EDCI 62425 Integrated Curriculum, Methods, and Strategies in Grades 1-3

This course informs candidates of the importance of project-based approaches to curriculum for primary grades.  Building on knowledge, experiences, and reflections on Constructivist paradigms of learning and teaching, from previous courses in the program, this course deepens a prospective teacher's understanding of the learning process as fluid, negotiated, and self-propelled.  This outlook forms the framework for guiding candidates to discuss, examine, and reflect on "inquiry-based approaches" for teaching in grades 1-3.  Candidates learn to plan developmentally appropriate, meaningful learning experiences based on state and common core standards with an understanding of how content areas such as language, reading, writing, numeracy and math, scientific reasoning, visual and expressive arts, and social studies are integrated in order to facilitate and support the development of the "whole child" in grades 1-3.  Environmental organization and design along with teaching methods and interactive strategies that encourage, stimulate, and nurture active problem-solving and discovery-oriented learning, are emphasized.  Prerequisite:  EDCI 62232.  Corequisite:  EDCI 62326, EDCI 62401, EDCI 62426, EDCI 62427, and EDCI 62435.

Credits

3