The middle grades preservice teacher observes the middle school curriculum and appropriate teaching strategies during their field experience. Incorporating quality transescent literature into content area study is modeled.
Students tutor a middle grades child in reading.
EDMG 3623 Students become familiar with developmentally appropriate principles and practices in assessment of reading capabilities of transescents. Skills in child observation and administration and in the use of formal and informal assessment is learned. Students apply their knowledge by assessing and tutoring a child. Students learn content and specialized methods and classroom practices appropriate for teaching mathematics to adolescents. Field-based experiences in an educational setting provide opportunities for observation and implementation of teaching strategies.