Placement - Collaboration and Teaming

Catalog description

This course is designed to help candidates build foundational knowledge and skills in teaching to create conditions for equitable outcomes in their classrooms. Candidates will engage in best practices around collaborating with peers and colleagues in the field, they will gain content knowledge and understand the need to implement high-yield instructional strategies to foster student learning and growth. From the modern Social Studies classroom lens, candidates will participate in experiential learning to develop instructional planning and implementation skills. These skills include developing clear and appropriate objectives based on content standards, strong modeling, guided instruction, and effective checks for understanding (including best practices for effective questioning techniques and equitable participation). Utilizing interdisciplinary collaboration, teaming, and alignment across Reach courses and job-embedded experiences, candidates will demonstrate an understanding of educational vision, classroom culture, instructional and content knowledge, classroom procedures, and communicating clear directions and expectations for student mastery. GE Categories: Development, Education and Pedagogy, Regional and Global Awareness Reach University Course Catalog 2026-27 4