EDUC 9250 - Educational Strategies

6 cr.

Given the context of the adult learner and the process of implementing educational change studied in the previous courses in the CAGS sequence, the focus of this course is on effective and promising strategies which improve teaching and, thereby, learning for all children. Students become proficient at critiquing the design, analysis and results of research to determine which strategies hold promise for improving teaching. Students also study current effective strategies in the field, such as cooperative learning, social interaction, peer mediation, teaching/learning styles, cross cultural competency, apprenticeship models, reciprocal teaching and project approach, as well as implementation of these strategies in their schools.