May 14, 2024  
2023-2025 Catalog Volume XXXI Ver 1 
    
2023-2025 Catalog Volume XXXI Ver 1

EDU 5900 Curriculum & Instruction Capstone


Lecture: 4.5 Lab: 0 Practica: 0 Total Credits: 4.5
A culmination of knowledge from previous courses, students will use prior knowledge in a collaborative and reflective manner, with the goal of improving their own teaching practice and promoting student learning. The course will cover the different steps involved in developing a professional Curriculum and Instruction Action Portfolio, in order for students to identify areas in their own Curriculum and Instruction practice that may need re-development. Students will use data driven approaches to identify and develop interventions within teaching and learning in their own classrooms. Additionally, the course will cover how to use data to inform decision-making and how to communicate the Action Portfolio needs to colleagues and other stakeholders. By the end of the course the students will have developed an Action Portfolio of Curriculum design and Instructional improvements that foster differentiated and culturally competent materials in their own classrooms.