You are already teaching. SEC 507 is the course about why your lessons work, why they fail, and what to do about it before Friday's bell.
This is the methods course for teachers in the Clinical Residency Licensure Program. Five modules, eight learning objectives, one capstone unit plan you can use the week the course ends. Topics: planning, instruction, assessment, classroom management, diverse learners, and the cross-curricular connections that turn a list of standards into a coherent unit.
Professor, Watson College of Education
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Five modules across a sixteen-week semester. The mid-course checkpoint sits between Module 2 and Module 3.
Each module opens with an overview, the readings, the activities, and the assignments. Read the overview first. Then move through the chapter pages. The interactive activities (drag-and-drops, branching scenarios, self-checks) are not graded, but they get you ready for the assignments that are.
Three things to look for at the start of each module:
Where the year starts and where the rules get set. Withitness, classroom management, the first day, and the relationships that make every other module work.
Bloom's taxonomy, performance objectives, lesson plan structure, and the Marzano elements that move kids from passive listeners to active learners.
Formative checks, summative tests, rubrics, grading systems, and the questions that tell you whether a kid actually learned anything.
Every student in your room arrives with a different developmental, cultural, and linguistic backstory. This module gives you lenses to see them clearly and strategies to teach them all.
The capstone. Pick your content area and design a two-week thematic unit you can teach next semester: newsletter, rationale, five lessons, rubrics, and one cross-curricular connection that earns its place.
Each module page contains interactive activities: drag-and-drop sorts, branching scenarios, self-checks, and accordions. They run on JavaScript and work when you open the pages in your browser or through the Canvas iframe. For the best experience, use Chrome, Firefox, or Safari.