Course description:
EDUC 2130. Exploring Learning and Teaching. Explore key aspects of learning and teaching through
examining your own learning processes and those of others, with the goal of applying your knowledge to
enhance the learning of all students in a variety of educational setting and contexts. EDUC 2130 includes
ten hours of field experience.
Prerequisite: None
This course explores key aspects of teaching and learning through an examination of students' learning processes and those of others. Students will apply self-knowledge gained through course work to the learning of all students in a variety of educational settings and contexts. In addition, students will engage in a 10-hour field experience in a local school to integrate course content with observation of learners in classrooms today.
Course purpose:
The course is designed as a fundamental study, which forms the basis for future learning in teacher education and provides an orientation to teaching and learning theories and ideas. The course provides students opportunities to analyze many educational theories and ideas that are a part of our educational system. As a result, some students may learn that teaching is not for them. This is one of the purposes of the course, for it is advantageous to the student to make this decision early in his/her career.
This course has been designed to engage your brain and require critical thinking and reflective thought concerning a variety of educational learning and teaching ideas. It is important to note that there are no solid answers to most educational ideas. Therefore, your work in this class will reflect individual and personal responses and supported rationales. Each student will not respond to a particular educational idea in the same manner as another student; and this is normal, desired, and expected. There are no "correct" answers. Critical and thoughtful responses to most educational questions are the norm.