EDUC 7558 - Critical Pedagogies in the Secondary Years

This course will explore concepts important to the development of expertise in middle and senior secondary school pedagogy through a backwards by design approach. Students will investigate a variety of pedagogical approaches to be implemented at each stage of middle and senior secondary schooling. The investigations will ask students to design learning which sets performance expectations that acknowledge difference in the classroom and promotes safe learning environments. Each investigation will orient to a different stage of schooling and focus, such as cultural diversity; critical thought; inquiry and integrated learning; accountable communities of practice within and across school subjects; student capacity to act upon their ideas and make connections with the world beyond school. The course responds to the APST for graduate teachers and other reform agendas designed to build teacher resources and skills.