Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: isolate and describe the different aspects of the complexity inherent in the teaching process; identify personal biases and definitions of a teacher, student and classroom; summarize and apply contemporary cognitive theories and information processing models; describe theories of motivation and learning theories and their application to classroom management; demonstrate an ability to devise and utilize behavioral objectives in support of a teaching task and construct taxonomies of objectives; effectively assess and relate to pupil variability in terms of stage theories of normal development and typical age-level characteristics; and explain different means of evaluating classroom learning.