Teaching Content

Over the past several years we have been engaged in an ongoing collaboration toward integrating literacy and mathematics in our program. Our reading and math methods courses around are similarly structured around a cycle of enactment and investigation, allowing novice teachers to integrate learning about children, content, and practice -- at times around a shared Instructional Activity that spans both content areas (see a list of Instructional Activities here). Teacher educators meet weekly to debrief our teaching, share successes and challenges, and plan for upcoming instruction. Our hope is that a shared class structure and ongoing lines of communication between teacher educators creates a more coherent experience for novice teachers as they navigate the complexities of discipline-specific content and teaching.

One component of integrating our methods courses is the use of shared Instructional Activities (IAs) across methods courses. Read more about connecting math and literacy through shared IAs here.