EDU287A

Education

This course explores essential principles leading to a deeper understanding to allow the teacher to foster student growth across domains by exploring central and emerging disciplinary concepts and employing technologies to enhance content mastery for students including those with exceptionalities. This course encourages aspiring educators to deepen their understanding of key principles of learner development, universal design, and developmentally appropriate instruction, while fostering ongoing professional growth and inquiry. Through weekly sessions featuring expert guest speakers, targeted readings, and interactive activities, students will examine how cognitive, linguistic, social, emotional initiatives shape learning environments that promote collaboration, engagement, and self-motivation. Students evaluate instructional strategies, accommodations, formative assessment methods; and apply leadership and reflective practices to create classrooms to support diverse learners.

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