Description
Emphasizes the nature, characteristics, goals, content objective, and skills for English at the secondary level. Research and trends in curriculum development are examined: selected topics, problems, projects, and issues are explored. Students design and develop an interdisciplinary thematic unit. Students also critique and evaluate selected instructional procedures. Students will have opportunities to exlore various English classroom settings. Candidates' knowledge, skills, and dispositions performance are assessed by examinations, demonstrations, by documented understanding of the teacher work sample methodology applied to Secondary English studies NCTE standards to include contextual factors, learning goals, assessment plan, design for instruction, classroom management, instructional decision-making, analysis of student learning, reflection and self evaluation, and family involvement plan. In addition, to enroll in the Competence Performance Seminar and complete a pre-post Mo