Reading Practices
Learning to read and reading to learn are significant to child and adolescent development across grade levels and disciplines. In particular, Elementary education students engage in direct reading with children, assess skills, and support K-6 students in continuous reading growth. Coe's Methods, Diagnostic Reading, English Language Learners, and Children/Adolescent Literature courses each provide students with a foundation of research, instruction, practice, and preparation to support young readers.
Exploring Learning
How do we learn? How do teachers create meaningful learning experiences? How are schools changing? Coe students in Educational Foundations focus on such questions. Throughout the semester, students observe and explore approaches to teaching and learning. Spring classes visited Summit School, Johnson Elementary, Erskine Elementary, Roosevelt Middle, McKinley Middle, Washington High School, and Metro High School---and tagged along with Pre-K learners for a lesson in Iowa plants on the trails of Creekside Forest School.
Parent and Families
Teachers and parents/guardians are teammates in a child's learning and progress. Students in Reading Methods carefully outlined their plans for spring parent/guardian conferences and practiced their communication skills in mock conversations. The course assignment is one that emphasizes preparation and content knowledge, strengthens approaches to communication with families, and demonstrates the teacher's assessment of the learner.
May there be no missing piece, please
Many education classes take place in Stuart Hall 403--it's a bit of a back-to-back location for students throughout the day! As such, a nook for hanging out between classes includes an area where creative thinking often takes place, including collaborative effort to solve puzzles.
Surprise class connections
Guest speaker Stephanie Stulken (left) of Kids on Course did not anticipate the surprise recognition from a former elementary student. Kaylei (now a May 2024 graduate) and Stulken reconnected during a spring class in Human Relations for the Classroom Teacher.
