EDCI 4840 - Instructional Strategies and Classroom Management

3 hours (0;0;3)

Taken during the semester immediately preceding student teaching, this course provides knowledge and skills required for organizing and directing various instructional strategies in the secondary classroom. Content includes teaching strategies, approaches to classroom management and discipline, student motivation, student and teacher assessment and evaluation, and the use of media and technology in the classroom. Instruction, assignments, directed field experience and other class activities may take place on site in a school setting. Must complete 55 hours of field experience in assigned middle and high schools.

Prerequisite(s): Junior standing, admission to teacher education, and completion of or concurrent enrollment in all education course work excluding student teaching.