Secondary Methods: Learning to Teach

Catalog description

This course provides a variety of instructional strategies to facilitate learning today's secondary classrooms. Students will explore the divergent structures, schedules, student body and philosophies of contemporary secondary schools. Skills emphasized include: curriculum design, lesson planning, procedures for collaboration with peers to encourage high academic achievement and independence for all students including students with disabilities and special health-care needs, and instructional uses of technology to acquire information and to communicate to enhance learning. Formal and informal assessment of student learning and instructional practices, including "sizing up," standardized, paper and pencil, standards-based state assessments, and performance assessments and the development of appropriate rubrics will be introduced. Students will learn procedures to use assessment data to differentiate instruction for a wide range of student needs. Fieldwork is required.