.jpg) /Admit%20Header%20Images/Admit%20Header%20Image%205%20(New%20Brand).png) Brianna Carlin's Shadow Visit Page Hometown: Enfield, CT Class Year: 2027 Programs of Study: Elementary Education / Math (minor) Campus Involvement: Future Teachers of America, Peer Mentor, Honors Program Ambassador, Interclass Council, Campus Entertainment Network, Statistics Tutor, Honors Advisory Council, Participation in Honors Program Please refer to Brianna's course schedule and upcoming availability below to select your desired experience. | |
Wednesday Shadow Visit Experience: 11:00am - 12:20pm: EDU 349 - Mathematics in the Elementary School I This course is the first of a two-courses sequence that emphasizes instructional methodologies, strategies, activities, assessment, and materials for teaching mathematical concepts and skills in grades K-6. Participants explore key mathematical topics in the areas of problem solving, whole numbers operations, number theory, and rational numbers. Field experiences include observing students in school setting during math instruction and conducting clinical interviews with children. Prospective elementary teachers examine current research, national and state standards, curriculum materials, and the use of math manipulatives in instruction. Thursday Shadow Visit Experience: 2:00pm - 3:20pm: EDU 342 - Teaching Inquiry Science In the Elementary School This course prepares students to teach inquiry-based science in elementary classrooms. Students will apply their knowledge of science content and inquiry as a pedagogical practice to evaluate elementary science curricula, to plan and deliver in an inquiry science unit, and to assess children’s learning in various guided field experiences. Students will work closely with their internship teachers and reflect on and gain powerful insights into inquiry-based science teaching and learning in the elementary school. 3:30pm - 4:50pm: CW 120 - Narrative in Prose This foundation course is a critical study of the elements of narrative structure and design in the short story, such as character development, point of view, tone, setting, plotting, and time management. Through both seminars and writing workshops, the class combines the critical study of published writing and the development of student work to learn how narrative not only affects the short story, but becomes the short story. Students will be exposed to essential works by writers such as, James Baldwin, Raymond Carver, Anton Chekhov, Tim O’Brien, Flannery O’Conner, John Updike, and Alice Walker. Creative expectations are no more than two revised short stories that fully reflect the focused study of the course. | |
