ED 360 - Content-Specific Methods in Secondary Education

3 Credit Hours

Prerequisite: ED 231, ED 240, ESE 200. This course prepares secondary teachers for the theoretical and practical understanding needed for the 21st century classroom. The foundation of the course rest on students’ understanding of information in several areas such as content development, development of pedagogical skills, philosophy, and context in planning in the secondary classroom. Through a reflective approach, students will be prepared to design unit plans and lesson plans with a focus on diversity and differentiated instruction for linguistically and culturally diverse students. Students will examine realistic scenarios and examples from a variety of subject areas such as Biology, Business, English, Music, and Social Science. (FA, SP)