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About Teaching This Course Pages

This page is a pilot offering of a new initiative for enhancing the value of MIT OCW for educators. Teaching This Course pages like this one will share how MIT educators design, prepare for, teach, and run their courses, in their own words.

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Prof. Klopfer sits at the side of the classroom and shares his thoughts with the class at the end of a student-led discussion.

Prof. Klopfer shares his thoughts at the end of a student-led discussion. (Image courtesy of MIT OpenCourseWare.)

About the Course

This page focuses on the course 11.124 Introduction to Education: Looking Forward and Looking Back on Education as it was taught in Fall 2011. The course 11.125 Introduction to Education: Understanding and Evaluating Education is taught in a similar way.

This course is an introductory course on teaching and learning science and mathematics in a variety of K-12 settings. Topics include education and media, education reform, the history of education, simulations, games, and the digital divide. This course is required for the Scheller Teacher Education Program at MIT, through which students can earn a teaching license. Learn more about the course in the Syllabus.

Teaching Topics

In the following pages, Professor Eric Klopfer discusses specific aspects of his experience as the lead course instructor.