ED 5450 - Curriculum and Assessment in Secondary Education

This course is designed to prepare teacher candidates to face the challenges of planning, implementing, and assessing instruction. Emphasis is placed on developing differentiated unit and lesson plans that consider the needs of all learners, as well as instructional tasks that will engage learners. Finally, teacher candidates will examine the assessment process, designing and embedding appropriate formative and summative assessment strategies to improve the teaching and learning cycles. Program requires a grade of “CB” or better.

Note: May repeat course one time only. Open to graduate students only.

Prerequisites/Corequisites: Corequisites: ED 5310 and ES 5200

Credits: 2 hours

Restrictions: Restricted to graduate students accepted into the Post-Baccalaureate Program for Initial Certification in Secondary Education.