3-3-0

This course will focus on the curriculum process and will examine how teachers and learners participate in the various dimensions of that process. Students will use their prior knowledge and understanding of effective learning in order to generate curricular frameworks to guide their classroom practice. They will degisn strategies to make student learning more meaningful. The primary goals of this course are to (1) understand the roles of the schools, curricula, teachers and learners in the 21st century, (2) understand several different modes of teaching and how each influences the learners' way of coming to know and (3) understand how to construct and effectively use unit level and lesson level plans.

Prerequisite: EDU116 and EDU 200 and EDU 215 OR EDU 116 and EDU 201 and EDU 216. Third year standing or permission of the school.