Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.

In partnership with the American Museum of Natural History students investigate science, science pedagogical methods, and ways to use New York City as a resource for science teaching and learning. Sessions will be held at Barnard and the museum. Field trips and fieldwork required. Non-science majors and pre-service elementary students welcome.

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 25 students. Permission of instructor.

Study of critical issues confronting education today and their relation to contemporary society. Topics include equity in learning experiences for bilingual, culturally diverse, gifted, and disabled students�girls and boys. The impact of technology, school choice, and standards will be addressed. Fieldwork required.

Prerequisites: Completion of EDUC BC2052 or BC2062 and BC2055.
Corequisites: EDUC BC3064. Enrollment limited.

Supervised student teaching in elementary or secondary schools includes creating lesson plans, involving students in active learning, using cooperative methods, developmentally appropriate assessment, and meeting the needs of diverse learners in urban schools. Teaching skills developed through weekly individual and/or group supervision meetings (to be scheduled at the beginning of the semester), conferences, and portfolio design. Requires 100 hours of teaching at two different grade levels, full-time for one semester.

Corequisites: EDUC BC3063,y. Enrollment limited to student teachers enrolled in the Education Program.

Designed to help student teachers develop as reflective practictioners who can think critically about issues facing urban schools, particularly how race, class and gender influence schooling; and to examine the challenges and possibilities for providing intellectually engaging, meaningful curriculum to all students in urban classrooms.

Prerequisites: This course is a pre-requisite for student teaching in elementary schools. Open to Education Program applicants; others only with permission of instructor.
Corequisites: This course should be taken in the spring term of the junior year with corequisite EDUC BC2055, Elementary Urban School Practicum.

Provides prospective teachers with theory and methods for teaching elementary school subjects (grades 1-6) to meet intellectual, social and emotional needs of diverse learners. Topics include foundations of multicultural, student-centered and critical pedagogies, all aspects of literacy, utilizing literacy across content areas, constructivist mathematics instruction, authentic assessment, diversity and inclusion.

Corequisites: Section 1, Elementary, EDUC BC2052 or Section 2, Secondary, EDUC BC2062. Meets for two hours per week, plus a minimum of six hours per week in the field.

Consists of weekly class meetings combined with elementary, middle or high school classroom internship (depending on desired certification level). Students observe and apply theoretical principles of pedagogy to teaching and learning. Class meetings provide opportunities to reflect on internship and focus on instructional strategies and classroom management techniques.

Prerequisites: This course is a prerequisite for student teaching in secondary schools; grade of B or better required to continue.
Corequisites: This course should be taken in the spring term of the junior year with corequisite EDUC BC2055. Open to Education Program applicants; others only with permission of instructor.

Prospective teachers explore methods for teaching English, social studies, the sciences (biology, physics, earth science and chemistry), mathematics, ancient and foreign languages (Grades 7-12). Topics include multicultural, critical pedagogical methods appropriate to specific content areas, content area standards and literacy, diversity, inclusion, and assessment.

Prerequisites: Completion of EDUC BC2052 or BC2062 and BC2055.
Corequisites: EDUC BC3064. Enrollment limited.

Supervised student teaching in elementary or secondary schools includes creating lesson plans, involving students in active learning, using cooperative methods, developmentally appropriate assessment, and meeting the needs of diverse learners in urban schools. Teaching skills developed through weekly individual and/or group supervision meetings (to be scheduled at the beginning of the semester), conferences, and portfolio design. Requires 100 hours of teaching at two different grade levels, full-time for one semester.

Corequisites: EDUC BC3063,y. Enrollment limited to student teachers enrolled in the Education Program.

Designed to help student teachers develop as reflective practictioners who can think critically about issues facing urban schools, particularly how race, class and gender influence schooling; and to examine the challenges and possibilities for providing intellectually engaging, meaningful curriculum to all students in urban classrooms.