EDU 205 - Teaching and Learning

Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3

This course introduces and critically explores models and theories of curriculum, teaching, and assessment. Students will experience multiple pathways to planning a lesson. In addition to lesson planning within the teaching-learning cycle, this course explores different modes of instructional delivery as vehicles for learner engagement. The course gives students opportunities to navigates student-directed and teacher-direct dialogues, including group facilitation. In this class, students reflect on practice through a lens of equity and classroom collaboration, honing students’ adaptive expertise and development as reflective practitioners. It supports learners as they develop a coherent learning segment and reflect on student learning within the learning segment, including reflection around the selection of instructional activities, materials, strategies, and supports. The class will use multi-disciplinary methods to consider key educational issues and tensions in these areas including differentiation and the relationships between schooling, educational access and equity, and society. Students will engage in formal and informal writing including reflections on course readings, films, and discussions; peer review of written work; and the use of different genres to critically explore tensions in education. A practicum is required. Meets DPI conflict resolution requirement.

Offered Spring

Prerequisite(s): ED 200, ED 215, and sophomore standing