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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course has been designed to assist K-6 and middle/secondary level education teacher candidates in developing the attributes, knowledge, skills, and strategies necessary to serve as a teacher leader. The course will explore teacher leadership in a variety of capacities including but not limited to instruction/curriculum development, assessment, school reform, classroom management, technology, advisory/mentoring, on-going professional development, and collaboration. A strong emphasis will be placed on ethical issues related to teaching and learning. Appropriate and effective oral and written communication skills will also be discussed. Moreover, teacher candidates will apply research and critical thinking skills to demonstrate scholarship related to issues in teacher leadership.
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3.00 Credits
This course will provide students with a variety of teaching strategies that enhance teaching and learning in an inclusive, multi-cultural classroom including students with exceptionalities. Students will explore ways to better understand how context and culture affect teaching and learning, and will acquire strategies to support learning for students whose first language is not English as well as for children of special needs. Emphasis will be placed on an understanding of how student learning is influenced by factors such as: poverty, prior learning, race, language of origin, culture, gender, health, family structure, religion, and community. IEP and 504 Development will be practiced.
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3.00 Credits
Instructional Strategies (Kindergarten through Grade Six) is designed to provide teacher education candidates with an opportunity to study about, reflect upon, question, become knowledgeable about, and develop skills in using a variety of instructional methods while applying and practicing these methods in a collaborative and constructive setting. Participants will learn how to plan and present instruction clearly, as well as how to establish and maintain an effective learning environment. Major topics include: characteristics of effective instructional strategies and their impact on various learners; differentiated instruction; planning for instruction; developing effective lessons using a variety of approaches & technologies; assessment of student learning; and professional development. Attention is focused on the learner and the interpretation of physiological, psychological, sociological, emotional, cultural, linguistic, and environmental factors which influence learning.
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3.00 Credits
This course prepares candidates to successfully integrate digital media and technology into learner curricula. Through demonstrations, hands-on use, and application projects, candidates gain experience with the roles digital tools play to support teaching methods and learning strategies associated with a continuum of learning approaches and goals. Candidates develop skills in digital citizenship and copyright, HTML, creating an online presence, social learning and collaboration, differentiation using technology, digital storytelling, use of Web 2.1 tools (e.g., content management systems, social networks, e-portfolios), digital video, and virtual worlds, and common software packages in order to design and formatively assess engaging learning communities. Embedded in the course are the skills needed to use close reading strategies both in personal use and in designing digital lessons around Common Core Literacy Standards with students. Candidates will also learn how to access and collect data.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on teaching the mind, body, and spirit components of a healthy lifestyle. Particular emphasis will be placed on the important role of exercise, family and community, work and diet in maintaining good health. Recent findings and reports in medicine, exercise, diet, and nutrition will be discussed. This course includes health services, health education, and healthy school environments.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a survey and examination of development from the prenatal period through adolescence with emphasis on the characteristics of children who are in kindergarten through grade six. Social, cognitive, and physical development are included. Appropriate interventions for students with developmental gaps are a focus. The role of the family in child development and safety for young children are included. Students are required to prepare a case study of a child in grades K-6.
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3.00 Credits
The relationship of language to developing literacy (reading and writing) is studied. Social and cultural language differences, language acquisition, assessment of language, and metacognition are emphasized. The relationship of early literacy experiences to stages of development of receptive and expressive language is linked to instructional implications.
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3.00 Credits
This course includes content, methods, and demonstration of proficiency in the literacy areas of reading, written composition, listening, oral communication, grammar and usage, and spelling. Students are expected to develop materials, lesson plans, units, and methods for teaching the elements of language arts/reading in an integrated way. A team approach with other teachers and the integration of other content areas are emphasized in the course. A virtual clinical experience from schools using "best practices" is required.
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3.00 Credits
Students learn selection and evaluation of teaching methods, use of curriculum, use of technology, and preparation of instructional materials appropriate for social science content. Emphasis is placed on an integrated unit approach (integrating both the social sciences with other major content areas). A virtual clinical experience from schools using "best practices" is required.
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2.00 Credits
This course is an examination and analysis of contemporary programs for young children. Professional ethics and diversity issues are emphasized. Parenting issues, including parent education and involvement in the educational process, are major themes. Family structure and development and their relationship to the schooling of young children are included.
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