SCED 307 - Adolescent Psychology

3 Credits
3 hours per week.

This course is designed to provide the pre- service teacher with an opportunity to familiarize himself/ herself with the problems and phenomena of adolescence. The course emphasizes research-and experience-based principles of effective practice that the preservice teacher can employ to encourage the intellectual, social, and personal development of students. Additionally, it emphasizes research-and-experience-based principles of individual and group motivation that the pre-service teacher can employ to ensure that his/her students engage in positive social interactions and active learning activities, and exhibit self-motivational behavioral tendencies. Procedures for ensuring that pre-service teachers acquire strategies for developing assessment competencies in their students will be emphasized. Observation in the secondary school is required.

Prerequisite(s) EDUC 200