Curriculum and Instruction for Elementary and Pre-Adolescent Students

Explicate a developmentally responsive rationale for using cooperative, individualistic and competitive goal structures in classrooms.

Plan learning engagements that take into account the developmental levels of students and clearly align standards, objectives, learning tasks and assessments.

Modify suggested lessons from textbooks to address multiple learning styles, English language learners, students with special needs.

Describe major instructional models and their implications for student learning.

Reflect on planning for learning engagements in the context of knowledge of student development, school structures, state standards and different philosophies of teaching and learning.