EDUC 2301

This course is an overview of student populations in public schools.  Besides race and gender, students will also explore the issues of language, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, sexual orientation, academic diversity, and equity with an emphasis on factors that facilitate learning.  Students will spend 16 hours working with students and teachers and apply what is learned in the college classroom to enhance the public school student(s) learning experience.  Student  will then write two reflection papers on what they learned from their hands-on educational experiences.

Students will also study and discuss timely legislation and historical events that have shaped the Texas public education system and how these policies have affected the wide range of student populations, teachers, and parents.  Along the way, students will research a particular student population and present his/her findings to the class.  He/she will also get to practice their "teacher" skills by creating a lesson plan and teaching a lesson to their classmates.

The Post-Covid classroom is a very different place and new teaching tools and methods must be developed and used to offset the social and academic digressions of the pandemic.  We will explore such teaching tools and methods.