EDU 552 Best Practices and Effective Teaching

Students will examine the most up to date pedagogy in education. Key features of the course involve best practices in areas such as student collaboration, questioning, and feedback techniques. Teaching practices will include study of effective teacher research, classroom instruction research, 90/90/90 schools research, and approaches such as project learning. Each student will select one or more practices of interest which s/he will incorporate into her/his classroom instruction. The instructor and students will examine the effects these practices have on classroom instruction.