May 18, 2025  
Fall 2025 Graduate Catalog 
    
Fall 2025 Graduate Catalog

SCI 510 - Introduction to Science Teaching


This course introduces the pre-service teacher to the requisite skills, culture, and demands of the profession. The pre-service teacher learns to design curriculum, write lesson plans, orchestrate classroom activity, probe student thinking and assess student progress within the context of a pedagogy that promotes an inquiry approach to learning. This course requires one-half day per week of clinical practice with follow-up seminar in the campus Discover Lab, out-of-class meetings with classmates, and periodic visits to local public schools.

3 credits

Grading Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) ​