SMAT 5220 Knowing Your Profession II

Knowing Your Profession II is a hybrid graduate course that runs concurrently with teacher residency. The course synthesizes the methods content course, field experience/residency, and educational foundations by focusing on topics such as the context of schools, school reform, advocacy, research about teaching diverse students, school politics, national teaching standards, and the content area standards. Students will be expected to produce; a research-based teacher work sample that includes a literature review and social justice lesson plan in their content area; a school reform project; and, a professional portfolio. Students will explore the legal, economic, and institutional constraints on schools, and the intellectual, cultural and social possibilities of schools. This course will stress the reconstructionist model, and groom teacher candidates to become agents for social justice and change. The assessments are designed to move candidates toward critical reflective practice.
Credits: 3.0