SMAT 5500 Science Content and Pedagogy I

Science Content and Pedagogy is a 3 credit hybrid graduate course that runs concurrently with teacher residency. Emphasis is on developing culturally relevant pedagogy, implementing a coherent, multicultural curriculum, and managing a safe and engaging learning environment with high expectations for diverse learners in middle school and high school. Currently recommended strategies that help learners to construct knowledge and understand science ideas are emphasized along with the curriculum recommendations of state and national science education standards and the common core. Candidates participate as learners in lessons that model current recommendations and they study practices of successful teachers through case studies and school visitations. Lessons planned in the methods laboratory are taught in the field. Candidates assess their teaching effectiveness through feedback from a variety of sources including peers, learners in the schools, cooperating teachers, and methods professors. Candidates work collaboratively to plan curriculum projects, to identify and solve problems associated with teaching science in the schools, and to collect and share resources for teaching and safe management of the learning environment. Prerequisite(s): SMAT 5000 AND SMAT 5100
Credits: 3.0