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  • EDUCATION 072: Teaching Students With Special Needs

    3.00 Credits
    Hobart William Smith Colleges

    In this seminar students examine a variety of ways that teachers understand learners and design instruction in response to those learners. Students explore a range of strategies used by teachers to accommodate the needs of all students and discuss ways to evaluate student learning strengths and needs. (McCabe, Fall, offered annually)
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  • EDUCATION 073: Assessments and IEPs

    3.00 Credits
    Hobart William Smith Colleges

    This seminar focuses on the appropriate uses and limitations of some of the assessment tools used in special education. Alternate and adaptive assessment approaches are considered. Students are also introduced to the process of developing an educational plan. (Kelly, Spring, offered annually)
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  • EDUCATION 074: Collaboration and Management

    3.00 Credits
    Hobart William Smith Colleges

    This seminar investigates a variety of collaborative and management approaches effective teachers utilize. Students first explore the special education teacher's participation as a member of school district and building level interdisciplinary teams and as a team collaborator with general education teaching colleagues. Students then carefully consider the special education teacher's role as an advocate for students with special needs and their families. Finally, students examine classroom management strategies that promote a positive teaching-learning environment that supports all students. (Staff , Fall and Spring, offered annually)
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  • EDUCATION 081: Teaching for Equity

    3.00 Credits
    Hobart William Smith Colleges

    This seminar establishes the foundations for effective teaching. As students develop keen observation skills they examine human development processes as manifested in classrooms. They explore the teacher's complex role as well as the social context of schools. They are introduced to learning processes as they relate to motivation, lesson planning, and classroom management, and they study student diversity issues to insure that the needs of all students are met. In addition, the seminar outlines a framework for special education, IDEA, and curricular and instructional adaptation. (Banks, Sherman, Fall, offered annually)
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  • EDUCATION 082-01: Teaching Reading and Writing-Elementary

    3.00 Credits
    Hobart William Smith Colleges

    This seminar, in conjunction with the accompanying field placement, shows students contemporary approaches for assessing and teaching reading and writing in elementary schools. Topics include emergent literacy and beginning reading, as well as encouraging reading for pleasure and promoting reading and writing to learn. Attention is given to issues of vocabulary, phonological awareness, phonics, word recognition, fluency, and comprehension as encouraged by New York State Learning Standards. (Temple, Spring, offered annually)
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  • EDUCATION 082-02: Teaching Reading and Writing-Secondary

    3.00 Credits
    Hobart William Smith Colleges

    This seminar shows students how to use reading and writing to learn in secondary classrooms, including English as well as other disciplines. By taking the seminar and trying out the techniques in their accompanying field placement, students consider how to teach study skills, how to teach reading for meaning and for application, and how to promote writing in a range of genres, including as an aid to learning content subjects. (Temple, Fall, offered annually)
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  • EDUCATION 083-02: Teaching Secondary Science

    3.00 Credits
    Hobart William Smith Colleges

    This seminar focuses on inquiry teaching and learning approaches to science. Students engage in a variety of science activities designed to model different teaching strategies. They analyze their lessons, incorporate technology where appropriate, and adapt curriculum to meet the needs of all students. Students are encouraged to be reflective about their practice. Local, state and national resources are addressed with an emphasis on New York State Learning Standards. (MaKinster, Spring, offered annually)
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  • EDUCATION 083-03: Teaching Secondary Social Studies

    3.00 Credits
    Hobart William Smith Colleges

    The purpose of this seminar is to acquaint students with social studies teacher certification requirements, the literature and professional organizations that serve as resources in social studies instruction, the process and substance of curriculum (with emphasis on New York State Learning Standards), and issues that are central to social studies instruction in the United States. Included in the course are the use of instructional technology in teaching, evaluative techniques, and integrating the social dimension into geographic concepts. Readings include the New York State Resource Guide, Drake and Nelson's Engagement in Teaching History, selected literature for young people and selected articles from social studies journals. (Gibbon, Spring, offered annually)
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  • EDUCATION 083-04: Teaching Secondary English

    3.00 Credits
    Hobart William Smith Colleges

    This seminar examines the theoretical and practical dimensions of effective teaching and learning in secondary English classrooms. Students reflect on their field-based experiences in secondary school settings and make connections to the reading and writing processes. They design, assess and analyze lessons that incorporate the New York State Learning Standards, adapting the curriculum to meet the needs of all students when appropriate. They review the journals and organizations that support the profession and develop an understanding of educational technology and its function in the English classroom. (Staff, Spring, offered annually)
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  • EDUCATION 083-05: Teaching Secondary Foreign Language

    3.00 Credits
    Hobart William Smith Colleges

    This seminar addresses teaching, learning, and curriculum for students pursuing adolescent certification to teach a foreign language. After studying second language acquisition, students explore methods and techniques of teaching a language other than English as well as ways of developing cross-cultural understanding among adolescents. In addition to becoming familiar with New York State Learning Standards for teaching foreign language and other resources for teaching language, students explore ways to utilize technology and discuss means of assessing student achievement. (Staff, Spring, offered annually)
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