Semesters Offered: Fall/Spring
Duties: Teach a section of this seminar to elementary interns in fall or spring semester. Focus on teacher roles in curriculum analysis, adaptation and development, as well as issues of assessment. Topics include analysis of national standards and district curriculum guidelines, curriculum appraisal, unit and lesson planning, assessment of student understanding. Work with a faculty mentor. The course may be focused around an elementary subject matter area.
Supervising Faculty: Sharon Schwille or Elementary Subject Area Learders:
Cheryl Rosaen, Literacy
Beth Herbel-Eisenmann, Mathematics
Anne-Lise Halvorsen, Social Studies
Christina Schwarz, Science
Desired Qualifications:
One or more of the following:
- Elementary teaching experience
- Background in elementary subject matter area
- Experience with pre-service teacher education
- Interest in/experience with school–university collaboration.
Mentoring, Monitoring and Evaluation: Graduate student instructors are required to attend initial orientation prior to the start of fall semester. Graduate assistants selected to teach this course will work under the guidance of the Course Coordinator. Graduate assistants are required to attend regularly scheduled meetings throughout the year for professional development. Graduate student instructors are evaluated at least once each semester with a debriefing session. Copies of written evaluation and SIRS are kept in the graduate student instructor’s file.