both content and tool. The "Caring Classroom" is presented as a context for teaching and learning that is both accepting and empowering. Literacy is examined both from the perspective of students for whom learning to read is an emergent process and those for whom literacy is difficult to attain and requires direct instruction.