GRED 606G - Advanced Secondary Geography Instruction

3 Credit(s)

Examines curriculum and instruction in secondary school Geography. Attention is given to international and national projects, recent developments at the state level, and selected locally designed curricula. This course integrates student experiences in their student teaching to a higher level of understanding of the challenges to contemporary teaching of Geography at the middle-secondary school levels. A major focus will be adopting lesson plans to meet the special needs of student demographics. Students will research current methodologies specific to the impact culture, gender and economic class has on learning in order to develop content and teaching methodologies with the goal of optimizing student academic performance at the middle and secondary school levels. Discussions on culture and the role culture plays in developing learning styles and perceptions will be integrated into presentations and activities designed to enhance geographic pedagogy. Exploring resources that are inclusive of a wide realm of human diversity will be a key goal of this course. Summer only.

Prerequisite(s): for MST students: GRED 681 and GRED 688G. Permission of instructor.