Social Studies Instruction and Assessment in Inclusive Adolescent Classrooms

Catalog description

This course is designed to prepare beginning social studies teachers with the opportunity to develop and plan instruction for teaching social studies to diverse students with a wide range of abilities. Candidates will develop, plan and teach units and lessons which demonstrate content competency in a range of social studies content. Candidates will deepen knowledge of and skill in using formal and informal methods of assessment and designing instruction to improve student learning. Candidates will demonstrate skill in creative and appropriate uses of technology to enhance student learning of social studies. Candidates will reflect on their own teaching in social studies and articulate a personal development plan to improve their knowledge and teaching repertoire to facilitate student achievement in the social studies field. Candidates will develop, plan and teach units and lessons which demonstrate content competency in a range of Social Studies content.