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3.00 Credits
3 cr. This course is designed to provide vocational technical educators with the knowledge of the elements of a quality curriculum. Students will learn how to develop a vocational technical education curriculum and a competency-based student reporting system that incorporates the standards and performance indicators of the Academic and Vocational Technical Education Curriculum Frameworks.
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3.00 Credits
3 cr. This course is designed to introduce the vocational technical educator to the microcomputer as a tool for curriculum, classroom record keeping, and planning. Students adapt, modify, and incorporate the excellent curricular resources developed within Massachusetts, including CBVE, MSCP and others into practical learning applications utilizing the computer. In addition to hands-on experience with a microcomputer, the course enables participants to blend classroom and laboratory learning with an emphasis on integrated software and its application within a vocational technical setting.
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3.00 Credits
3 cr. This course shares, explores and investigates Massachusetts developed curricular resources, including CBVE, MSCP, Model Academic Project and LAPS, as well as nationally devised curriculum, including Principles of Technology, CBE, and others. This learning activity examines the eight methods (academic infusing, cross articulation, vocational/technical relevance, content alignment, the academy model, specialized courses/programs, employability/career path skills and the culminating/senior project) for integration identified by the National Center for Research in Vocational Education at the University of California at Berkeley.
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3.00 Credits
3 cr. Participants explore strategies for establishing student performance criteria, assessing student knowledge and attitudes, evaluating handson skills and determining student grades. Topics include identifying and examining existing standards and social equity in educational assessment. Methods for linking competency designed instructional objectives to evaluation and measuring instruments are reviewed, including factors related to reliability and range.
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3.00 Credits
3 cr. This course will provide vocational technical educators with an overview of the federal and state special education laws and regulations and how they are implemented in schools in Massachusetts. Students will learn about the elements of an Individualized Education Program (IEP) and the roles of special and general educators. Students will also learn how to design curriculum and instruction using the information on the IEP and how to modify their related classrooms and vocational technical shops/laboratories to accommodate students with disabilities.
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3.00 Credits
3 cr. A practicum is a modified teaching placement in a vocational technical school or equivalent field-based experience. Candidates function as pre-approved instructors with responsibility for demonstrating ability to implement various teaching models, familiarization with school policies, classroom management techniques and the coordination of educable training resources. Teaching is supervised by a cooperating teacher and monitored and evaluated by a college instructor. Practicum participants design competency-based lesson plans, participate actively in seminar discussions and complete a research assignment on educational reform. The eligible practicum time requirements are five hours a day for three or four days a week over six week period.
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3.00 Credits
3 cr. This course provides an orientation and application of Lotus 1-2-3 for the vocational technical setting. This software is a recognized leader in the microcomputer spreadsheets market with its ease of use, size, and power. Students learn through hands-on experience how to plan, design, implement and perform analysis utilizing a microcomputer and Lotus 1-2-3. Additionally, a historical view of spreadsheets and their impact on the manner in which effective organizations operate in the planning, creating, saving, and printing of data is emphasized. Participants interpret data using database functions and by creating and printing graphs. Note: This course may be used as a computer science cluster requirement.
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3.00 Credits
3 cr. 3 hr. (See PHED 3050) Q, IDIS
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3.00 Credits
3 cr. 3 hr. The course serves as an introduction to the problems, methods and goals of classical and contemporary Western philosophy. Emphasis is placed upon how these differ from and relate to other fields of human knowledge. I, CTW
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3.00 Credits
3 cr. 3 hr. The course introduces techniques for analyzing the structure and validity of arguments in a natural language, such as English, as well as the concepts and principles of validity. Emphasis is on truth-functional and quantification inference, and a procedure in formal systems. L, Q, IDIS.
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