ED 305 - Brain- Based Planning, Instruction, and Assessment

Institution:

Cazenovia College (Closed 2023)

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Description:

This course will explore the dynamic opportunity for students to explore planning, instruction, and assessment through the lens of neuroscience. Recent findings in neuroscience offer spectacular insight to the amazing developing brain. Topics will include the growth and development of the brain, how learning occurs, memory acquisition/transference/recall, and optimal learning environments. Students will investigate instructional strategies which include Differentiated Instruction, implementing the theory of Multiple Intelligences, Cooperative Learning Structures, Understanding by Design (UbD), and various forms of informal and formal assessment. The Learning Standards, developed by the New York State Department of Education, and the content area standards of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, the National Council of Teachers of Science, the Council for Exceptional Children, and other appropriate groups, will be incorporated into integrated thematic units. This course will have a field placement of minimally 25 hours during the semester.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.cazenovia.edu

Phone Number:

(800) 654-3210

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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