Secondary Instructional Methods I

Catalog description

This course provides students with foundational, yet innovative and authentic learning experiences about teaching at the middle and high school levels. The course focuses on the most effective approaches to planning, implementing, managing, and assessing successful and effective learning experiences for 5-12 students. Through interactive discussions, examining resources, and relevant readings, students explore aspects and challenges to teaching content at the middle and high school levels. Topics include: knowing your content, knowing your students, collaborative pedagogies, cooperative learning, lesson/unit development, competency based teaching and learning, project based learning, and the reflective process. Students will be embedded in a middle school in order to learn and apply course concepts.