Apr 24, 2024  
2023-2025 Catalog Volume XXXI Ver 1 
    
2023-2025 Catalog Volume XXXI Ver 1

EDU 5090 Designing a Student Centered & Social Studies Environment for Grades 3-5


Lecture: 4 Lab: 0 Practica: 0 Total Credits: 4
EDU 5090 capitalizes on candidates’ explicit instruction, modeling and demonstrating, and knowledge of student engagement and thinking strategies to enhance student achievement in science and social studies standards for grades 3-5. Candidates investigate resources appropriate for grades 3-5 science and social studies content standards, plan and present science and social studies lessons, provide academic feedback, guide the independent learning of students, group students in accordance with differentiated needs, and participate in conferences to discuss their effectiveness. Candidates demonstrate and apply understandings and integration of the three dimensions of science and engineering practices, cross-cutting concepts, and major disciplinary core ideas, within the major content areas of science for grades 3-5. Candidates also demonstrate understandings, capabilities, and practices associated with the central concepts and tools in Civics, Economics, Geography, and History, within a framework of informed inquiry for grades 3-5.