Dual Credit Instructional Design and Practice

This seminar-based course consists of the study of instructional strategies for experienced secondary education teachers. The course examines the research and theory that correspond to the development and implementation of advanced instructional strategies. 

Course outcomes below describe the knowledge, skills, and abilities you will leave this course with. By the end of this course, you will be able to:

1. Analyze the relevance of readiness and rigor in dual credit learning contexts.
2. Analyze concepts central to Learning-Centered Instruction and their impact on readiness and rigor in dual credit learning contexts.
3. Categorize academic content information into specific functions of knowledge for subject matter comprehension.
4. Analyze current instructional practices using the Learning-Centered framework.
5. Identify learning strategies that might be effective for developing students' content comprehension based on their alignment with learning actions and knowledge functions.
6. Design assessments that effectively measure students’ content comprehension and learning strategy proficiency.
7. Design teaching practices that explicitly incorporate both learning strategies (readiness) and subject matter knowledge (rigor) for a particular content area.