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3.00 Credits
Course Description: Teacher Certification and admission into the RODP M.Ed. Prgram or Department approval. Description: This course addresses the areas of child and adolescent psychological development. The focus is on the science of individual human development. In addition, infant development is covered briefly to provide an understanding of the sequential and hierarchical nature of development. The majority of assignments will deal with children in the kindergarten to eighth grade. However, early childhood and teen assignments will be included to understand the precursors and aftereffects childhood and middle childhood. The course emphasizes an understanding of the important methods, terms, theories, and findings in the field of developmental psychology. The primary focus of the class is the cognitive, socio-emotional and physical changes associated with child and adolescent development. The course is organized in a topical format, exploring the basic theories and tracing development across the preadult years for each psychological topic covered. The course requires both independent reading, interaction with online modules, field observations and Berk¿s text. It is strongly recommended that you have passed an introductory Developmental Psychology course before taking this class.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Teacher Certification and admission into the RODP M.Ed. Program or Dpearmental approved. Cross-listed with ASTL 6706, 7706. Description: Assessment of learning for the classroom is an introduction to systematic assessment at the classroom level. The course provides an overview of models for planning and implementing classroom assessment projects. The emphasis in the course, however, is implementation, data collection, analysis, and reporting of results on classroom assessment projects. This course presents a rationale for learning-centered assessment and an overview of the tools, techniques, and issues that educators should consider as they design and use assessments focused on learner needs.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Teacher certification and admisstion into the RODP M.Ed. program or department approval. Description: This course is designed to examine learning theories and to study their influence on current instructional practices. Students will be asked to reflect on the metacognitive processes involved in the decision making phase of classroom instruction. The alignment of National Board for Professional Teaching Standards with personal instructional practices is questioned and will be studied.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Teacher certification and admission into the RODP M.Ed. program. May be taken in conjunction with ASTL 5729. All other ASTL courses must be completed prior to enrollment.; Description: This course will empower classroom teachers to construct their own knowledge and to make it available to others for the benefit of all learners. This course is designed to help educators and other professionals understand the relationship between their own professional development and the process of improving the quality of pupils' and/or colleagues' learning.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Teacher certification and admission into the RODP M.Ed. program.; Course Description: Literacy I will engage candidates in professional reading about, and discussions of, the following: the nature of learning, the nature of language, how human beings learn language, the differences between receptive and productive language, the nature of the reading process, the nature of the writing process, how children develop their native language, what the relationships are among learning one's `mother tongue' and learning to read and write that same language, what the typical stages are through which children pass as they develop literacy, and what some of the more obvious implications are for classroom instruction and assessment in reading and writing. This course lays the foundation for all further learning about the teaching of literacy. Among other assessment devices, candidates will take and pass a comprehensive examination to determine their grasp of the concepts for this course. Application of technology, diversity issues, and use of appropriate resources will be part of this literacy course.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Teacher certification and admission into the RODP M.Ed. program.; Course Description: This course will engage candidates in reading and discussions to explore theory understand best practices, and implement best practices in literacy instruction grades PreK-3. It will begin with an exploration of theory and best practices for family literacy from the birth of a child to school age. Theory and best practices will be examined from entrance into school, preschool to kindergarten, followed by explorations of best practices for teaching reading and writing in the primary grates. Candidates will be expected to work with primary grade children as they attempt to understand and implement best practices in emergent and early literacy development.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Teacher certification and admission into the RODP M.Ed. program.; Course Description: Literacy III will engage candidates in professional studies related to understanding and using best practice for continued literacy growth in the middle grades. This course reviews the characteristics of a comprehensive middle school reading program.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Teacher certification and admission into the RODP M.Ed. program.; Course Description: Literacy IV will engage candidates in reading, discussions, and implementation of diagnostic tools and techniques in literacy for struggling students grades K-8. Students enrolled in the course are expected to give specified reading tests at least two students.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Teacher certification and admission into the RODP M.Ed. program. May be taken in conjunction with ASTL 5709. All ASTL literacy courses must be completed prior to enrollment in this course including ASTL 5726.; Course Description: This course is based on the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) 2, 7, 8, 9, and 10 as well as state Special Licensure Standards 2-7 and 9-10.
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1.00 Credits
The subjects of planetary astronomy such as the planets and their moons,planetary geology, the sun, the origin of the solar system; the tools and methods of astronomy including celestrial observation, light and other types of radiation, telescopes and spectroscopy. Laboratory 1011 is to be taken concurrently.
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