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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course focuses on A specific topic in education.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits The student serves as A teaching assistant to the faculty member or team who has accepted them. The course includes both studying the processes of planning, implementing, and evaluating the course curriculum, and assisting with the preparation and teaching aspects of the course. The course is recommended for students interested in deeper exploration of A particular subject, and for those wishing to participate in the planning and teaching process. See Teaching Assistantships on page 48 for details.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course is an integrated study of the learner, the learning situation, and the learning process. Students apply content from earlier liberal arts and professional courses to their examination of the student, the teacher, and the school system, and consider how these forces together drive the development of A classroom community designed to meet the needs of all its members. Course content includes A variety of assessment and evaluation procedures, including ethnographic observation techniques and self-assessment. Intervention strategies studied include models from curriculum, clinical, and behavioral approaches. Prerequisite: CEDUC 2352 or 2353. This course must be taken concurrently with senior student teaching by Elementary Education majors and Middle School Education majors preparing to be Teachers of General Science or Mathematics.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Principles of guidance for working with children, parents, professional staff, and the community are explored. This course gives students the opportunity to examine federal, state, and local services, and to consider the moral and ethical issues involved in advising others. A broad variety of issues and problems affecting children with special learning needs both in and out of the school setting are explored. Emphasis is on developing the ability to create an accepting climate for these children and on fostering attitudinal changes in teachers, administrators, and the community at large. Part of the course is re-defined yearly according to student needs. This course is part of the sequence of courses in Special Education. Students must fulfill the certification-related competencies assigned to the course in order to receive A passing grade. Prerequisites: CPSYC 1101, CPSYC 2401, CSPED 2354, CEDUC 3374, and senior class standing.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course focuses on issues in child care from A perspective of public policy, rather than program operation. Topics include research and its relationship to early care and education policy, societal values and the need for child care, various forms of child care, federal and state involvement in child care policy, the politics of child care, evaluation of child care programs, child care's relationship to other community agencies, and the difference between child care and preschool. Prerequisite: CEDUC 2351.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course provides students with the opportunity for in-depth study of aspects of early care and education beyond the classroom. During A one day per week placement, the student works closely with A leader in the profession of early care and education. The areas in which A student may choose to work include the following: administration, supervision, regulation, training, politics-lobbying, information, and referral. Discussions focus on these areas and help the student to integrate theoretical information with practice. Prerequisite: CEDUC 2351.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course applies contemporary developments from research in the fields of cognition, neuropsychology, and language to the education of the child with special needs. Experienced students of special education develop and apply inventive approaches to assessment and curriculum. Diversity is valued and supported in ways that negate the historical association between divergent learning styles and low achievement. Identifying and advancing the strengths in all children is A focus. A goal is to promote the perspective of special educator as leader and change agent. Prerequisites: CEDUC 2354, 4350, 4356, 4724.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Taken concurrently with A practicum, This course is designed to be A synthesizing experience. It focuses on individual differences and how to create the environmental and curricular adaptations to meet them. It also considers differences in families, in parenting styles, and in culture as the basis for planning parent-teacher interactions around issues of curriculum, behavior management, and home-school continuity. In addition, it includes A variety of ways for gathering information about A child's development and for keeping track of a child's progress. Prerequisites: CEDUC 2351 and CPSYC 2401. This course is taken senior year, simultaneously with student teaching.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course provides students with A theoretical, methodological, and experiential basis for teaching historical research and writing at the middle and secondary level. Course session learning experiences will include large group discourse, small group activities, visiting scholars, and student presentations. Students will gain knowledge of the techniques of historical inquiry. Next, they will explore the reading, writing, and thinking skills that foster effective historical research. Using these skills, students will then design A culminating project that they will peer review and implement in their field placements. Prerequisite: CEDUC 2353. Students preparing to be Teachers of English, History or Political Science/ Political Philosophy must take This course concurrently with CEDUC 4723 or CEDUC 4726.
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6.00 Credits
6 credits Students spend approximately three hours per week in class and three hours per week working with A child with reading difficulties. The course is designed to acquaint students with formal and informal assessment instruments used to identify specific reading difficulties. On the basis of the test results, each student develops a remediation program for one child and tutors the child throughout the semester. At the end of the semester, each student prepares A final report detailing the results of the tutoring experience. Prerequisites: CEDUC 2401 or 2402; CEDUC 3395 or 3415; CEDUC 4721, 4722, 4723 or 4726. Approval of instructor required.
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