You will develop your communication skills in learning activities and assessments. Reflective writing encourages analysis. It helps in connecting course content, self-knowledge, and practical experiences with teaching and learning. To help you process what you are learning in this course and make meaning that is relevant to you, you will discuss issues and ideas with a partner through the use of dialogue journals. Entries draw interpretive conclusions from course content.
Entries connect course content with personal beliefs and experiences.
Entries exhibit depth of analytical thinking. Learning will be facilitated through ongoing review games and daily quizzes. To improve schools, teachers must participate effectively in groups, gather data, and make convincing arguments. You will develop these skills in a case study approach focusing on an educational issue of equal access. Case study will involve library research, Internet research, site visits and interviews at schools, and a debate presented to your PDS faculty.