The Teaching Profession: Birth-Grade 6

Overview

Subject area

EDU

Catalog Number

141

Course Title

The Teaching Profession: Birth-Grade 6

Department(s)

Description

Study of the professional lives of teachers and the diverse roles they assume in urban schools. Work with teachers developing children's multiple literacies including linguistic, mathematical, technologies, artistic, and musical, with an emphasis on how children use oral and written language to communicate and construct meaning; emphasis on how communities of learners are created. Requires visits to early childhood and childhood settings with diverse populations and contrasting social and economic environments and the development of an academic portfolio. Thirty hours of field work is required.

Typically Offered

Fall, Spring

Academic Career

Undergraduate

Liberal Arts

No

Credits

Minimum Units

3

Maximum Units

3

Academic Progress Units

3

Repeat For Credit

No

Components

Name

Lecture

Hours

3

Requisites

010623

Course Schedule