Description
This course is designed to assist teacher candidates in developing competence in the use and implementation of communication and thinking skills in the content area. Candidates are expected to develop knowledge, skills, and disposition for fostering among the middle and secondary students active engagemnt in learning, self-motivation, and positive social interaction and to create supportive learning environments. Candidates are to develop techniques to foster activity inquiry, collaboration, and supportive interaction in the middle and secondary classroom. Topics include developing vocabulary, construting meaning in texts, reading-study strategies for textbook use, pre and post reading strategies, organization skills, using assessment tools, selection and preparation of appropriate and interesting reading materials, and integrating writing into the middle and secondary content area curriculum. For successful completion of this course, students must demonstrate penmanship competency