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NVTC 202 - Classroom Interactions

(3 units)
This course provides a close examination of the interplay between teachers, students, and content, and how these interactions enable students to develop deep conceptual understanding.

Prerequisite(s): NVTC 201 .

Grading Basis: Graded
Units of Lecture: 2
Units of Internship/Practicum: 1
Offered: Every Spring

Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. discuss, observe, and analyze how students’ knowledge and skills can be built using a variety of instructional strategies (including direct instruction, inquiry teaching, and use of small groups), focusing on what each model requires of teachers.
2. create and evaluate tasks to build and assess students’ content knowledge based on evidence such as videotaped lessons and written student artifacts.
3. plan and teach, with a small group of peers, multi-day high school mathematics or science lessons on an assigned topic.
4. solve problems in science and mathematics, justify these solutions, and reflect on the role of such problems in the teaching process, taking into account an awareness of the wide range of solution strategies students might employ.
5. collect and analyze data from classroom observations that quantify student participation and performance with regard to equitable and diverse instructional approaches.
6. employ relevant technologies in teaching and analyze how technology can affect classroom interactions.
7. read and analyze research results and theoretical literature in science and mathematics education and cite these results in analyses of their own teaching and reports to their peers.
8. demonstrate beginning competency as measured by applicable teacher certification standards.


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