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4.00 Credits
Credits: 4 Prerequisite(s): None Currently offered: Spring 2008: Day/Evening (2) Description: This course provides students with opportunities to explore how children learn. Students will develop lesson plans and a standards-based mini unit. They will connect the theories of Piaget, Vygotsky, Erikson, Dewey, Montessori and Gardner, to the real classroom. The course will focus on learning materials, learning environments, and communicating with children. The students will implement a Service Learning project in a local school or agency during their seven-week internship, a long-term assignment during this course.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisite(s): None Currently offered: Spring 2008: Day/Evening (1) Description: This course is designed to provide pre-service teachers with the foundations of psychological theory, research, and profesional practice relating to development and learning in classroom settings. The role of psychology of education in studying and influencing teaching and learning will be explored with an emphasis on direct application to planning, implementing, and evaluating instruction in the middle/high school classroom. Students spend two hours a week in a field experience.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisite(s): None Currently offered: Spring 2008: Day/Evening (2) Description: Course provides students with an understanding of children and youth with disabilities and other special needs. Students learn about the community services, educational programs, and services designed to help children with special needs reach their maximum potential. Emphasis is on the characteristics of various disabilities, their effect on children and their families, strategies for effective intervention, and special needs and strategies that promote the acceptance of diversity in the classroom. Best practices for inclusion including curriculum adaptations and accommodations, and effective strategies for collaboration among professionals will be discussed. (Spring only)
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisite(s): None Currently offered: Spring 2008: Day/Evening (2) Description: Explores theory, activities, and materials to help the child understand concepts and develop skills in basic math and science. Explores materials that further physical and logic mathematical knowledge.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisite(s): EDU-105 EDU-251 is the required corequisite course. Currently offered: Spring 2008: Day/Evening (1) Fall 2008: Day/Evening (1) Description: Students plan curriculum related to themes as well as develop environments for teaching. Nutrition, parent communication and assessment of children are examined. This course is taken concurrently with Preschool Field Experience (EDU 251).
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2.00 Credits
Credits: 2 Prerequisite(s): EDU-105 EDU-250 is the required corequisite course. Currently offered: Spring 2008: Day/Evening (1) Fall 2008: Day/Evening (1) Description: Students work two half-days or two full days per week in a preschool setting carrying out lessons for small and large groups on a theme-related curriculum. Observations in a variety of preschool classroom areas are completed. This course is taken concurrently with Integrated Preschool Curriculum (EDU 250).
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisite(s): EDU-105 EDU-256 is the required corequisite course. Currently offered: Spring 2008: Day/Evening (1) Fall 2008: Day/Evening (1) Description: Students plan lessons and units for teaching in primary classrooms. Emphasis is on social studies curriculum planning for the five to eight year old child. Observations in a variety of primary classroom areas are completed. This course is taken concurrently with Primary Field Experience (EDU 256).
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisite(s): EDU-105 EDU-255 is the required corequisite course. Currently offered: Spring 2008: Day/Evening (1) Fall 2008: Day/Evening (1) Description: Students work two half-days or two full days per week in a kindergarten, first, second or third grade, planning and carrying out lessons for small and large groups on a theme-related curriculum. This course is taken concurrently with Integrated Primary Curriculum (EDU 255).
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisite(s): EDU-250,EDU-251, EDU-255, AND EDU-256 Currently offered: Spring 2008: Day/Evening (2) Summer 2008: Day/Evening (1) Fall 2008: Day/Evening (1) Description: The Vermont and NSTA Standards are used as the basis for course content. Topics will include science process skills, physical science, life science, earth and space science, science and technology, and the scientific experiment. Students complete a long-term thematic unit on a topic of interest, relating lessons to the Vermont and/or NSTA Standards. Commercial science materials and texts will be examined and evaluated. Students will spend two hours per week observing and working in a kindergarten through sixth grade. (Spring only)
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisite(s): EDU-115, PSY-120 Currently offered: Spring 2008: Day/Evening (1) Description: Examines ways to structure the learning environment and to organize and implement instruction to best meet students' needs and maximize their learning. Addresses teaming, scheduling, teacher-based guidance/advisories, service learning, and family connections. Participants will explore and have direct experience with a variety of planning strategies. They will analyze existing organizational structures and propose improvements upon or justifications for existing practices. Students will spend one-half day per week working in middle school classrooms.
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