Teaching and Learning
Victoria Carr
Undergraduate Student Advisement
Steinhardt Teaching and Learning
239 Greene Street
New York, NY 10003
victoria.carr@nyu.edu
Dept. Website:
http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/teachlearn/about
Overview:
The Department of Teaching and Learning has organized its courses, developed its programs, integrated university course work with school-based experiences, and designed research, demonstration, and training grants to achieve five goals:
-- to build a department that prepares educators, broadly defined, with a coherent vision of change and of their roles in achieving it;
-- to build an educational community with common themes and understandings that cross traditional conceptions of levels of study, faculty/student roles, academic areas of specialization, and cultures, while recognizing the particular requirements of diverse specializations;
-- to build programs that prepare educators with a solid grasp of the historical forces that have shaped schools, of the philosophical positions that shape ideologies, and of the complexities of learning and teaching in a multicultural, multiethnic world that is constantly subject to change from social, political, and technological forces;
to build a scholarly community rooted in reality and firmly committed to improving urban education; and
-- to build a relationship with our students, alumni, field-based professionals, and community that creates support groups and networks that will serve them as they meet the difficulties and challenges of teaching.
Registration Information:
The department offers the course Intro to Teaching and Learning I (E27.0001) which has no prerequisites and is open to all students for registration. The department also offers a general education minor. The requirements for the minor can be reviewed by following the link below.
http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/educationminor/general
Special Information:
The department is offering a Master's level course in the Fall 2009 semester, which may be available to undergraduates with special permission from the department and the student's adviser:
E26.2004 - Creative Writing For Children
Monday at 6:45 - 8:25 p.m.(43633)
This writing workshop will focus on the craft of writing children's books.
Students will conduct a diverse survey of works for children in order to strengthen their own writing and learn about different genres within children's literature. Works-in-progress will be submitted to the class for critiquing, and students will have opportunities to revise based on these comments. In tandem with critiquing, strategies for getting published will be presented. Our culminating meeting will consist of an actual submission to publishers.
Please contact Roberto Martinez for more information on this course:
Roberto MartÃnez, Assistant Director for Graduate Advising & Student Services Department of Teaching & Learning NYUSteinhardt, 239 Greene Street, Room 231, 212-998-5458
