SOE 302 Foundations Of Curriculumn, Instruction and Assessment

Required field experience: 10 hours This course provides an overview of best practices demonstrated by effective teachers in today's preschool and primary school classrooms. It begins by defining the practices, behaviors, and dispositions of effective, reflective teachers and emphasizes the importance of understanding the diversity and complexity of today’s students. It continues by exploring lesson planning structures or designs and basic as well as more advanced instructional strategies that will help educators reach every student in their classroom. Finally, this course introduces several forms of assessment that serve specific purposes for allowing teachers to evaluate whether students are demonstrating the learning that meets specific goals andobjectives. Prerequisite: ECE 240