URBS 392 - Multidisciplinary Methods in Adolescent Education

Semester Offered: Spring
1 unit(s)

(Same as EDUC 392) This course is designed to engage prospective middle and high school educators in developing innovative, culturally relevant, and socially responsive curricula in a specific discipline, as well as in exploring ways to branch inter-disciplinarily. In particular, students will strive to develop a practice that seeks to interrupt inequities in schooling and engender a transformative experience for all students. The first part of the course explores what it means to employ social justice, multicultural, and critical pedagogies in education through self-reflections, peer exchange, and class texts. The remainder of the course specifically looks at strategies to enact such types of education, focusing on methods, curriculum design, and assessment. Students will explore of a variety of teaching approaches and develop ways to adapt them to particular subject areas and to the intellectual, social, and emotional needs of adolescent learners. There will be a particular emphasis on literacy development and meeting the needs of English Language Learners. Ms. Hantzopoulos.

Prerequisite: EDUC 235.

One 2-hour period.