Instructional Design and Assessment

Catalog description

This course provides teacher candidates with opportunities to apply learning theories and frameworks, developmentally appropriate learner engagement, project-planning, and content expertise in designing instruction that utilizes Backwards Design principles. Students will consider aspects of 21st Century learning design, incorporating appropriate media and technologies in their unit planning process, to engage and enhance learning opportunity. Additionally, the purpose, uses, and intentionality one should take in planning and administering assessment with a focus on learning will be considered. The opportunity to engage in the creation of lesson and unit plans, with intentional planning to utilize assessment instruments for both formative and summative evaluation that is aligned to learning outcomes, will be emphasized. Components: Class Prereqs/Coreqs: P: TEACHING 1230 and sophomore standing Typically Offered: Fall - Spring