This course prepares secondary teacher candidates to develop, present, assign, and evaluate writing activities that will help their students master the content of the course being taught as well as help them develop competent writing skills. Students in this course learn to personalize their teaching so that they can increase student motivation, decrease discipline problems, improve their own and their student's self esteem, develop effective communication channels and make the learning process more enjoyable for themselves and for their students. In this course, students apply the skills they have developed through field experience and methodology courses as they begin to manage the operations of an elementary classroom day. Students will be assigned to both a rural and an urban school. A special fee is charged.
Students are responsible for providing transportation to the site.
This course provides prospective secondary student teachers with the knowledge of the methods and materials they need to effectively plan, deliver, and evaluate instruction in a secondary English class. This course provides prospective secondary student teachers with information on the methods and materials they need to effectively plan, deliver, and evaluate instruction in a secondary social studies classroom. This course provides prospective secondary student teachers with information on the methods and materials they need to effectively plan, deliver, and evaluate instruction in a secondary mathematics classroom. This course provides prospective secondary student teachers with information on the methods and materials they need to effectively plan, deliver, and evaluate instruction in a secondary science classroom. In this course, students apply the skills they have developed through field experiences and methodology courses as they begin to manage all the operations of a secondary classroom.