ELEM 5810 - Elem Curriculum/instr/Assess

Credit Hours: 3

This course is designed to provide teacher candidates with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to create developmentally appropriate and responsive instruction and assessment for learners in K - 4 classrooms. Topics covered include K through grade 4 curriculum models, developmentally appropriate practices, lesson planning, writing objectives, instructional strategies, and assessment of student learning. Through various teaching and learning methodologies, the teacher candidates will learn how to plan for and utilize strategies based on evidence-based research, Pennsylvania Department of Education Learning Standards and standards set forth by the National Association for the Education of Young Children.