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This course develops an advanced knowledge of student learning to help teachers guide their students towards deeper thinking in the classroom. This course also considers how general education teachers can better academically serve traditionally underserved students. Requires field experience in one's own classroom.

This course studies what it means to be a teacher faithful to their professional calling and design upon whom society depends for the modeling, teaching, and showcasing of virtue. Candidates will reflect on their disposition for teaching and their own culturally responsive lifestyle.

Candidates will examine and further develop their classroom practices with a focus on those that produce the greatest impact on learning. Candidates will analyze their high-leverage teaching practices and work together to highlight areas of commendation and improvement. The integration of contemporary technology as a means to enhance learning will be explored. This course requires field experience.

This course builds upon existing knowledge of curriculum design with the theoretical tools needed to analyze curriculum critically. Candidates extend their knowledge of curriculum mapping, encompassing areas such as backward design, alignment to academic content standards with core social justice, scope and sequence, differentiation, and technology integration.

This course builds upon existing knowledge about assessment design and experiences in previous curriculum courses with the theoretical tools needed to analyze assessment critically. Candidates will use principles of triangulation and backward design to critique assessments while demonstrating application of core social justice, technology integration, and differentiation in assessment design. Prerequisite: EDUC-540.

This course builds upon existing knowledge about classroom instruction with the theoretical tools needed to analyze pedagogy critically. Candidates will assess the quality of instructional practices, and evaluate culturally responsive teaching and technology integration. This course requires a field experience in a school setting. Prerequisite: EDUC-550.