Description
Designed for secondary English education majors, the course provides an overview of secondary English education-history, issues, state and national standards. Standards-based instruction for secondary English will be examined and applied. Includes an emphasis on instructional technologies. Candidates will discuss and develop sensitivity to diversity and inclusivity that is demanded in today's schools and will plan lessons and units that allow and help students to explore this diversity. Taken as part of a methods block, this course provides a 30-hour field experience in which candidates prepare, teach, and assess lessons. Prerequisites: Admission to teacher education; Educ 313; Educ 316; Educ 303; Educ 306. Corequisite: Educ 398 or Educ 399. Offered: Fall, (as needed)