EDU+221

EDU 221 - Secondary Methods & Practicum Block
This course is designed to provide pre-service middle school and secondary education majors with the skills to develop an integrated approach to teaching and learning. It will cover models of instruction and planning, teaching and learning styles, assessment strategies, models and organization of curriculum, classroom management, and the role of technology and media within these. These topics will be addressed in conjunction with practical experience in a real classroom. In the classroom, teacher candidates work with individuals, small groups and the whole class.

Classroom Management Portion
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 * COURSE MATERIALS REQUIRED FOR TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION & CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT**
 * Textbook for Technology Integration: A variety of articles, Web sites, and essays to be selected and assigned throughout the semester. There is no traditional textbook for this course.
 * Textbook for Classroom Management: [|Fires in the Bathroom] plus articles, Web sites, and essays assigned throughout the semester.
 * High capacity data storage (256MB or larger drive)
 * the hard drive on your laptop
 * pen drive/USB drive/jump drive/flash drive
 * [|an iPod can be used for this purpose]
 * For video work, teams may need a "mini-DV" tape. You may also want to burn your final movie project onto a DVD-R (Make sure it is a DVD "dash" R, not a DVD "plus" R)
 * A way to back up all of your data
 * if you are using one of the devices above for storage (laptop, iPod, pen drive), one of the others could be used for backup
 * attaching your file to an email works sometimes, but many email providers limit the size of attachments; know your email capabilities
 * UMF provides you with an H: drive on your eCampus account
 * Your own blog account on blogger.com (we will set this up in class if you don't already have one) and a blog dedicated to this portion of the EDU 221 course. (We will set up the blog in class as well.) You will use the same blog for both Technology Integration and Classroom Management.