Courses

Focuses on teaching culturally and linguistically diverse secondary school students, special education students, and differentiation in the secondary classroom. Includes hands-on experiences in secondary school settings. Restricted to students admitted to the secondary or K-12 music teacher education program. Credit not granted for this course and EDUC 4351. Prerequisites: Restricted to EDEN, EDFR, EDGR, EDIT, EDJP, EDLT, EDMA, EDMU, EDSC, EDRU, EDSP, EDSS or MMED majors only.

Explores current theories of learning in mathematics and science at the secondary level. This course focuses on the interrelation between learners' conceptual and sociocultural development. Students examine their own assumptions about learning, and critically examine the needs of a diverse student population in the classroom. Prerequisites: Restricted to AMEN, ASTR, BCHM, CHEM, EBIO, GEOL, IPHY, MATH, MCDB, PHYS, Arts and Sciences Open Option majors, College of Engineering majors, or Education minors only.

Students design and implement instructional activities informed by what it means to know and learn mathematics and science, and then evaluate the outcomes of those activities on the basis of classroom artifacts. Students examine how content and pedagogy combine to make effective teaching. Same as EDUC 5060. Prerequisites: Restricted to School of Education (EDUC), Mathematics-Secondary Education (EDMA) or Science-Secondary Education (EDSC) majors only.

Analyzes fundamental psychological concepts underlying classroom instruction, as well as adolescent growth and development. Same as PSYC 4114. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomore, Junior or Senior) only.

Presents and discusses issues in secondary school curriculum, instruction, and classroom management as they play out in world language classroom. Examines, analyzes, and evaluates a variety of teaching strategies, their effectiveness for students, and teacher dispositions to facilitate learning. Includes in-school experiences. Restricted to students admitted to the secondary teacher education program. Prerequisites: Restricted to EDEN, EDFR, EDGR, EDIT, EDJP, EDLT, EDMA, EDMU, EDSC, EDRU, EDSP, EDSS or MMED majors only.

Explores the relationship between language and learning with the goal of developing teaching practices that engage students in using language as a tool for understanding and constructing meaning across the curriculum. Explores how language/literacy take on different forms and functions in different social contexts and academic disciplines. Restricted to students admitted to the secondary teacher education program. Same as EDUC 5235. Prerequisites: Restricted to undergraduate Science-Secondary Education (EDSC) or Mathematics-Secondary Education (EDMA) majors only.

Examines ways in which adolescents develop literacy through reading, writing, speaking, viewing, and listening. Students learn to plan and organize literacy instruction based on ongoing assessment, to draw on and develop learner's linguistic skills related to reading, to support learner's reading comprehension skills, and to support their learning through oral language development. Prerequisites: Restricted to undergraduate English - Secondary Education (EDEN) or English - Secondary Education (EDSS) majors only.

Fosters understandings of diverse students' writing processes and the development of a repertoire of research-based teaching practices. Emphasizes writing as a tool for both developing and communicating understandings across a range of settings. Restricted to students admitted to the English or Social Studies teacher education program. Same as EDUC 5345. Prerequisites: Restricted to undergraduate English - Secondary Education (EDEN) or English - Secondary Education (EDSS) majors only.