Description
This course is designed to assist teacher candidates in developing connections between mathematics, curriculum theory and lassroom practice. Candidates are expected to develop knowledge, skills, and dispositions for fostering among the middle and secondary level students' active engagement in learning, self-motivation, and positive social interaction and to create supportive learning environments. Candidates develop techniques that will foster activity inquiry, collaboration, and supportive interaction in the middle and/or secondary classroom. Candidates' clinical performance and teaching processes are assessed by the teacher work sample methodology to include contextual factors, learning goals, assessment plan, design for instruction, classroom management, instructional decision-making, analysis of stufent learning, reflection and self-evaluation, and family involvement plan. This course requires candidates to complete 30 clock hours of clinical experiences during the school day.