Christopher Clinton

Inservice teacher pathway. Building on teaching experience, this course will ask students to demonstrate and evaluate instructional pedagogical practices. In this experience, students will plan, teach, and reflect on multiple classroom experiences. The focus of the course is to improve instructional strategies and connect best teaching practices as presented in research literature.

Field-based experience in a school. This final field-based experience focuses on completing the final gateway assessment. This experience requires no less than 30 hours of placement in a school determined in collaboration with the Field Based Experiences Coordinator. In this experience, students will co-plan and co-teach multiple lessons in addition to engaging in other classroom activities.

Introduction to the ways in which technology can enhance instructional experiences. This course will examine technology-based instructional approaches and provide students opportunities to engage in such approaches. This course is hands-on with a balance of technology-based and reading-based assignments to support current and future teachers in envisioning and creating technology-enhanced 21st century classrooms aligned to their content areas.
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Empowering in-service teachers to design a variety of instructional opportunities that attend to student learning, Building from a review of basic practices related to addressing academic diversity and responsive teaching in contemporary classrooms, this course focuses on the creation of learning environments supporting effective instructional and management strategies that attend to the dynamic and varied needs of all learners.
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Introduction to the critical social and political issues in U.S. schooling that affect how schools are organized, as well as how teachers approach pedagogy and curriculum. Students will examine how schools and educational policy are intimately interwoven with cultural and social contexts.
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Field-based practice in a school. The first Field Based Experience focuses on focuses on the completion of the first field based gateway assessment. This in field based experience requires at least 30 hours of placement in a school determined in collaboration with the Field Based Experiences Coordinator.
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Building teaching experience. This course focuses on instructional pedagogical practices improving student learning. This course serves students who are already working in the field. In this experience, students will plan, teach, and reflect on multiple classroom experiences. The goal of the course is to improve instructional strategies and connect best teaching practices as presented in research literature.
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