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Course Criteria
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2.00 Credits
Surveys broad range of topics in education; surveys the history, rationale, philosophy, organization, and distinctive components of education; explores teaching approaches, child development, educational principles; and presents teaching methods enabling teachers to improve classroom instruction.
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2.00 Credits
Examines philosophical issues in educational theory and practice while considering influential work by classical and contemporary educational theorists.
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2.00 Credits
An introduction to information literacy: the ability to locate, evaluate and use information. Participants will learn techniques to improve their own and their students’ research skills and will learn methods of infusing information literacy into their curricula. Information issues and their effects on society and education will also be discussed.
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2.00 Credits
Provides understanding of cultural, ethnic, economic, gender, and racial differences and similarities in American society; focuses on preparing educators for working successfully with America’s multicultural school population.
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2.00 Credits
Focuses on strategies for integrating the visual and performing arts across the curriculum; provides opportunities to practice applications of lesson planning and to design a thematic unit which relies upon artistic expression of elementary and middle school students; helps classroom teachers see how the arts can motivate, enrich, and extend instruction in science, mathematics, social studies, and language arts.
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2.00 Credits
Extends students’ competence with advanced applications commonly found in educational settings; emphasizes evaluation, utilization, and integration of microcomputer hardware and software CAI, database, and word processing uses across the curriculum, as well as tools such as lesson planning and grade book management.
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2.00 Credits
Develops a curriculum rationale, philosophy, and skills in curriculum analysis; reviews selection, development, and adaptation of curricula, instructional plans, and materials fitting the goals of the school and the needs of exceptional learners in special and regular classrooms; emphasizes psychological, sociological, educational, philosophical, and ethical aspects of children and families with special needs (including gifted and talented). Covers such topics as legislative, assessment, and programming issues; risk indicators and risk assessment; tools and instruments for informal assessment; and interpreting standardized observational measures.
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2.00 Credits
Emphasizes the philosophical, social, and political aspects of educational leadership; examines research on best practices in developing and adapting curriculum to impact positively students with disabilities; examines the varying models that support curriculum and instructional approaches with the aim of preparing educators for curricular leadership roles within their own school settings.
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2.00 Credits
Provides a critical understanding of the historical foundations of American higher education; includes discussion of prevalent themes and historical methods in the history of American higher education.
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2.00 Credits
Presents differing concepts of the nature of the individual and society; considers psychological and sociological development of these concepts; evaluates basic premises and implicit assumptions; examines the psychological and social development of the ways in which the family, school, and community affect adolescent development, including effects on cognitive processes, identity formation, and peer relationships.
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