What is Educational Foundations and how is it best taught to teachers in training? This question guides the work of this new course, a course that emphasizes the pedagogy of educational foundations. The course is intended for graduate students who intend to teach foundations, and should also be of interest to anyone who will teach required courses to students in pre-service teacher education programs.

Students must also attend no fewer than 6 lectures and 6 discussion section meetings of Education 392, Educational Foundations in a Multicultural Society during the winter term. Those completing the course successfully will have preferential standing for selection as GSIs for Education 392.

The Structure and Function of Preservice Teacher Education

The Place of Educational Foundations in Preservice Teacher Education

The Challenges and Demands of Multicultural Approaches to Foundations

Part II: Designing the Course

Considering the Philosophy, Style and Manner of the Instructor

Curriculum Design and the Construction of the Syllabus

Integrating Foundational and Multicultural Perspectives

The Search for Texts and Related Readings

Determining How to Appraise Student Work

Part III: Teaching the Classes

Delivering Content, Encouraging Reflection, and Eliciting Excitement

The Construction of Logos, Ethos, and Pathos in Teaching

Formats for Learning: Lecture, Discussion, Small Groups

Using Technology To Supplant and Supplement Instruction

The Impact of the Student on Teacher and Teaching

Part IV: Managing and Caring for the Course

Students Who Talk and Those Who Do Not

Students Who Work and Those Who Do Not

Accommodating Diversity in Its Many Forms

Attendance, Grading, and the Uses of Mercy