TCH301 - Edu II: Understanding Learning & Teaching

Course Description

By examining learning contexts and classroom practice, students will examine what it means to learn and what is means to teach. Students will examine various models of teaching and learning and the theoretical constructs that underlie them. They will focus on developing classroom communities by exploring issues of organization and management and the construct of motivation. Students will relate current developmental and learning theory to the process of selecting, designing, and differentiating curriculum, instruction, assessment, technology and classroom environment in order to create a classroom community that affirms diversity, respects cultural and linguistic differences while promoting personal and group growth and development. Professional seminars and fieldwork one day per week, either Tuesday or Thursday accompany this course. This course is designed to be taken in the fall of the junior year following admission to the School of Education.