Curriculum planning, implementation, and assessment for teaching middle grades students. A supervised field experience is included.
Athena Title
The Middle Grades Curriculum
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in EDMG 5035, EDMG 7035
Non-Traditional Format
This course will be taught 95% or more online.
Prerequisite
EDMG 5020/7020 or EDMG 7020E
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.
