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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course will focus on the sources of law under which educational policy is developed and implemented, analyze basic legal concepts, interpret topics which have a direct impact on educators and students and reflect on the law and the responsibilities that accompany legal rights.
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3.00 Credits
Using a workshop setting, students will explore everyday folklore and personal narrative in children's literature to jump-start their own stories. Students will write personal narratives based on family folklore and personal experiences. Students will investigate how various authors have shared their memoirs. Students will develop their own writing program for their classrooms.
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3.00 Credits
The past two decades have witnessed tremendous reform in middle level education and more restructuring is in progress. This course examines the physical, emotional, intellectual, and moral development of the middle level learner and the corresponding implications for school organization. This is an integrated course with the Department of Secondary Education, the Department of Human Kinetics, and the Department of Counseling and Human Services working together to provide an integrated look at the middle level learner in the school setting. The Human Kinetics Department would be responsible for physical concerns. The Counseling Department would be responsible for concerns dealing with social, emotional and moral growth, and the Secondary Education Department would work toward an understanding of the cognitive growth of the middle level student. The departments would work together to promote the understanding of how the current research on middle level learners applies to the middle level practitioner. The course would utilize both team and individual teaching. It would also model the teaming process which is the primary teaching organizational practice used in middle schools.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
This is a flexible course offering designed to enable students to address contemporary issues and to respond to current needs. Topics selected will be based on relevance, timeliness, and need. (1-3 credit hours).
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3.00 Credits
The past two decades have witnessed tremendous reform in middle level education and more restructuring is in progress. Middle school educators have been driven by one premise: everything that is done for and with students in a school should be based on what we know about the nature and needs of the age group. This course explores the unique sociological and psychological aspects of the middle level learner and the implications of these aspects for teachers, counselors, and administrators in the organization of the middle school and in development of a responsive curriculum for middle level learners.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the phenomenon of stress and the classroom teacher. It will focus upon the nature of stress, the consequences of unheeded warning signs, and personal, job-related, and classroom stressors. An extensive array of diverse coping mechanisms is included. Opportunities will be provided for a variety of self-appraisal exercises, group and individual participation, and limited original research.
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3.00 Credits
In this course teachers work in teams designing and implementing instruction for students with mild to severe reading disabilities according to their emotional, cultural, and educational learning needs. It involves supervised practice in the use of sociological, psychological, and pedagogical instructional procedures including: keeping student portfolios, collaborating with related support school personnel, conferring with parents, using community resources, and conducting classroom action research.
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3.00 Credits
This course will involve students in the analysis of systems of education throughout the world. The concept of school as a social, economic, and political institution will be developed. This concept will be used to examine the system of education in the United States and the systems in representative nations throughout the world. Special attention will be given to the educational opportunities provided for traditionally disadvantaged and excluded groups - namely, women and minority youths.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Independent Study is based on a student's pursuit of a subject in Secondary Education not covered within regularly offered graduate courses. Graduate students may schedule this course for one to three credits in a single semester, with no more than six credits for Independent Study overall. Permission of the faculty of the Secondary Education Department is required.
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3.00 Credits
The student will be assigned to an environment that provides the professional experiences related to the student's field of academic interest and study. Under the supervision of a school district administrator with coordination by a graduate faculty member in the Department of Secondary Education, the student will be exposed to the major task areas of policy determination, program development, curriculum design and instructional supervision. (180 hours of service.)
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