EDSE 4401 Facilitating Learning and Assessment I II

Emphasis on curriculum and content, facilitating student learning, creating positive learning environments for all students, formal and informal assessment, planning and instruction and professional reflection. Allows candidates to engage in a critical study of the host school and provides a culminating opportunity to discuss, model and reflect upon best practices in high school teaching. Additionally, the course encourages candidates to identify their personal strengths and weaknesses and allows them to develop positive attributes, skills and dispositions during their internship teaching. This course is typically taken during Internship II.

Credits

1

Prerequisite

EDUC 2251

Corequisite

EDSE 4499

Student Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, the candidate will be able to:

1. Explore, analyze, and test a variety of instructional, management, assessment, and communication strategies and skills, grounded in research & theory and content domain knowledge, for use in today’s diverse classrooms.
   
   1. As measured by the quantitative and qualitative feedback of the School Case Study, rubric attached on section Description of participants
2. Be reflective about own teaching and make suggestions for improvement.
   
   1. As measured by the quantitative and qualitative feedback of the CCLO portfolio, which includes reflections on a candidates own teaching.
3. Develop coherent instructional curriculum, integrating content knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge.
4. Develop a consistent overall approach to teaching for today’s academically, linguistically and culturally diverse classroom.
   
   1. As measured by the quantitative and qualitative feedback of the School Case Study, rubric attached on section Description of participants, who are students in a potentially diverse classroom.