This introductory course will address the construction, evaluation, and selection of educational and psychological assessments. Topics of study will include reliability, validity, item writing, summative and formative classroom assessments, grading, rubrics, score interpretation and use (including norm- and criterion-referencing), and social issues related to testing. Prerequisite(s): junior or senior class standing.
- Teacher: Timothy McLaughlin
The course focuses on instructional planning, tools for literacy instruction, text complexity, leveled texts, responses to literature through dialogic teaching, designing literacy instruction to support close readings of complex texts informed by literary theory and disciplinary knowledge, reading and writing argumentative and explanatory texts; using technology to promote literacy; analyzing the symbiotic relationship between words and pictures in visual, digital, and multi-genre texts.
- Teacher: Marlena Peduzzi
In this course, students will learn and discuss best practices of classroom and behavior management (e.g., time, materials, and managing student behavior) for both individual and group instruction. Students will also explore the federal and state laws regarding professional and legal responsibilities when working will all students, including students with disabilities and students whose first language is not English.
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