ED 144A — Student Voice and Classroom Discourse
Open to all, priority for Ed Studies and teacher licensure students. Two credits of accompanying fieldwork are available for all students through ED 60a. This is required for students pursuing teacher licensure.
Teaching is about students, who they are, how they learn, and what they bring to the classroom, that is: their funds of knowledge. While traditional teaching uses a "banking model" in which teachers “deposit” information into students’ empty brains; this course reimagines what that bank would look like if students were the ones with the funds. In this course, participants practice classroom structures in which students, rather than teachers, do the bulk of the intellectual work. The course examines the small interactions in classrooms (micro) to understand big ideas about education (macro).
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