This course is meant to be offered on your campus as part of your teacher education program. It will carry your course number and be taught by your faculty.
Outline for the 15-week course
Course Outline
Critical Foundations of Subject Matter
The Cognitive and Operational Integration of
Content, Language, and Analytic Innateness
to Comprehend Critically, Develop
Learn-to-Learn Abilities, and
Achieve Performance Standards
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Course Objectives
- An understanding of how performance standards affect professional practice.
- An understanding of how to address core and content area subject matter through a variety of analytic / critical strategies and techniques.
- An understanding of how to teach for and assess standards-based thinking, writing, reading, speaking, and listening.
Course Outcomes
- The ability to: (a) Implement national, state, and local performance standards in the classroom, (b) develop standards-based classroom assignments, (c) develop and assess critical thinking, reading, writing, speaking, and listening abilities in students contextually regardless of discipline or subject matter.
Topics:
Part I - INTRODUCTION
- Current assessments of teaching
- Current assessments of Learning
- The importance of the assessments to teaching and learning
Part II - UNDERSTANDING SUBJECT MATTER
- Ways of Thinking
- How do you know when you understand something?
- Recall, Logical, Critical, and Creative thinking
- Importance to Teaching and Learning
- The Nature of Subject Matter
- Constructing Critical Understanding of Subject Matter Across the Curriculum
Part III - UNDERSTANDING PERFORMANCE STANDARDS
Part IV - TEACHING PRACTICE
- Thinking
- Writing/Speaking
- Reading/Listening
- Problem-Solving
- Studying
Part V - STANDARDS-BASED TEACHING SIMULATIONS
PART VI - ASSESSMENT
Course Materials
- The Analytic Teacher, Subject Matter Language Frameworks, and
The Analytic College Student
- New Standards (National) Performance Standards. National Center on Education and the Economy and the University of Pittsburgh, 1997.
- Learning Standards published by states and localities such as The University of the State of New York, The State Education Department, 1996.
Partial Reading and Reference List
- The National Education Goals Report, The National Education Panel, 1997.
- What Matters Most: Teaching for America's Future, Report of the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future, 1996.
- Tomorrow's Schools of Education. A Report of the Holmes Group. 1995
- A Nation at Risk. National Commission on Excellence in Education. 1983.
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Notes
- Rosebrooke provides the course outline, a detailed curriculum guide, and online faculty mentoring.
- For a copy of the complete course outline, contact
cko@rosebrooke.com
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