EDU 5040 Interdisciplinary Birth-Grade 2, Childhood 1-6 and Middle Childhood Teaching Methods for Diverse Learners
The goal of this course is to enable the teacher candidates to integrate content areas across the curriculum through personal, content, student teaching and pedagogical-knowledge. These will be evidenced through skill application and dispositions that address diversity in ability, culture and student competencies. Participants will design themes for curriculum integration that incorporate problem-based mathematics, hands-on science, and social studies with reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Inter-curricula assessment and the use of technology in instruction will be addressed for the inclusion classroom and diverse learners. Emphasis will be placed upon developing lessons’ strategies, selecting topics (themes), writing lesson objectives, classroom management, teaching strategies and cognitive/meta-cognitive skill development that maximize student learning and participation through differentiated instructional techniques. Teacher candidates will learn how to help diverse learners in nursery, pre-k, kindergarten and childhood 1-6 understand the relationships and common themes that connect content, discipline and technology along with varied domains for development of the thematic unit in accordance with all New York State Learning Standards, NCATE and INSTASC.
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