CIT501 Teaching for Conceptual Integration in Reading/Language Arts and Mathematics

The course focuses on how student learning can be enhanced when a teacher blends together instructional methods that help students integrate concepts, ideas, processes, and contexts from the curricular areas of reading/language arts and mathematics. Assertions that cross these school subjects include: - Sign Systems (language and mathematics) are used to represent ideas and to communicate to others. - Thought and sign systems are related and have levels of abstraction. - Language and figures of speech are used to facilitate the understanding of mathematical concepts. - Sign systems cross cultures - Sign systems facilitate problem solving. Prerequisites: Admission to program; EPS541 (which may be taken concurrently). 3 Semester Hours.