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- SED SC 375: Exploring Science Teaching: A Practical Experience
Students will explore science teaching through observation of secondary school science classrooms and, where possible, through participation in the classroom instruction. Readings discussed in seminar will prepare students to interact in the classroom and to prepare lesson plans. 2cr. either sem. - SED SC 507: Student-Teaching Half Practicum: Science, 5-8
Minimum 150 hours required. Open only to matriculated graduate students who have completed prerequisites. For description, see SED SC 509. 4cr, 2nd sem. - SED SC 509: Student-Teaching Practicum: Science, 5-8
Student teaching: a full-time experience in a selected school under joint supervision of a cooperating practitioner and a University representative. Minimum 300 hours required. 8cr, 2nd sem. - SED SC 510: Student-Teaching Practicum: Science, 8-12
Student teaching: a full-time experience in a selected secondary school under joint supervision of a cooperating practitioner and a University representative. Minimum 300 hours required. 8cr, 2nd sem. - SED SC 521: Introduction to STEM Education Theory and Practice
This course provides an introduction to modern learning theory emphasizing inquiry learning in the classroom for science, engineering and mathematics. 2cr, either sem. - SED SC 539: Explaining Science: a Philosophical Perspective
An analysis of science from a philosophical and historial perspective. What distinguishes scientific knowing? What vision has science given us of the universe and humanity's place within it? And how can answers to such questions inform the presentation of science to students and other non-scientists? 4cr, 2nd sem. - SED SC 570: Sci Teach Meth
- SED SC 572: Science Methods II: Teaching in the Science Disciplines
This course emphasizes the practical applications of instructional strategies and teaching skills presented in science methods I. It emphasizes the pedagogical content knowledge in the respective disciplines as they are being practiced in the student teaching practicum. 4cr, 2nd sem. - SED SC 575: Intro Sci Edu
- SED SC 576: Science Teaching Pre-Practicum
Pre-service teachers will participate in a pre-practicum experience in local schools where they will have the opportunity to study and practice science teaching methods addressed in SC570: Science Teaching Methods. - SED SC 595: Laboratory Learning in Life Sciences
Course integrated academic content in basic biology, with instruction in how to learn in laboratory settings, includes analysis preparation, adjusting to variations in experiments, devising suitable pedagogy, and on-suite instructional strategies. Emphasizes student's reflective inquiry. 2cr, either sem.
