Educational Theory and Practice in Teaching English 1

This course is designed to help MAT students make connections between the theory and the practice of teaching English in the secondary schools. This fast-paced summer course includes a Brown Summer High School practicum teaching experience in the morning and an intensive methods class that accompanies it in the afternoon. The class will focus on high leverage practices for teaching English and visible learning for literacy, particularly in the heterogeneous untracked high school classroom. This workshop-based class focuses specifically on methods for creating a constructivist, student-centered English classroom with high school students from diverse backgrounds in the mainstream classroom.