9 courses with the subject MED, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
MED 430Science Methods: Middle School3
FALL A study of the purposes, methods, planning, instruction, and evaluation techniques for teaching in middle school classrooms. The course provides new research, strategies, and philosophies to best meet the needs of young adolescents. A corresponding clinical field experience augments classroom readings, discussions, and activities. An emphasis is placed on developmentally appropriate practices, reading across the curriculum, diverse student needs, and multilingual learners. Clinical field experience in an approved site is required [ MED 430C ]. This course provides teacher candidates with the educational theory, organizational structure, and instructional strategies central to middle school science education. Students write lesson plans and assessments using Minnesota Science standards. Instruction will focus on scientific knowledge to draw inferences or conclusions, explaining diagrams and graphs in terms of scientific content, and research in science education. Teacher candidates will demonstrate an understanding of inquiry based teaching/learning, the student as scientist, and hands-on science experimentation in the classroom. Offered alternate years (odd)
FALL This experience provides an opportunity for students to gain understanding and skills needed to teach middle school aged students. Students will observe and apply the theory and skills they have developed in the college classroom to practical situations in a middle-school learning environment. Students will complete assignments required by the course Cooperating teachers complete an evaluation of performance. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading. Offered alternate years (odd)
FALL A study of the purposes, methods, planning, instruction, and evaluation techniques for teaching in middle school classrooms. The course provides new research, strategies, and philosophies to best meet the needs of young adolescents. A corresponding clinical field experience augments classroom readings, discussions, and activities. An emphasis is placed on developmentally appropriate practices, reading across the curriculum, diverse student needs, and multilingual learners. Clinical field experience in an approved site is required [ MED 430C ]. This course provides teacher candidates with the educational theory, organizational structure, and instructional strategies central to middle school social studies education. Students write lesson plans and assessments using Minnesota Social Studies standards. Instruction will focus on research-based social studies methods teaching practices for social studies content such as critical thinking, historical perspectives and viewpoints, citizenship and government, economics, geography, US and world history, ethnic studies, culturally relevant teaching, and current affairs. Offered alternate years (odd)
MED 432Communication Arts and Literature Methods: Middle School3
FALL A study of the purposes, methods, planning, instruction, and evaluation techniques for teaching in middle school classrooms. The course provides new research, strategies, and philosophies to best meet the needs of young adolescents. A corresponding clinical field experience augments classroom readings, discussions, and activities. An emphasis is placed on developmentally appropriate practices, reading across the curriculum, diverse student needs, and multilingual learners. Clinical field experience in an approved site is required [ MED 430C ]. This course provides teacher candidates with the educational theory, organizational structure, and instructional strategies central to middle school communication arts and literature education. Students write lesson plans and assessments using Minnesota Communication Arts and Literature standards. Instruction will focus on research-based teaching practices for communication arts and literature content including reading, writing, speaking, viewing, listening and media literacy, and language strands. vocabulary acquisition, developing literacy skills, and the developmental, cultural, and linguistic differences in readers. Offered alternate years (odd)
FALL A study of the purposes, methods, planning, instruction, and evaluation techniques for teaching in middle school classrooms. The course provides new research, strategies, and philosophies to best meet the needs of young adolescents. A corresponding clinical field experience augments classroom readings, discussions, and activities. An emphasis is placed on developmentally appropriate practices, reading across the curriculum, diverse student needs, and multilingual learners. Clinical field experience in an approved site is required [ MED 430C ]. This course provides teacher candidates with the educational theory, organizational structure, and instructional strategies central to middle school mathematics education. Students write lesson plans and assessments using Minnesota Mathematics standards. Instruction will focus on NCTM Principles to Action including conceptual mathematical understanding and research-based essential Mathematics Teaching Practices. Offered alternate years (odd)
MED 454Student Teaching: Middle School Communication Arts and Literature4
SPRING Direct teaching experience in a 5-8 grade classroom for elementary education majors with a middle school communication arts and literature endorsement or secondary communication arts and literature education majors. Student teachers observe, participate, teach and engage in extra-class activities under the supervision of selected cooperating teachers and a teacher education faculty member in an approved middle school communication arts and literature classroom.
SPRING Direct teaching experience in a 5-8 grade classroom for elementary education majors with a middle school science endorsement. Student teachers observe, participate, teach and engage in extra-class activities under the supervision of selected cooperating teachers and a teacher education faculty member in an approved middle school science classroom.
MED 456Student Teaching: Middle School Social Studies4
SPRING Direct teaching experience in a 5-8 grade classroom for elementary education majors with a middle school social studies endorsement or secondary social studies education majors. Student teachers observe, participate, teach and engage in extra-class activities under the supervision of selected cooperating teachers and a teacher education faculty member in an approved middle school science classroom.
SPRING Direct teaching experience in a 5-8 grade classroom for elementary education majors with a middle school math endorsement. Student teachers observe, participate, teach and engage in extra-class activities under the supervision of selected cooperating teachers and a teacher education faculty member in an approved middle school math classroom.
