SED SC521

All first-time LAs take SC521, a 2-credit course through the School of Education, to learn about various teaching practices and methods. This invaluable class focuses on general teaching, as well as discipline-specific instruction, and touches on several important topics to help LAs better understand how to effectively work with students. Additionally, LAs are asked to reflect on their own teaching and learning experiences, and to use that understanding to their own advantage.

LAs discuss how there can be multiple correct answers to questions, or how different learning styles can present challenges to both instructors and students

LAs discuss a major challenge for instructors: handling a question when you don’t know the answer

LAs talk about how they can relate to struggling students, when they themselves succeeded in the courses they now teach

At the end of the semester, we have a poster session, where the LAs present a poster on the pedagogical topic of their choice. This is an exciting time for LAs to show off what they’ve learned, but also for them to pursue knowledge of a particular topic that really resonated with them during the semester in relation to the course in which they worked.

Fall 2014 poster session