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3.00 Credits
This course provides an introduction to Elementary Education through class content, lesson planning, and participation in an elementary classroom. Observation and teacher assistance are arranged for two hours a week for the semester and supplement three weekly lectures. Emphases are placed on development of competencies in planning, pupil questioning, classroom communicating skills as well as innovative methods and practices appropriate to the development level, special needs and social, ethnic, and linguistic backgrounds of the child.
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3.00 Credits
This course prepares prospective teachers to understand all types of special needs children. It covers identification of special needs: physical, social, emotional and mental, sensory as well as giftedness. The course includes recent legislation and planning for integrating the special needs child into the regular classroom. Field experiences provide opportunities for student to observe work with children with special needs of various social, racial, and linguistic backgrounds. Three lecture hours and two hours of fieldwork per week. Required of all Education majors, Early Childhood, Elementary and Middle School concentrations.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to provide Education majors with experiences in the selection, use, production, and evaluation of media teaching and learning materials. The course will include applications to the appropriate subject areas and developmental stages, and focus on media materials and techniques for individualized instruction, special needs materials, and a multi-cultural society. Three lecture hours and one 2-hour laboratory per week.
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3.00 Credits
Emphasizes the application of psychological principles to education. Study of factors affecting learning, retention, transfer of training, individual differences, language development, motivation, creativity, and group interaction. Elective. Three lecture hours per week.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to introduce prospective teachers to the goals and techniques of guidance and other personnel services available to students and to discuss the teacher's role in relationship to the roles of the other members of the personnel team. Services and functions studied include counseling appraisal, information, resources, placement, and curriculum and program consultation. Elective. Three lecture hours per week.
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3.00 Credits
This course will provide a framework for understanding and practicing special education in today's world. The relevance of the teaching process, placement options and service delivery, litigation and legislation, and philosophical roots will be given special emphasis. Three lecture hours per week.
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3.00 Credits
This course will focus on the skills and strategies of classroom teaching. Topics include learning and teaching styles; motivation; teacher-student relationships; classroom management; assessment; models of curriculum; and materials, resources, learning tools and technologies. Three lecture hours a week. Required of all Education majors with Early Childhood and Elementary concentrations. Prerequisite: EDU100 or EDU105.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the theories and principles of language and literacy development. Topics include literacy development and the reading/writing process, principles of phonemic awareness and language structure, first and second language acquisition, theories of child development relating to language and literacy, and an introduction to children's literature. Three lecture hours per week. Required for all Education majors with Early Childhood and Elementary concentrations. Prerequisite: EDU100 or EDU105.
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of the historical and philosophical underpinnings of the American educational experience with a deliberate focus on the secondary school. The rationale for formal education of the young will be examined as a peculiar social phenomenon of western civilization. The Puritan school will establish the precedent that eventuates in the grammar school of the colonies, the high school of the nineteenth century and the comprehensive secondary school of the present day. The correlative role of the college/university in American life will also be charted. Three lecture hours per week. Required of all students in Secondary Education minors.
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3.00 Credits
Introduces the historical, philosophical, social, political, and psychological foundations of the contemporary U.S./Massachusetts high school. Various administrative structures, social settings, and contemporary issues are examined. Topics include approaches to secondary education, best practices, curriculum organization, national/state educational reforms and curriculum frameworks. Three lecture hours and 2 hours of fieldwork per week. Required for students with Secondary Education minors.
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