ELED 435: Curriculum and Methods for Teaching in the Elementary School

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ELED 435 Curriculum and Methods for Teaching in
the Elementary School
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ELED 435

• Please construct a name tag
• Collect the course materials
• Say hello to a classmate

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ELED 435

• Objectives Based on todays class experiences
• Students will describe course information and
  activities
• Students will define the role of science in the
  elementary curriculum
• Students apply inquiry as a tool for classroom
  instruction
• Students will develop an initial definition for
  the Nature of Science

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Engagement Draw-a-scientist

• How similar is yours to the one on the right?

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Exploration Consequences

• Are there any consequences for such a view of a
  scientist?
• How do those views/preconceived notions resonate
  with you?

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Explanation Learning Standards

• What are the purposes of Learning Standards?
• What values are embedded in the various learning
  standards?

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National Science Education Standards

• Changing emphases

Retrieved from http//www.nap.edu/readingroom/boo
ks/nses/html/
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NSES Core

• Science Teaching
• Professional Development
• Assessment
• Science Content
• Science Education Programs
• Science Education Systems

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National Council for the Social Studies

• Culture
• Time, Continuity, and Change
• People, Places, and Environment
• Individual Development and Identity
• Individuals, Groups, and Institutions

• Power, Authority, and Governance
• Production, Distribution, and Consumption
• Science, Technology, and Society
• Global Connections
• Civic Ideals and Practices

Retrieved from http//www.socialstudies.org/stand
ards/strands/
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Common Threads

• Science and Social Studies
• Content knowledge
• Process skills

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Illinois Learning Standards

• Informed by NSES and NCSS standards
• Provides foundation for local school district
  curriculum
• Serve as the instructional foundation for
  materials that you create for this class

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Illinois Learning Standards

• Science
• Goal 11 - Inquiry and Design
• Goal 12 - Concepts and Principles
• Goal 13 - Science, Technology and Society 

• Social Studies
• Goal 14 - Political Systems
• Goal 15 - Economics
• Goal 16 - History
• Goal 17 - Geography
• Goal 18 - Social Systems

Retrieved from http//www.isbe.state.il.us/ils/
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Extension Connecting with Standards and
Practices

• Follow instructors instructions
• Generate the following in writing
• A list of questions that the activity inspires
• Identify experiences where inquiry is evident
• Connections with the standards noted previously

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Implementing the Standards Review of Course
Syllabus

• Course syllabus
• Course materials
• Texts
• http//faculty.roosevelt.edu/King/
• Rather than BlackBoard
• Field experiences
• Your instructors

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Evaluation

• Record in writing responses to the following
• 3 things that you learned today
• 2 things that you will take with you into your
  teaching, based on this mornings conversation
• 1 question that still remains