STP 303 - Knowing and Learning

Description:
Examination of learning theories and research for effective STEM teaching and assessment, including implications for content literacy, language diversity, cultural responsiveness, technology, and professionalism. Course will be offered every year. Course will not have an established scheduling pattern.

Prerequisites:
Prerequisites: full admittance to the CWU STEM Teaching Program and Teacher Certification Program.

Credits: (4)

Learner Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

Construct developmentally appropriate models of knowing and learning to guide classroom practice.
Plan, conduct, and evaluate a clinical interview to make sense of student reasoning about a topic in mathematics or science.
Analyze various standards for knowing science and mathematics and articulate the implications of these standards for assessment, especially standardized assessment.
Describe what it means to know and learn relative to cognitive structures and provide research-based evidence on how it changes and develops.
Describe and analyze various paradigms, techniques, and technologies for evaluating mathematics and science understanding.
Describe and analyze the ways teachers promote, influence, and reinforce culture in the classroom.
Describe and analyze evidence-based opinions on current issues and tensions in education such as second language acquisition and students with exceptionalities, especially as they relate to mathematics and science instruction.
Examine and analyze the implications of deficit models of learning on issues of equitable instruction and learning environments using the framework of IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) as a guide.
Evaluate and apply professional research on K-12 educational policy and law for the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).
Explain and analyze how research on individual and group learning theories can be used to analyze classroom cultural scenarios requiring management/intervention strategies and their influence on individual and group motivation.