Overview
This course is an introduction to a systematic approach to instruction. Special emphasis is placed on developing performance objectives, planning teaching strategies and formulating evaluation instruments to assess learning. The use of technological resources in instructional planning is emphasized. Students will develop skills to create meaningful learning experiences for students of diverse cultural, ethnic, linguistic and intellectual backgrounds. These skills are then practiced in actual peer teaching situations that may occur off campus.
Logistics
This course is typically offered in the Fall, Spring, and Summer semesters. During the Fall and Spring semesters, the course usually meets on Wednesdays 4:30 – 7:00. Meeting times during the Summer semesters vary. Students must have departmental consent to enroll in this course.
Course Objectives
In this course, students will:
- Use pre-assessment of students’ needs and diverse backgrounds to develop and evaluate instructional outcomes, strategies and plans that promote student learning.
- Develop and evaluate behavioral objectives that address cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains of learning.
- Develop and evaluate instructional opportunities that encourage critical thinking, problem-solving, and performance skills.
- Enhance student motivation to achieve learning goals by activating prior knowledge, addressing multiple learning styles and intelligences, and incorporating a variety of instructional techniques in lesson planning.
- Assess student learning systematically by planning assessment that is based upon the curriculum goals and behavioral objectives.
- Develop and evaluate a variety of different types of assessments, including formal and informal, criterion-referenced, norm-referenced, performance- and portfolio-based evaluations.
- Create short and long-range learning plans that are linked to Maryland College and Career Readiness standards (MD STEM Standards of Practice, MD Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Common Core Standards of Mathematical Practice, Next Generation Science Standards, MD Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts, and MD Common Core State Standards for Disciplinary Literacy).
- Evaluate lesson plans and learning experiences in relation to short-range and long-range goals.
- Adjust instructional plans to meet student needs and enhance learning, based on classroom monitoring strategies, student responses, and assessment data.
- Enhance lesson plans and student learning with multimedia communication and technological resources.
Key Assessments
1. Praxis II Content Reflection
2. Praxis II Principles of Learning and Teaching 7-12 Reflection
3. Lesson Plan Adaptation
Technology Requirement
Assignments are to be word-processed. Continuing and regular use of e-mail (your UMBC account), and Blackboard is expected. All students enrolled in Department of Education (DOE) programs are required to have a TK20 account. TK20 will be used for submitting a Key Assignment in every course in addition to other requirements by program (i.e., portfolios). If you do not already have a TK20 account, you will be required to purchase one. A TK20 student membership may be purchased at https://umbc.tk20.com/campustoolshighered/admissions1.do. The student fee is $103 for five years.