STEM and Content Literacy Field Experience

General

Prefix

STEM

Course Number

421

Course Level

Undergraduate

Department/Unit(s)

Stem Education

College/School

College of Science and Engineering

Description

Merging theory and practice for developing inclusive and responsive curriculum, instruction and assessment in STEM in the pre K-12 setting during an in-depth field experience. Active involvement in classrooms includes working with ESL, special education or other historically under-served students as well as incorporating content literacy into the classroom.

Credits

Credit Hours

Min

Max

Repeatable

Goals and Diversity

MN Goal Course

Cultural Diversity

Learning Outcomes

Outcome

Analyze and observe the culture of the high school environment and classroom.

Outcome

Create safe, respectful, democratic cultures and learning communities in the high school classroom.

Outcome

Apply communication and relationship-building strategies with students, peers, school employees, and parents/community members.

Outcome

Implement inclusive and equitable curricula, assessment, and instruction based on diverse learner needs.

Outcome

Apply language development, literacy knowledge, and skills to instructional activities in a content area.

Outcome

Develop and team teach interdisciplinary curriculum.

Outcome

Apply STEM content to instructional activities in a content area.

Course Outline

Observe high school content area classroom. 20% Observe high school STEM classroom. 10% Participate in co-teaching in content area high school classroom. 20% Participate in informal and/or formal assessment in high school content area classroom. 10% Develop lesson plans and teach those lesson plans in high school content area. 20% Develop STEM lesson plans and co-teach those lesson plans for content area high school classroom. 10% Apply language development, literacy knowledge, and skills to instructional activities high school content area. 10%

Dependencies

Programs

STEM421 is a completion requirement for: