ELED 316 - Curriculum Principles and Instructional Management

3 credits
3 hours per week.

This course is designed to provide the pre-service teacher with requisite skills and knowledge related to the objectives to be achieved through the design and implementation of the elementary and middle school curricula. Factors related to instructional management and their implications with respect to the delivery of the curriculum in the practice of teaching in the elementary and middle school classroom are explored. Specifically, this course emphasizes the need for the planning and management of instruction to be based on knowledge of the targeted content area, sound principles of curriculum design and identified community concerns. Emphasis is placed on strategies requisite to the acquisition of State and National Assessment outcomes. Observation in elementary and/or middle schools is a required activity.

Prerequisite(s) EDUC 200.