This course equips prospective science teacher candidates with the skills, strategies, and techniques (including the gender-neutral nature of science) that allow students to develop their interest and enthusiasm for science, problem solving and science literacy. Teacher candidates will participate in and lead hands-on, inquiry-based activities. Teacher candidates also use technology to enhance their own background knowledge and are provided with conceptual framework that embraces the idea that science classrooms provide for individual differences such as gender, ethnicity, culture, and socioeconomic background. A summative final assignment is to create a detailed plan for a science unit on a subject from the Ohio Model Curriculum and to implement it in the field, complete with identified objectives, materials, lessons, teaching strategies, accommodations, assessments, and future planning. This course should be taken with a field practicum.
Prerequisites
Admission to the Teacher Education Program