EDU 5750 - Teaching in Secondary School

Goals: To demonstrate knowledge and beginning facility in methods for teaching adolescents. To understand the influence society, home, and school have on adolescents. To expand understanding of the educational process and the teacher’s role in it.

Content: Taxonomies of educational objectives; planning, measurement, and evaluation of learning; educational technologies; reading diagnosis and development; philosophy of teaching and teaching models; theories of adolescent development (physical, social, mental, and psychological); areas of educational controversy.
Taught: Fall and spring terms.
Prerequisites: EDU 3150 and 3250, junior standing, and admission to teacher education.

Clinical Requirement: 16 hours.