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  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisites: Junior Standing or instructor's permission. completion of a minimum of 18 credits in the candidate's subject area discipline with a minimum grade of C in each course. Designed to help pre-service teachers plan art based interdisciplinary units to help students become critical creative thinkers. Pre-service teachers will investigate recent research supporting art-powered curriculum and will work with other practicing professional artists and teachers from the community university and public schools.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisites: Junior standing or permission of instructor. Course explores relationships between and among children's oral language development as it influences children's written and reading language development. The general topic is writing and all aspects of written process. Since writing does not emerge in isolation those other factors which affect its growth and development will be explored.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisites: Junior level completed the liberal arts core or permission of instructor. Social Studies for Elementary and Middle School is a two-semester 6-credit course designed to introduce the pre-service teacher to the content areas of the K-8 Social Studies curriculum. Pre-service teachers will focus on major themes in the six key social science disciplines of geography history anthropology sociology economics and political science necessary to successful K-8 social studies instruction as defined by the State of Maine Learning Results and the K-8 social studies standards set by the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS). Prerequisites: Junior level completed the liberal arts core or permission of instructor. Social Studies for Elementary and Middle School is a two-semester 6-credit course designed to introduce the pre-service teacher to the content areas of the K-8 Social Studies curriculum. Pre-service teachers will focus on major themes in the six key social science disciplines of geography history anthropology sociology economics and political science necessary to successful K-8 social studies instruction as defined by the State of Maine Learning Results and the K-8 social studies standards set by the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS).
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisites: Junior level completed the liberal arts core or permission of instructor. Social Studies for Elementary and Middle School is a two-semester 6-credit course designed to introduce the pre-service teacher to the content areas of the K-8 Social Studies curriculum. Pre-service teachers will focus on major themes in the six key social science disciplines of geography history anthropology sociology economics and political science necessary to successful k-8 social studies instruction as defined by the State of Maine Learning Results and the k-8 social studies standards set by the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS).
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisites: Junior level completed the liberal arts core or permission of instructor. This introductory learning processes course is designed to acquaint the prospective elementary school teacher with learning attainment concepts. Learning processes including thinking speaking reading and writing will be the focus of assigned readings and class discussions. In addition to the required readings students will be expected to complete outside readings from the library.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisites: Junior standing or instructor's permission. To have pre-service teachers develop an understanding of the importance of teaching adolescent students reading writing thinking listening and speaking skills in the content areas. To help pre-service teachers develop a knowledge of the best practices and strategies of teaching reading writing thinking speaking and listening in the content areas. To provide pre-service teachers the opportunity to examine and develop materials appropriate for the content area of their concentration. To provide pre-service teachers with an overview of the use and appropriateness of multiple assessment tools.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisites: Junior level completed the liberal arts core or permission of instructor. Teaching of Writing for Elementary Teachers is a 3 credit course designed to prepare students to be effective writing instructors. The course is focused on helping students to develop an understanding of the complex nature of literacy development at the elementary level. Students will investigate recent research in effective strategies for teaching of writing and apply this knowledge to the development of writing workshops mini-lessons and assessment of children's writing. Along with professional readings small and large classroom group activities students will be expected to actively participate in writer's workshop.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisites: None. This course provides secondary education students the opportunity to investigate current research on teaching and learning. Pre-service teachers ill acquire insight into how current research informs educational practice in the modern classroom.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisites: None. To have practicing and pre-service teachers develop a sophisticated understanding of the increasing racial ethnic cultural and social-class diversity in our classrooms communities and work places. To help develop the knowledge and skills needed to teach and work effectively with students parents teachers and communities of diverse backgrounds and cultures.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisites: Junior level completed the liberal arts core or permission of instructor. This course explores the major disciplines of science taught in an elementary and middle level education program as outlined in the State of Maine Learning Results (1997). The fall semester covers: Motion Energy Ecology and the Evolution and Classification of Life. The spring semester covers: Cells Earth Science the Structure of the Universe and the Implications of Science and Technology. Blended throughout the units are the concepts of scientific reasoning communication inquiry and problem solving.
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