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Course Criteria
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10.00 Credits
This course prepares candidates in content, pedagogical, and professional knowledge, skills and dispositions related to art education. At the end of this course, candidates will know, understand, and use the visual arts as primary media for communication, inquiry, and insight. The required practicum includes ten hours of "community art" which focuses on dance, music, theater, and the visual arts. Prerequisite: MUS 250 Expected to be offered: Spring semesters 2 credits
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3.00 Credits
After taking this course, candidates will be able to demonstrate the use of English language arts in the elementary classroom, through the use of concepts from reading, language, literature, and child development to teach reading, writing, speaking, listening, and thinking skills in different situations with different materials and ideas. Candidates will be able to use this knowledge and understanding of verbal, nonverbal, and media communication techniques to foster inquiry, collaboration, and supportive interactions. Prerequisite: ENG 117, ENG 200, EDU 370 (concurrent enrollment permitted) Expected to be offered: Fall and Spring semesters; Extended Campus-Kalispell: Spring semesters 5 credits
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3.00 Credits
Information on the various kinds of developmental disabilities including cerebral palsy, cognitive delay (mental retardation), epilepsy, and blindness. Forms of treatment, educational strategies, community services, citizen advocacy, and career roles working with individuals with developmental disabilities. Prerequisite: EDU 261 Expected to be offered: Fall semesters, even years; Extended Campus-Kalispell: Summer semesters, odd years 3 credits
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3.00 Credits
This course will provide teacher candidates with a thorough study of the various instruments for the assessment of children with disabilities and will focus on a variety of alternative methods of assessment in the classroom setting including curriculum-based measurement. Development of goals, objectives, and benchmarks will be learned, and the writing of each will be practiced. Interpreting goals and developing instructional formats and data collection systems will be initiated. Teacher candidates will be able to develop, select, administer, and interpret formal and informal assessment tools at the end of this course. Prerequisite: EDU 261, EDU 315 Expected to be offered: Fall semesters; Extended Campus-Kalispell: Summer semesters, odd years 3 credits
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3.00 Credits
Teacher candidates in this course will examine the learning difficulties of P-12 students. They will study the criteria for identification, the major characteristics, and the instructional strategies for those students who present learning difficulties or learning disabilities in the areas of reading, mathematics, and written expression. A major focus in this course will be upon exploration of the concepts of collaboration, inclusion, modifications of the general curriculum, and techniques for implementation of each in classroom settings at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. Prerequisite: EDU 261, EDU 315 Expected to be offered: Fall semesters 3 credits
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3.00 Credits
Teacher candidates taking this course will review the philosophical, historical, and legal foundations of the emotionally disturbed child and adolescent and will learn the models, theories, and philosophies that provide the basis for past and present educational practices with the P-12 student with emotional and behavioral disabilities. The etiology and characteristics of behavior will be studied along with how P-12 students with this disability impact the community of the classroom and school and the home. Attention will be given to understanding how to write behavioral goals and to carrying out a functional behavior assessment and manifestation review. Prerequisite: EDU 261, EDU 315 Expected to be offered: Fall semesters, odd years; Extended Campus-Kalispell: Spring semesters, even years 3 credits
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3.00 Credits
A detailed analysis of infant and early childhood growth and developmental patterns with emphasis on the high-risk infant. Prenatal and perinatal difficulties, as well as postnatal environmental hazards will be studied in this course. Teacher candidates will have the opportunity to observe and work in a preschool setting and put into practice concepts learned in the classroom environment. Emphasis will also be given to an understanding of language and its effect on the development of the infant and young child. The federal mandate for preschool students with disabilities will be reviewed. Prerequisite: EDU 261 Expected to be offered: Spring semester, even years; Extended Campus-Kalispell: Spring semesters, even years 2 credits
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3.00 Credits
This course will focus on the importance of language development from birth through adolescence and will emphasize the relationship of language to all aspects of life. How receptive and expressive language development affects reading and written language as well as all other academic areas will be studied. Social communication will be reviewed and candidates will demonstrate through written projects their knowledge of typical and atypical language development in children and the part that language has played in the historical development of theories of education. Prerequisite: EDU 261 Expected to be offered: Fall semesters; Extended Campus-Kalispell: Fall semesters, odd years 2 credits
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3.00 Credits
This course is a survey of the best literature for elementary students. Teacher candidates will know, understand, and use children's literature to create interdisciplinary connections between content areas. Candidates will work with literature from all genres including multicultural literary works. Prerequisite: EDU 200 Expected to be offered: Fall semesters; Extended Campus-Kalispell: Fall semesters 3 credits
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3.00 Credits
Teacher candidates will study the issues of transition and vocational education necessary to prepare the candidate to successfully deal with those transition points and transition years with the student with a disability in the school setting. Understanding the community resources available to assist in this transition and vocational educational planning will be emphasized and studied throughout the course. Prerequisite: EDU 261 Expected to be offered: Spring semesters, even years; Extended Campus-Kalispell: Summer semesters, even years 2 credits
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