This exercise provides opportunity for open philosophical discussion in the classroom, and …
This exercise provides opportunity for open philosophical discussion in the classroom, and promotes collaborative inquiry among students. It gives students direct experience of using the basic intellectual tools of philosophical inquiry. These include: clarifying what is at issue, seeking definitions, questioning definitions, spotting assumptions, evaluating inferential reasoning or moral judgments, presenting and examining evidence or explicit arguments.
This is a syllabus for a course in computational thinking. The course …
This is a syllabus for a course in computational thinking. The course described introduces preservice and inservice teachers to the fundamental concepts of computer science, including web design, coding, ethics, computational thinking, course resources, etc.
This OER course unit is designed as part of an undergraduate literacy …
This OER course unit is designed as part of an undergraduate literacy methods course. The unit will highlight teacher candidates’ digital storytelling practices and their development of teachable lesson plans and tutorials for local primary grade classrooms.
Development and application of modern statistical methods, including such elements of descriptive …
Development and application of modern statistical methods, including such elements of descriptive statistics and statistical inference as correlation and regression analysis, probability theory, sampling procedures, normal distribution and binomial distribution, estimation, and testing of hypotheses.
This OER features the introductory week of EDC 310 in which teacher …
This OER features the introductory week of EDC 310 in which teacher candidates will learn to use methods of cultural anthropology to learn to be an observant classroom teacher and ethnographer, collect weekly data through weekly classroom fieldwork featuring their child partners, as well as enact culturally-responsive literacy teaching lessons for their child partners on a weekly basis.
This course will focus on the development of students’ ability to understand …
This course will focus on the development of students’ ability to understand the changing world in which they live.They develop this by utilizing a broad range of thinking skills and learning styles to promote meaningful and deep learning.
This syllabus was created for undergraduate students majoring in Secondary Education. The …
This syllabus was created for undergraduate students majoring in Secondary Education. The class topics and accompanying readings were organized to create a comprehensive overview of adolescent development as it relates to educators teaching adolescent students. The readings were picked specifically to encourage critical thinking and analysis of the class topics.
This is a sample syllabus for a first-year writing course. The course …
This is a sample syllabus for a first-year writing course. The course is designed for online remote classes but can be used easily face-to-face as well.
This is a syllabus designed to work as a "frame" that you …
This is a syllabus designed to work as a "frame" that you can use and populate together with students. The goal is to provide a perspective from environmental psychology.
Students read about drugs which enhance student academic performance.They will connect the …
Students read about drugs which enhance student academic performance.They will connect the found information to prior course material, addressing neuroanatomy and neurophysiology as well as connect to the attention course chapter. Students will also delve into the ethical components of the use of brain enchasing drugs and compare them to sports performance-enhancing drugs.
The goal of this assignment is for students to explore how technology …
The goal of this assignment is for students to explore how technology can be used to enhance student learning and strengthen student appreciation of the mathematical content they are studying. This assignment asks students to identify a technology resource/tool and evaluate its applicability to study at the secondary school level.
This is a two-fold first-year college writing Research Writing assignment. In the …
This is a two-fold first-year college writing Research Writing assignment. In the first part, students do research into their own family/community history. In the second part, they select a particular person, moment, place, or time that they learned about during their genealogical research, and this will become the subject of their research project in the areas of sociology, geography, environmental studies, psychology, or medicine. Students choose what question they would like to explore further and the question itself stems from their family history findings.
This is a research proposal assignment, including a student worksheet, for a …
This is a research proposal assignment, including a student worksheet, for a first-year composition classroom. This assignment is used as part of the inventive stages of the first-year research essay. It allows students an introduction to a new genre along with the opportunity to practice college-level research. The proposal acts as a tool for students to work towards developing a thesis driven essay. The worksheet helps guide students through this new genre by offering a template for content. This proposal works as a pedagogical tool allowing the instructor to offer meaningful feedback to guide the student through the critical thinking and research process.
In this upper elementary mathematics education assignment, the prospective teachers gain hands-on …
In this upper elementary mathematics education assignment, the prospective teachers gain hands-on experience in measuring distances in feet and inches, calculating areas, and converting distance and area measurements. Moreover, they solve a real-life situation by choosing the most economical tiles for their kitchen. This last part (3) of the assignment develops critical thinking and expressing one's thought processes. Part 3 can be used as an in-class discussion, which further promotes reasoning skills.
Guía básica de análisis del documental Rigoberta Menchú: Daughter of the Maya …
Guía básica de análisis del documental Rigoberta Menchú: Daughter of the Maya (Dawn Gifford Engle, 2016). La guía está destinada, principalmente, a estudiantes de español. Se compone de una breve serie de preguntas para antes, durante y después del visionado. El objetivo es ayudar a la comprensión del documental por parte de los estudiantes y fomentar la discusión en clase.
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