SFL 276R
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Exploration of Teaching: Family and Consumer Sciences
Family Life
College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences
Course Description
Field-based initial teaching experience directed at helping prospective teachers experience demands and opportunities associated with teaching secondary students.
When Taught
Fall and Winter
Min
3
Fixed/Max
3
Fixed
2
Fixed
2
Other Prerequisites
Major-area preadmission requirements; FBI fingerprint and background clearance.
Title
Aligning Curriculum and Instructional Goals
Learning Outcome
Students will be able to use the strands and standards developed by the Utah State Board of Education to identify a central conept for planning instruciton appropriate to a particular grade level and topic.
Title
Analyzing Classroom Instruction
Learning Outcome
Students will be able to analyze and describe the family and consumer sciences experiences of adolescents in terms of the tasks, discourse and learning environments they observe in public school classrooms, and can reconcile the theoretical principles of their university experience with the reality of a secondary classroom.
Title
Family and Consumer Sciences Practices
Learning Outcome
Students will be able to understand family and consumer sciences practices and use them to engage in meaningful family and consumer sciences exploration and reflect on their own use of these practices to make inferences about how adolescents might engage in family and consumer sciences tasks.
Title
Philosophy of Teaching and Learning Family and Consumer Sciences
Learning Outcome
Students will be able to articulate a philosophy of teaching and learning family and consumer sciences eductaion based on the professional standards for teaching family and consumer sciences, the moral dimensions of teaching, and the INTASC standards.
