EDUC 5024 - Models and Methods for Teaching History to Diverse Learners

3 hours

Prerequisites: EDUC 5401
Co-requisite: EDUC 5402 This course prepares MAT candidates with a background in the liberal arts to design and deliver lessons and units of study for diverse adolescents through theoretically-informed models and methods for the teaching of history based on the Georgia Standards of Excellence. It will require candidates to examine the nature and structure of history and its various subspecialties with regard to fostering students’ capacity for historical thinking, historical literacy, inquiry and problem solving. In the accompanying professional lab, candidates begin a history-related action research study in the course. Prerequisites: Successful completion of EDUC 5401 Early Field Studies and professional pass level score on appropriate GACE