EDMG 3300 - Success in the Middle: Teaching, Learning, and Advocacy

3 Credit Hours 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours
Prerequisites Admission to teacher education program and EDUC 2130.
Candidates will focus on the development of middle school curriculum and instructional and assessment activities that relate to early adolescents, with an emphasis on the attributes of the middle school philosophy. Candidates will also examine the issues of teaching young adolescents and the unique role teachers must play as interdisciplinary team members, content specialists, as well as advocates for the middle school and the middle level learner. Candidates will further examine issues related to diversity including, but not limited to, ethnicity, race, age, socioeconomic status, gender, giftedness, disability, language, religion, family structure, sexual orientation, and geographic region. Information from current research and exemplary practitioners will be used to extend candidate knowledge on special topics related to social, emotional, and physical development as it relates to the curricula.