ELEM 511 - Elementary Education Methods II: STEAM

• Prepare instruction that integrates science and engineering practices, crosscutting concepts, and disciplinary core ideas (NGSS) through culturally-relevant and interdisciplinary approaches.
• Develop effective questioning and facilitation skills and assessment strategies in order to guide students in hands-on/minds-on exploration of science.
• Design developmental learning progressions, including conceptual and procedural milestones, common misconceptions, and assessments, based on state/national standards within elementary math and science content domain.
• Adapt learning tasks for elementary grades by embedding the Standards for Mathematical Practice
• Use a variety of mathematical models and instructional strategies (technology & manipulatives) to design and enhance lessons that deepen student conceptual understanding using problem solving.
• Implement the Mathematics Teaching Practices to facilitate learning activities towards a deep conceptual understanding of mathematical problem solving, argumentation, fluency, number sense, proportional reasoning, probability and statistics.
• Demonstrate thinking skills using the artistic processes of creating, performing, and responding by making connections to STEM disciplines and the development of 21st Century Skills.