Courses

A course designed to provide students with instructional experience in a classroom setting. Students are assigned to the Department of Religion and Theology, Oakwood Adventist Academy, and other educational settings. Students actively participate in classroom instruction that is supervised and assessed. This practicum is structured to allow students to test their teaching skills in a real-life setting.

Acquisition of experience in educational programs and knowledge about the scientific basis for educational strategies and development of materials in conjunction with serving as a course teaching assistant.

Teaching School-Based Agricultural Education & Clinical Professional Experience. Foundations of school-based agricultural education (SBAE) teaching; an overview of preparing teachers for a changing world including knowledge of learners, subject matter and teaching within the context of agricultural science; clinical field experience for teaching agricultural science in public schools of Texas.

Problems in development of science program in the elementary school; facilitating children's learning of science & its concepts and attitudes.

A course using discovery, inquiry and problem-solving approaches as a means of teaching science. Relationships of science to entire early childhood and elementary curriculum is discussed. This course has a required field experience.

Assists the student in organizing materials and in developing methods of teaching science in secondary schools

A course using discovery, inquiry and problem-solving approaches as a means of teaching science. Relationships of science to entire early childhood and elementary curriculum is discussed. This course has a required field experience.

Current trends and issues in early childhood and elementary school science teaching and learning are reviewed.

This course will focus on how secondary students learn Science. Candidates will learn how to develop and design developmentally appropriate lessons in which their students are able to make observations, examine relationships, notice patterns, and make inferences, while confronting naive misconceptions. Candidates will discuss the nature of science (NOS).

This course will focus on how secondary students learn science. Candidates will learn how to develop and design developmentally appropriate lessons in which their students are able to make observations, examine relationships, notice patterns, and make inferences, while confronting naive misconceptions. Candidates will discuss the nature of science (NOS).