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3.00 Credits
The aim of the introductory course is to introduce some basic questions about the nature and goals of education, its history, and theoretical explanations of influences on learning, teaching, and schooling. We will incorporate both classic and current texts. The core course will incorporate several disciplinary perspectives.
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2.00 Credits
This course will focus on various aspects that affect a school setting that is undergoing reflections of its teaching and learning practices. After a discussion of current trends and practices in education, students will explore the reality gap between current curriculum and its preparation of future students to thrive in a global economy. Throughout the course, students will be challenged to think about new ways to enhance student learning in the following areas: literacy, creativity, critical thinking, and problem solving. Students will be presented issues through research and guest speakers that impact educational settings, e.g., cultural diversity, gender equity, special student populations such as children with autism, health related concerns such as childhood obesity, and poverty. After understanding the culture of a local school and weaving together the educational challenges and innovations presented at seminar, students will create, implement, and evaluate an authentic learning experience that could be used by other mentors or volunteers in K - 8 schools. Requirements include approximately two hours per week of community service at St.Adalbert's School. Department Approval Required.
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3.00 Credits
The success or failure of students in school has been the subject of much research and debate, particularly for students whose racial, ethnic, linguistic, or social class backgrounds differ from that of the dominant group. This course will focus on both the individual experiences (psychological responses), and how societal and educational structures, policies, and practices affect student learning. Students will explore ways that teachers, individually and collectively, can provide high quality education in spite of obstacles that may get in the way. Multicultural education will be placed within a broad sociopolitical context considering education, politics, society, and economics.
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1.00 Credits
Think GREEN - Generating and Guiding Reflective Environmental Education Networks in K-12 Classrooms will focus on environmental issues in which K-12 students can take an active role to help make a difference and/or change attitudes or behaviors. After discussions of environmental issues through film, presentations, readings, and blog interactions, students will explore the ND Green Initiatives; ND Forum on the Environment; Indiana Department of Education's Learn Green, Live Green 2008 initiative as well as other environmental educational programs for K-12 students. Students will use critical thinking strategies, curriculum ideas, and environmental education resources to create a service project or plan an action research project.. Requirements include work with a K-12 school, science club, or after school program for a minimum of 10 hours during the semester. Course will include a maximum of five seminars on environmental education topics, attending the ND Forum and follow-up discussions; participating in a blog; several small group projects. Department Approval Required.
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1.00 Credits
ESS 33604 is a one credit seminar for students who want to serve as Student Learning Specialists with the No Parent Left Behind program in the South Bend community. This seminar will give students the necessary tools to create and implement effective learning activities with children in need. We will primarily focus on prior knowledge assessment, literacy acquisition and basic math skills. Strategies for Instruction will also prepare students to invite parents into their children's education and intellectual growth, so the effective learning strategies begun by the Student Learning Specialist can be continued and reinforced in the home.
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3.00 Credits
Forces of globalization are profoundly changing the experiences and opportunity structures of young people in an increasingly interconnected world. While there is a growing recognition that the knowledge-based global economy requires a new paradigm for education in the 21st century, a significant segment of the world's largest generation of adolescents remains vulnerable, disengaged and disenfranchised from education. Against this backdrop, this course will explore the critical issues confronting education in developing countries in different regions of the world. The course has a strong applied focus and the readings will be drawn primarily from policy documents on current topics in international educational development. At the same time, the underlying theoretical and conceptual issues will be accessible to students through supplementary research articles and critical commentaries. LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Students taking this course will: 1) gain a critical understanding of the broader global development context in which educational policy takes shape in low-income countries, 2) develop operational fluency in key contemporary policy issues and institutional actors in international educational development; and 3) enhance their awareness of an educational development framework that is informed by the dynamic interdependencies of the global and the local.
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1.00 Credits
This course examines coaching children and adolescents as an educational ministry. We will explore the ways sports participation contributes to athletes' development as integrated human beings and the role that coaches can play in fostering that development. We will reflect on the nature of sports as play and on the motivational and moral aspects of sports participation. Finally, we will consider Bart Giamatti's reflection on the spiritual nature of sports: "I believe we have played games and watched games to imitate the gods, to become more godlike in our worship of each other, and through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know." Course participants can be certified as official "Play Like A Champion Today" trainers at the completion of the course.
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1.00 Credits
This course is designed to provide principles and methods necessary to become an effective coach at the youth and interscholastic levels. The focus will include coaching philosophy, qualities for successful leadership, strategies for effective and cohesive programs, developing a sound understanding coaching philosophy at various levels, and gaining an understanding of the art and science of coaching. This course and ESS 33606 (Social Foundations of Coaching) are prerequisites for ESS 33608, a practicum in coaching which will be offered in Spring 2010.
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3.00 Credits
The purpose of this course is to examine the complexities of education within local context, and to highlight the unique histories of how race and ethnicity are lived in Midwestern communities. Because much of the academic literature that addresses race and ethnicity focuses on large urban areas or upon the East or West coasts, the Midwestern context is often overlooked. During this course, students will be asked to examine particular states in the Midwest such as Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Michigan. In addition, we will pay particular attention to rural areas in places like Iowa and Nebraska, as well as the urban educational systems of Chicago, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Milwaukee and Detroit. Through our readings and discussion, we will come to better understand the ways in which geographic location, regional history, shifting ethnic composition and regional policy decisions impact public education in the Midwest.
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3.00 Credits
American Education mirrors American society with myriad challenges, successes, and ideologies. This course will look at how political struggles over race, language, gender, and class have all played out in the battle over American schools, schools that ultimately hold the literal future of America. This course will explore the History of Education in American from the late 1865 to the present and will have special emphasis on segregated schools in the 19th century and today. The course will also look closely at the very best programs re-shaping American education such as The Alliance for Catholic Education and KIPP. The course will look at education from Kindergarten all the way through graduate programs as we study how our institutions have formed and how they form and transform our society.
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