Departmental Portfolios

Language Education: Multi-disciplinary Approach

Collaboration Background We proposed a field experience study of one local business - Oliver Rubber Company. The purpose of our collaborative project was to provide an opportunity for UGA middle school preservice teachers to learn about one local industry, and how it's leaders think about what knowledge, skills, and dispositions are important to effectively operate in the workforce..."

ELAN 5200: Literature and Language Arts Across the Curriculum
"Become aware of your strengths and weaknesses in reading, writing, speaking, listening and thinking as a means of understanding what might mean to teach middle school students.
Demonstrate the extent to which literature and language arts can be used in science, math, and social science. . ."

EDMS 5020: Teaching Young Adolescents
"Designing curriculum and pedagogy in ways that foster understanding, competence, curiosity and enjoyment for middle school students is no easy task. You will be expected to develop social, emotional and intellectual relationships with large groups of middle school students with whom you know very little about in the beginning. . ."

EMAT 5310: Teaching Mathematics in the Middle School
"Methods and materials for teaching mathematics in the middle school, with emphasis on integration of mathematical topics."

CTL Case Study: Middle School Preservice Teachers Investigate What
Knowledge, Skills, and Dispositions are Necessary To Prepare Students
For the Work Force
"The purpose of this collaborative project is to provide you with an opportunity to find out what knowledge, skills, and dispositions local businesses deem important and necessary for their workforce. You will be required to tour a local business and complete a case study. ...We believe that this experience will motivate you to contemplate the purposes of schooling, how to assess learning, and how you might deliver instruction to meet the needs of a diverse workforce."

Faculty Internship: Athens Banner Herald Newspaper

CTL Presentation at Classic Center