With these skills, elementary school students will be able to achieve the goals of scientific literacy and responsible citizenship. Provides students with opportunities to explore all aspects of preschool and kindergarten program curricula. Course focuses on planning and implementing curriculum in readiness skills, language development and communication arts. Observation and participation field component included. For students interested in planning teaching strategies for primary grades.
Course explores language arts, math, science, social sciences and classroom management.
Observation and participation field component included. This course offers the participant the opportunity to become technologically literate and to be able to create a classroom environment which allows new tools to be used for teaching and learning. An additional goal of the course is to allow the participant to work with information storage and retrieval materials linked to the curriculum in non-threatening, understandable and applicable ways. Other selected topics are explored in light of current mathematical standards and trends. They examine the characteristics which are consistent with the social-constructivist theory of learning and develop a knowledge base of literacy instruction which benefit students' comprehension of text.