Course Description

This course focuses on skilling beginning teachers with ways to tackle the complex topic of the Vietnam War.

The course will deconstruct the content into manageable approaches and incorporate effective teaching and learning strategies to suit different learning abilities, presenting complex historical information in a variety of simple structured ways.

Learn more about targeting the most relevant resources to teach and program, improve your ability to assist students’ writing skills when addressing extended response questions and exam techniques.

Explore a variety of ways to teach higher-order thinking skills to students. The course will provide you with different ways to formally and informally assess students' learning.

Audience

- Beginning teachers

- Existing teachers wanting a revivor course

Teaching Standards

2.1.2 Proficient Level - Know the content and how to teach it - Content and teaching strategies of the teaching area:  Apply knowledge of the content and teaching strategies of the teaching area to develop engaging teaching activities,

3.2.2 Proficient Level - Plan for and implement Effective Teaching and Learning - Plan, structure and sequence learning programs:   Plan and implement well-structured learning and teaching programs or lesson sequences that engage students and promote learning,

3.5.2 Proficient Level - Plan for and implement Effective Teaching and Learning - Use effective classroom communication:  Use effective verbal and non-verbal communication strategies to support student understanding, participation, engagement and achievement,

3.3.2 Proficient Level - Plan for and implement Effective Teaching and Learning - Use teaching strategies:  Select and use relevant teaching strategies to develop knowledge, skills, problem-solving, and critical and creative thinking