EDC 733 - Fieldwork Seminar III: Creating Effective Learning Environments in the Early Primary Grades

1.5 Credit(s) This field seminar, taken in conjunction with field-based methods courses on how to teach content in the early primary grades, focuses on how to create warm, nurturing, intellectually challenging, and educationally effective learning environments for young children. Topics include how to talk to children, how to help children learn to self-regulate, and child-guidance strategies. This seminar will also provide a forum for students in this cohort-based program to process their own instructional practice, carried out in their field placements, and to build connections within their program cohort. 1.5 lecture hours per week. Includes field-based assignments.
Pre-requisite: EDC 406 Literacy Development II