Teaching and Learning Courses

FCS Essentials   200113   Grade:  9-10   Credit:  1

This comprehensive course provides an opportunity for acquiring basic life skills and guides students to explore and select specific areas for concentrated study. Emphasis is on family, employability skills, adolescent development, the introduction of textiles, interiors and design, financial management, parenting, establishing healthy relationships, creating a foundation for healthy lifestyles, and nutrition. Recommended Grade Level: 9 – 10 

The Learning Community   331030   Grade:  10-12     Credit:  1 

In this course, students develop an understanding of the various responsibilities and systems involved in the K-12 educational system. Specifically, students will acquire the knowledge of education through the perspective of the classroom, school, district, state, and federal roles. In clinical experiences, students are embedded in an observational and small group or individual teaching settings. They engage with students, schools, and stakeholders across the community to better understand how the community functions as a system, noting how elements within the system relate and interact and the impact on students.

The Learner-Centered Classroom   331031   Grade 10-12    Credit:  1

This course will develop rising educators’ awareness of their funds of knowledge, as well as their personal biases that develop from their life experiences. Using research-based methods, rising educators will develop methods to impact student equity based on culturally competent models as well as growth mindset methods. The students will be embedded in classrooms in observing and active teaching roles (any of the 5 co-teaching models). They will experience a variety of settings in order to reflect on their developing understanding and skills across the K-12 spectrum.

The Professional Educator   331032  Grade 11-12   Credit:  1

In this course, students will develop an understanding of how educators advance their profession within the classroom. Specifically, students will gain both the knowledge and skills to plan, deliver, and reflect on the process of teaching and learning. In clinical experiences, students are deeply embedded in classroom settings, actively practicing the skills they are studying and reflecting on the results to deepen their understanding. The extended time in the classroom provides an opportunity to study at length a particular group of students and the discipline. 

Prerequisites: The Learning Community AND The Learner-Centered Classroom 

Principles of Career and Technical Education   331034   Grade:  12   Credit: 1 

This course is designed to provide a general overview of career and technical education including program areas, components, philosophy, and current trends and issues. Students will examine a variety of topics including the history of Career and Technical Education (CTE), work-based learning, career and technical student organizations, advisory councils, professional organizations as well as the influence of legislation on Career and Technical Education (CTE).

Collaborative Clinical Experience   331033  Grade:  12    Credit: 1 

In this course, students will refine the required knowledge and skills to be effective educators while also practicing the dispositions necessary for the educational profession. Specifically, students will gain an understanding of how teachers lead through individual and collaborative growth and reflection. Students participate in clinical experiences. This is a student teaching experience where students should spend almost all their time in a classroom learning setting appropriate to their intended teaching discipline. 

Prerequisites: The Learning Community AND The Learner-Centered Classroom

**HC Schools is currently working to partner with area Colleges and Universities to offer some of these courses as dual credit.