Students in the MIT/Wellesley Scheller Teacher Education Program (STEP) build 'straw towers', an activity that the teachers-in-training could replicate with their own future students. (Photo courtesy of Eric Klopfer.)
Instructor(s)
Reen Gibb
MIT Course Number
11.131
As Taught In
Spring 2012
Level
Undergraduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
This is the final course in the three-course sequence (11.129, 11.130 and 11.131) that deals with the practicalities of teaching students. Areas of study will include: educational psychology, identification of useful resources that support instruction, learning to use technology in meaningful ways in the classroom, finding more methods of motivating students, implementing differentiated instruction and obtaining a teaching job.
