Seminar in Teaching II
This seminar along with 201, 203, 204 prepares future teachers by offering a monitoring process that connects teacher candidates to each other and with university faculty and professional teacher practitioners through shared learning experiences. Freshman has taken educational psychology in this cohort, which meets weekly throughout the semester. As a cohort, they discuss and relate their own cultural education and backgrounds to understand how beliefs and experiences influence decision-making or educations and how these experiences impact teaching careers. Teacher candidates experience various teaching strategies, address current and historical educational issues, and reflect on modeling skills. Development of critical thinking and problem solving skills revolve around curriculum issues such as beliefs and philosophies, historical events that have helped to shape our current educational system, schools in society, current social problems and how schools are addressing these issues, partnerships in the school arena, and state and federal regulations. Discussion based on outside work will be part of the course agenda. Various technologies will be used to assist candidates during the course.