SPED 224 - Inquiry-based Teaching and Learning Strategies for Diverse Children

Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 2
Non-Lecture: 2
This course will introduce the processes of and strategies for effective teaching of diverse children. Students will learn how to plan and deliver lessons using the prevailing Standards guiding instruction in NYS. Students will reflect on their personal understandings of teaching, consider different teaching models and strategies, and begin to develop competence as thoughtful, well-informed teacher-researchers. This course includes supervised fieldwork that focuses on preparing teachers to be participant-observers in the classroom. This fieldwork will give students the opportunity to observe, interview, and analyze data in order to engage in professional discourse about organizing and delivering instruction.

Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): INTD 203