Education

This course allows students to explore STEM teaching as a career. Following an introduction to the theory and practice behind excellent inquiry-based science and mathematics instruction, students teach lessons in elementary classrooms to obtain firsthand experience in planning and implementation. Students explore the possibility of teaching in science or mathematics. Students teach science or mathematics lessons in local elementary classrooms and obtain first-hand experience with planning and implementing inquiry-based curriculum.

Students continue developing the lesson planning skills learned in EDU 101: Inquiry Approaches to Teaching. After observing a lesson being taught in a local school district classroom, students plan and teach three inquiry-based lessons to sixth, seventh, or eighth graders. Middle school science or mathematics classrooms are selected both for the diversity of the student body and the quality of the classroom teachers, who serve as mentors for the students assigned to them.