Teacher Certification Internship Program Courses
Completed at Michigan State University, 2009-2010
TE 801 Professional Roles and Teaching Practice I Download syllabus
(Elementary Mathematics)
Description: Teachers' professional and ethical responsibilities. Connections of schools to other social agencies. Relations of teachers to colleagues, families, other social service providers, and community leaders. Roles in school governance.
"Through a set of readings, assignments, reflections, and discussions, you will be exposed to group work, understanding the nature of the classroom, looking beyond a single lesson by planning units, and interviewing and transcribing students to assess not only their understanding of the material but also your teaching methods. We will expand our understanding of teaching elementary mathematics by working on tasks that examine measurement, data & statistics, and geometry."
TE 802 Reflection and Inquiry in Teaching Practice I Download syllabus
(Elementary English Language Arts)
Description: Qualitative and quantitative research methods on teaching and learning. Criteria for judging the validity and applicability of research-based knowledge. Framing educational problems worthy of inquiry. Designing and assessing studies of teaching practice.
"In reflecting on, discussing, writing about, and comparing core beliefs about literacy and students as literacy learners, and considering the ideas discussed in professional literature, you will make explicit the things you stand for as an educator. You will use the information you gathered throughout your guided lead teaching to interpret assessment information and summarize what you know about students as literacy learners relative to your unit teaching."
TE 803: Professional Roles and Teaching Practice II Download syllabus
(Elementary Social Studies)
Description: School-agency alliances for fostering student learning. Strategies for working with families and community groups to improve responsiveness of the school curriculum to student needs. Child advocacy in the school and community.
"The course will help you explore your professional and ethical responsibilities and will help you develop philosophical frameworks, reflective attitudes and practical skills in curriculum development and responsive teaching practice. We will ask you to think about your purposes, your passions, your stance and the development of your own unique and powerful “teacher-self.”
In this class you will be developing a unit with some level of integration."
TE 804: Reflection and Inquiry in Teaching Practice II Download syllabus
(Elementary Science)
Description: Collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data on teaching, learning, and educational policy. Dilemmas surrounding research on practice. Appraising and reporting results of inquiry.
"This course includes the science portion of your internship year coursework. It is designed to help you teach science in elementary classrooms. This course will help you reflect and build on ideas and concepts taught in prior teacher education courses. The focus of this course will be on supporting you in developing standards-based practices in planning, teaching, and assessment. You will prepare a complete plan for 3-4 weeks of science instruction "
Nicole Lewis (616) 450-1318 [email protected]