Field II Experience: Teaching and Learning English in the Secondary Classroom

Catalog description

This course focuses on critical pedagogical approaches to canonical literature in the high school English classroom. It is designed for teacher candidates who want to learn how to teach commonly-taught texts in ways that include the perspectives of women, people of color, and indigenous and/or linguistically diverse populations. Students will explore methods for teaching poetry, fiction, drama, non-fiction, and short stories by reading with and against commonly used sources. Students will learn how to weave multiple perspectives and voices into their unit planning through mindful text selection, discussion planning, technology integration, and assessment design. This course will be integrated with a field experience. In the context of a real classroom, teacher candidates will learn how to plan for and assess student learning in English. With a focus on content knowledge, teacher candidates will plan a variety of meaningful learning experiences, assess student learning, and monitor and modify instruction to best support the individual learners in the classroom. The teacher candidate will design, enact, and assess activities that advance student understanding to more complex levels. Teacher candidates will gain experience in monitoring the obstacles and barriers that some students or groups of students face in school; candidates will learn how to design learning experiences to support all learners. A multi-day, consistent schedule in the field experience classroom will be established by the course instructor in consultation with the teacher candidate and cooperating teacher. Prerequisite: ENG 355 ; concurrent enrollment in ENG 451 ; admission to the teacher education. Consent of department. Offered Fall, Spring.