CIT505 Teaching for Conceptual Integration for Reading/Language Arts and Science

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 science. Assertions that cross these school subjects include: - Evidence is used to find, generate, and support understanding. - Strategic reading and reflective science are metacognitive processes - Communication requires consideration of audience - Conceptual understanding requires both creative and divergent thinking. - Understanding results from analysis of both the perspective and the evidence. - Conceptual understanding results from consideration of misconceptions, discrepant events, and existing knowledge. - Language and sign systems (of science) facilitate the understanding of scientific experts. Prerequisites: Admission to the program; CIT501, CIT502, and EPS541. 3 Semester Hours.