MGE 528 Capstone Seminar: Celebrating Collaborative Engagement

Honoring the "pursuit of happiness," candidates focus on their rights as middle grades educators to experience and provide a stress-free learning environment. Transforming their students and their own lives through integrating science and practice to support enhanced understandings of student learning through application of brain research and positive psychology practices learned in the program and used in their classrooms. Candidates contemplate joyful practices while creating their capstone projects, to be presented at the Celebrate the Joy Symposium. Through self-reflective story-telling, candidates blend academic and relevant professional experiences to share and articulate the interconnectedness of student success, social emotional learning, the brain, classroom practices, and their lasting impact on young adolescent learners. Pre-requisite(s): MGE 527. Co-requisite(s): None. 1 semester hour