SSTE 415 - Humanizing Educ Methods

Upper Division

Teachers are called to make curricular decisions crucial to the development of the young, the progress of our communities, and the state of our democracy. Teaching is a political act, one informed by critical dialogue and compassion. In this class, you will learn to teach responsively, drawing from an assets-based and community cultural wealth-oriented stance. This course centers on the ideas that teaching should be student-centered, culturally enriched, aligned to curriculum standards, infused with content knowledge, enlivened by real world applications and active learning, and developmentally appropriate. In this class, you will be challenged as intellectuals and as critically reflective practitioners. Teaching and learning is a practice of liberation and a practice of humanization. This course is designed to help potential teachers develop the knowledge, skills and strategies necessary to implement effective classrooms for all students. You will learn unit design, lesson planning, how to integrate complex instruction, approaches to establishing a productive classroom community and classroom management, elements of formative and summative assessment, how to alter teaching through reflection and to involve students in their own learning through self-reflection, how to learn from community partners and guardians, and how to use data to drive instruction and the arts and technology to enrich it in humanizing ways. You will also be supported in the development of your pedagogical content knowledge, pedagogical knowledge, and content knowledge in your subject matter disciplines.

Repeatable
No

Additional Notes
Previous course number: SSTE 350

Course credits: 3