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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course is designed to help education majors develop cultural understandings and acquire the values and skills needed to get along with people from different cultural, racial, religious, and nationality groups. A major focus of the course is to help teachers conceptualize, design, and implement a democratic, multicultural curriculum that respects and honors diversity as well as promotes national unity. Future teachers will demonstrate knowledge and dispositions appropriate for teaching all students.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits The purpose of this course is to help prospective teachers understand how students learn and to develop assessment knowledge and skills. Students will use learning principles and theories to provide learning-oriented instruction, set conditions to achieve specific learning goals, understand how beliefs in cognition affect learning, select and use technology that enhances learning, and integrate assessment as an integral part of the learning process. Prerequisite: EDU 121 Introduction to Education.
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2.00 Credits
2 credits A methods class designed for students in elementary education. The primary focus is on understanding students and their behaviors and on developing strategies that create a supportive, caring community of learners. Students will examine a variety of models of classroom discipline and discuss issues affecting the lives of students in today's classrooms.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course focuses on the principles and techniques of teaching reading in the elementary schools. It presents fundamentals of teaching reading from early literacy to establishing reading power. Varied approaches will be studied and evaluated and will include methodological skills and strategies for graphophonic, semantic, and syntactic cueing systems, literature-based reading instruction, comprehension, and the development of fluent reading and writing. Evaluation and diagnosis of reading problems as well as current reading research will also be covered. Adapting instruction to individual differences in students will be addressed. Prerequisite: Admission to the Teacher Education Program or permission of instructor. Corequisite: EDU 380 Methods of Teaching Elementary Language Arts.
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2.00 Credits
2 credits Secondary preservice teachers will gain knowledge and skills needed to assist their students in developing content area literacy, or those skills necessary to read, comprehend, and respond to instructional material in a given subject area. Secondary preservice teachers will engage in assessing the reading level of students and the student's prior knowledge, selecting appropriate materials for a wide range of interests, and developing and evaluating the student's understanding of content. Students will apply an understanding of the constructivist theory in designing an instructional framework that helps students become more active learners of content. Students will also identify learner objectives that match state standards.
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2.00 Credits
2 credits Designed for students in elementary education. The course focuses on key principles in language arts, and the primary components of communication, which include talking, listening, reading, writing, viewing, and visual ways of making meaning. The instructional approaches include focus units, theme cycles, and the reading-writingworkshop. Development in specific skills and strategies in handwriting, spelling, grammar, language, and reference will be emphasized. Authentic assessment in the language arts curriculum will also be examined. Prerequisite: Admission to the Teacher Education Program or permission of instructor. Corequisite: EDU 318 Methods of Teaching Elementary Reading.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
A selected area of study in education. The topic is announced in the appropriate semester's course schedule. Prerequisite: Generally, sophomore standing or permission of instructor. Offered as needed.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits A consideration of the principles and techniques of teaching elementary school science and health. Primary focus will be on best practices in teaching science. Prerequisite: Admission to the Teacher Education Program or permission of instructor. Corequisite: EDU 404 Methods of Teaching Social Studies in Elementary Schools.
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2.00 Credits
2 credits A consideration of the principles and techniques of teaching elementary school social studies. Primary focus will be on planning integrated curriculum units and on best practices in social studies instruction. Prerequisite: Admission to the Teacher Education Program or permission of instructor. Corequisite: EDU 403 Methods of Teaching Science in Elementary Schools.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits This course is an exciting hands-on experience designed to assist preservice teachers in planning student-centered learning environments and to practice implementing these plans. It prepares preservice teachers to become a competent teacher modeling the framework of the Dana College Department of Education. Activities include teaching mini-sessions in the classroom on campus, participating in seminars at area schools and learning to infuse technologies into classroom activities. To be taken prior to the professional semester. Prerequisite: Admission to the Professional Semester.
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