Teaching and Learning Social Studies in the Secondary School and Field Experience II

Catalog description

This course is integrated with a field experience. In the context of a real classroom, teacher candidates learn how to plan for and assess student learning in history and social sciences. With a focus on content knowledge, teacher candidates 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 designs, enacts, and assesses activities that advance student understanding to more complex levels. Teacher candidates gain experience in monitoring the obstacles and barriers that some students or groups of students face in school and learn how to design learning experiences to support all learners. A multi-day, consistent schedule in the field experience classroom is established by the course instructor in consultation with the teacher candidate and cooperating teacher. Prerequisite: HIS 304 ; HIS 402 , HIS 403 , or concurrent enrollment; admission to teacher education. Consent of department. Offered Fall, Spring.