This course provides students with an opportunity to explore teaching as a career. The role of the teacher, the benefits of teaching and the steps to becoming a teacher are some of the topics that will be explored. Students will be exposed to examples of good teaching and self-assess their personal and professional qualities.
As required by program.
This course allows students to explore STEM teaching as a career. Following an introduction to the theory and practice behind excellent inquiry-based science and mathematics instruction, students teach lessons in elementary classrooms to obtain firsthand experience in planning and implementation. Students explore the possibility of teaching in science or mathematics. Students teach science or mathematics lessons in local elementary classrooms and obtain first-hand experience with planning and implementing inquiry-based curriculum.
Offered as needed
PREREQUISITE: As required by program.
Students continue developing the lesson planning skills learned in EDU 101: Inquiry Approaches to Teaching. After observing a lesson being taught in a local school district classroom, students plan and teach three inquiry-based lessons to sixth, seventh, or eighth graders. Middle school science or mathematics classrooms are selected both for the diversity of the student body and the quality of the classroom teachers, who serve as mentors for the students assigned to them.
Offered as needed
PREREQUISITE: EDU 101
