EDUC 615 | Seminar in Critically Reflective Teaching

In this course students engage in reflective cycles of teaching practice. Using their teaching internship as a source of inquiry, students make their practice public, share teaching issues, and problem-solve through collegial dialogue. Participants critically reflect on curriculum, student learning, and student identities by posing questions, surfacing assumptions, reframing issues, and developing action steps to transform their teaching. Students engage with critical frameworks to inform culturally responsive and anti-racist teaching, identifying and examining their own identities, biases, and social locations. As a signature assessment, students draw upon video of their teaching to deepen their understanding of classrooms and to articulate their engagement with standards. To prepare for job searches and interviews, students engage with school district administrators and human resource personnel. This course is taken in conjunction with EDUC 622, Student Teaching.