Apr 25, 2024  
2023-2025 Catalog Volume XXXI Ver 1 
    
2023-2025 Catalog Volume XXXI Ver 1

EDU 5080 Designing a Learning Centered Environment Focused On Thinking to Advance Understanding for Grades 3-5


Lecture: 4 Lab: 0 Practica: 0 Total Credits: 4
EDU 5080 builds candidates’ capacity for creating learning environments focused on thinking to advance understanding by considering the role that language, visualizing, and mapping play in science, math, and social studies across grades K-5. Candidates work collaboratively to build lesson plans and interdisciplinary lesson plans focused on thinking that capitalize on candidates’ explicit instruction, modeling, and demonstration of strategies that advance thinking and engage students in grades K-5 math, science, social studies, and literacy. Candidates work collaboratively to promote student engagement and independence as they create lessons that invite students to describe, interpret, provide evidence, make connections, consider different viewpoints, form conclusions, think about their thinking, ask questions, and wonder.