EDMC 5479 - Teaching Math & Social Studies

Credits: 4

This course is for post baccalaureate early childhood education teachers seeking a fourth and fifth grade endorsement. This course is an exploration of the practices and problems involved in teaching mathematics and science to fourth and fifth grade students reflective of the National Middle School Association (NMSA) and the Ohio Academic Content Standards. The course involves a study of the appropriate methods including teaming and co-teaching needed to create an active learning environment that engages a diverse population of students. Problem solving, inquiry-based teaching and learning, cooperative learning and the use of technology, the nature of science and the scientific instruction and diagnostic techniques as they apply to the fourth and fifth grade setting. Special emphasis is given to safety in the science classroom and laboratory. Candidates apply the knowledge and skills obtained from this course in a planned sequence of professional field experiences with young adolescents in a fourth and fifth grade setting under the supervision of qualified university and school-based facility. Prereq: Faculty Permission Required Coreq: EDMC 5477 and EDMC 5478 4 lecture hours $