SCED 6414: Introduction to Teaching for Secondary Science

2 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: SCED 6412
Corequisite: SCED 6650
This is the first of three science methods courses in a professional sequence toward becoming a well-prepared beginning secondary science teacher. Topics include an introduction to the profession, developing classroom culture, and planning and implementing inquiry based lessons.

Course Learning Outcomes
Students who successfully complete this course will be able to:

Use and apply the major concepts, principles, theories, laws, and interrelationships of their fields of licensure and supporting fields.
Explain the nature of science and the cultural norms and values inherent to the current and historical development of scientific knowledge.
Emphasize science and engineering practices in their planning and implementation of lessons and units for all science students.
Focus deeply on a limited number of Disciplinary Core Ideas within each major category of science disciplines.
Use science standards and a variety of appropriate, student-centered, and culturally relevant science disciplinary-based instructional approaches that follow safety procedures and incorporate science and engineering practices, disciplinary core ideas, and crosscutting concepts.
Incorporate appropriate differentiation strategies, wherein all students develop conceptual knowledge and an understanding of the nature of science. Lessons should engage students in applying science practices, clarifying relationships, and identifying natural patterns from phenomena and empirical experiences.
Use engineering practices in support of science learning wherein all students design, construct, test and optimize possible solutions to a problem.
Align instruction and assessment strategies to support instructional decision making that identifies and addresses student misunderstandings, prior knowledge, and naïve conceptions.
Integrate science-specific technologies to support all students’ conceptual understanding and application of science and engineering.
Demonstrate knowledge of the definitions and characteristics of dyslexia and other related disorders.
Demonstrate competence in the use of evidence-based interventions, structured multisensory approaches to teaching language and reading skills.
Demonstrate competence in the application of accommodations for students displaying characteristics of dyslexia and/or other related disorders.
Demonstrate competence in the use of a response-to-intervention framework addressing reading, writing, mathematics, and behavior.