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Staff. This course is about looking at elementary school classrooms and understanding children's experiences of school from a variety of perspectives, and from a variety of theoretical and methodological lenses from which the student can interpret children's educational experiences. This course is about developing the skills of observation, reflection, and analysis and to begin to examine some implications for curriculum, teaching and schooling. This course requires you to spend time in an elementary school classroom.
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Staff. This course represents an opportunity for students to participate in academically-based community service involving tutoring in a West Phila. public school. This course will serve a need for those students who are already tutoring through the West Phila.Tutoring Project or other campus tutoring. It will also be available to individuals who are interested in tutoring for the first time.
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Staff. Intellectual, emotional and behavioral development in the college years. Illustrative topics: developing intellectual and social competence; developing personal and career goals; managing interpersonal relationships; values and behavior. Recommended for submatriculation in Psychological Services Master's Degree program.
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Staff. A life-span (infancy to adulthood) approach to development. Topics include: biological, physical, social and cognitive basis of development. Films and guest speakers are often included.
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Staff. Theoretical and practical aspects of the study of literature for children. Students develop both wide familiarity with children's books, and understanding of how children's literature fits into the elementary school curriculum.
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Prerequisite(s): EDUC 316, 317. Corequisite(s): EDUC 419, 420. This course is open only to students officially admitted to the program for preparation of elementary school teachers. Second of a two-part course (see EDUC 317). The course focuses on the reading process, using literature in the reading curriculum, language and cultural difference in the classroom, and evaluating reading/language arts programs and progress. Students design and carry out reading lessons and units, conduct informal reading assessments, and participate in in-class seminars.
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Staff. Students participating in this course will explore definitions of mathematics, theories of children's mathematical learning, and issues of reform in mathematics education through consideration of relevant content areas such as numeration, rational number operations, geometry, and probability and statistics.
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Staff. An intensive approach to current methods, curricula, and trends in teaching science as basic learning, K-8. "Hands-on" activities based on cogent, current philosophical and psychological theories including: S/T/S and gender issues. Focus on skill development in critical thinking. Content areas: living things, the physical universe, and interacting ecosystems. FPE - Foundations and Practices of Education 463. (HIST463) The History of American Education. (B) Katz. This course is a survey of the relationships between education and the history of American society. The emphasis will be on social history: the interrelations between education and social structure, demography, economic development, family patterns, reform movements, and other institutions.
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Epstein. This course will connect students with artists from the 40th Street Artist-in-Residence (AIR) program, which provides free studio space and in exchange asks residents to share their talents with the local community. This course is designated as an Academic-based Service Learning (ABCS) class, meaning that students will be evaluated partly on their work in the community outreach situation.
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Staff. An examination of the role of cultural institutions in shaping the images and self-images of homosexuals in Western culture. Because of their "invisibility," sexual minorities provide a unique example of the role of cultural stereotypes of socialization and identity shaping and can thus illuminate these basic communication processes. Definitions and images to be analyzed (within a historical and cross-cultural context) are drawn from religious, medical, and social scientific sources, as well as elite and popular culture.
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