Curriculum planning, implementation, and assessment for teaching
middle grades students. A supervised field experience is
included.
Additional Requirements for Graduate Students: Students in the graduate section of this course will complete an additional project. These project options will include an Annotated Bibliography: A total of 15 citations, of which 10 must be peer-reviewed scholarly articles no older than 10 years prior to the year in which the course is offered; each annotation should be approximately 1 page. Final Paper: A 3,000-3,500 word APA-formatted paper in which candidates will draw from educative experiences as students as well as their experiences in the field experience for this course. Candidates will synthesize research findings, their own experiences, and their aspirations for their own classroom.
Athena Title
The Middle Grades Curriculum
Prerequisite
EDMG 5020/7020 or EDMG 7020E
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
Students will understand the interdisciplinary nature of knowledge and how to make connections among subject areas when planning curriculum.
Students will use content standards when designing curriculum.
Students will teach in ways that develop young adolescents' competence in subject matters and requisite skills.
Students will use effective content-specific teaching strategies.
Students will use a variety of developmentally appropriate teaching/learning strategies and materials and resources that motivate adolescents to learn (e.g., technological resources).
Students will employ effective, developmentally responsive classroom management techniques.
Students will use a variety of formal and informal assessment techniques to assess student learning.
Students will engage in ongoing forms of inquiry about their practice, at the classroom level, the team or grade level, and the school level.
