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

2024-2025 Catalog Year

Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 2
Non-Lecture: 2

This course will help candidates develop the skills and competencies needed to organize effective instruction and to evaluate educational environments for all grades (levels Pre K - 12). Techniques for organizing instruction will include the development of educational goals, instructional (behavioral) objectives, task analysis and lesson plan. Consideration will be given to effective strategies (e.g. Kagan), use of time and how a student’s IEP should be consider when planning instruction. This course includes 25 hours of fieldwork, in an inclusive childhood classroom. The fieldwork will focuses on preparing teachers to be participant observers in the classroom and will give students the opportunity to observe, interview, collect and analyze data to engage in professional discourse about organizing instruction. Candidates must receive a letter grade of C- or higher to move to Block III. Candidates will be allowed one retake of this course due to failure or withdrawal.

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

SPED 231
Restricted to: Pre-SPED/Childhood major or SPED/Childhood major

Class Restriction: Sophomore, Junior, Senior
Repeatable: Not repeatable
Offered: Every Semester