Childhood Math Teaching Methods

Catalog description

This course is designed to help provide beginning elementary school teachers with the opportunity to develop curriculum materials and plan instruction for teaching mathematics for students within the full range of abilities including students with disabilities, at risk, and ELLs. Candidates will use formal and informal methods of assessment to design effective differentiated instruction to improve student learning. They will include creative and appropriate use of technology as a tool to enhance student learning in mathematics. Candidates will also articulate a personal development plan to improve their own performance in mathematics and to expand their own teaching repertoire to facilitate student achievement. This course also includes content for career, family, and consumer sciences. Fieldwork is required.