| Course ID: | WFED 8200E. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | Contemporary Teaching Trends and Strategies in Workforce Education |
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. |
| Oasis Title: | TCH TREND WKFORC ED |
| Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in WFED 8200 or EOCS 8200 or EOCS 8200E |
| Prerequisite: | Permission of department |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered spring semester every year. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| 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 |