MACI 421 - Secondary Content Area Methods

Prerequisite, admission to the MACI track. This course, taught with special class sessions and activities devoted to each core content area (English/Language Arts, Mathematics, Sciences, History/Social Science), centers on methods for content area instruction in departmentalized secondary classrooms. Using the California State, Common Core, and Next Generation Science Standards as the base, candidates learn to create constructivist content curriculum and lesson plans, utilize instructional models appropriate to their content area, adapt different models of teaching to meet student needs and interests and those unique to the academic discipline, and use technology and resources specific to their content area. Some sections of this course may meet with EDUC 578. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits