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.)
Prof. Reen Gibb
11.131
Spring 2012
Undergraduate
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.