EDUC 6519 - Instructional Delivery in the Content Areas

The Instructional Delivery in the Content Areas graduate-level course is designed to prepare teachers to enhance instructional pedagogies in their areas of certification for learners in grades K-12. Students will learn to use conferencing techniques and to construct and use valid and reliable systematic observation instruments to provide the basis for analysis and feedback concerning classroom instruction. Students in the course study and learn theoretical and practical information essential in the two-tiered assessment approach currently employed in the public school setting: one focus on state-mandated, competency assessment procedures agreed upon by school counties and their teachers and the other focus on continual instructional development and the pursuit of excellence that stretches beyond competence to maximize both a teacher’s potential and student achievement. Students will understand and apply specific school/community-based demographics as well as research-based strategies, culturally responsive and developmentally appropriate pedagogies, methodologies that promote student self-directedness and inquiry, levels of differentiation, and content-specific resources to improve their professional practice.

Prerequisite/Corequisite:
Prerequisite: Admission into a Social Foundations and Leadership Education graduate program

Hours:
3