EDUC 664 - Learning and Teaching: Social Studies

3 credit(s)
Guides aspiring teachers of early childhood and elementary age learners in developing skills to design and organize lessons and units that involve students in appropriate learning activities, require thinking at a range of levels, and use a variety of assessment methods. Course content will include an examination of curriculum foundations, a variety of specific curricular models, instructional skills and strategies, assessment methods, and classroom management (guidance) systems. Throughout this course, social studies concepts will serve as the content and provide a context around which treatments of general teaching methods will be organized.