Course Description
Integration of practice and theory through application of contemporary, applied, and direct teaching strategies. Students will enhance their teaching effectiveness by engaging in a program of planned self-evaluation. They will identify areas for improvement, use and employ methods and standards they define, and use tools to improve their teaching.
Athena Title
TCH TREND WKFORC ED
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in EOCS 8200 or WFED 8200E
Prerequisite
Permission of department
Semester Course Offered
Offered spring
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
The objective of this course is to develop students (inservice teachers) who are able to: 1. Demonstrate conceptualization, development, and application of specific learning and teaching strategies for all learners at various developmental stages. 2. Demonstrate mastery of urban, rural, and suburban education issues and ability to construct appropriate, positive learning activities to achieve equity in their classrooms. 3. Demonstrate mastery as reflective practitioners who can evaluate the effects of their choices and actions and who actively seek opportunities to grow professionally. 4. Demonstrate mastery of contempary instructional concepts, tools of inquiry, technology, and structure of their content area of discipline. 5. Demonstrate mastery sufficient to provide learning opportunities that support intellectual, moral, social, and personal development for learners. 6. Assess, plan, implement, and evaluate instruction based on subject matter, learner needs, community, and curriculum goals.
Topical Outline
1. Current instructional strategies and tools for engagement at elementary through post-secondary instructional levels 2. Interactive instructional elements of content, methods, sequence and context 3. Teacher leadership and self-evaluation, including teachers as reflective practitioners 4. Current instructional issues in urban, suburban, and rural education 5. Current strategies for teaching across cultures and creating inclusive classrooms 6. Review and application of master teaching strategies