EDHM 572 - Planning and Assessment in Middle and High Schools

(3 credits)
Prerequisite: EDHM 571 with minimum grade of “B-“
Candidates for initial licensure will backward design lessons and units beginning with their content’s MA Curriculum Frameworks. These lessons will include strategies for disciplinary and digital literacy (per the ELA/Literacy and Digital Literacy/Computer Science Frameworks). Candidates will construct various kinds of assessments, including performance assessments, formal/informal assessments and formative/summative assessments. Candidates will discuss standardized assessment and its uses in public education. Candidates will be required to teach successfully a lesson in a secondary classroom as their second gateway assessment. 10 pre-practicum hours that make use of the state’s Candidate Assessment of Performance (CAP) indicators are required.