Instruction and Assessment

Catalog description

Teacher candidates are working towards a B.A. in Elementary Education (K-6).  This course provides an in-depth examination and practice of a variety of instructional planning, implementation (teaching), and assessment strategies in the inclusive classroom.  The course helps candidates understand and begin to develop their ability to effectively teach, organize, and manage a learning community classroom and to design and implement culturally responsive instruction and assessment.  Standards, philosophies, theories, and teaching and learning principles that underpin inclusive elementary education are revealed to enable teacher candidates to begin developing a personal philosophy of how children learn and what teachers need to do to support and assess their learning.  Candidates further their knowledge of the Danielson Framework for Teachers, are introduced to writing lesson plans, and observe and examine different teaching strategies to enhance student learning.  Teacher candidates will design, review, and reflect on the results of varied assessments of student learning that are typically used in the elementary inclusive classroom.  This course includes a mandatory clinical component in an elementary school, literacy-based classroom setting. During these clinical visits, they will practice teaching individual students, a small group, and/or a whole class.