EDMG 436 Middle Grades Capstone

XL: EDMG 536 This course provides a culminating opportunity for students to integrate research-based knowledge and best practices skills from the middle grades program coursework in a capstone project. The project is built around the proposition that effective teaching is based on subject matter knowledge and subject-specific pedagogy, knowledge of one’s students, involvement of students in monitoring their own learning, reflection and action on candidate-based and student-base evidence of the effect of instruction on student learning and the role of research and theory about how students learn. This course should be taken the semester prior to student teaching. PRQ: Passing score on the Illinois Basic Skills Exam or the Test of Academic Proficiency (TAP) or the ACT Plus Writing/SAT composite Scheduled: Fall and spring, yearly Meets: N, O

Credits

3

Cross Listed Courses

EDMG 536