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  • EDU 342: Language Arts Methods

    3.00 Credits
    Centre College

    Designed to prepare students to teach language arts or English in schools, this course emphasizes the planning and implementation of curriculum along with a variety of methods to teach it. Interdisciplinary planning is stressed. Students work with state and national standards and recommendations, and they locate, evaluate, and use curricular resources including resources dealing with minority groups. Disputes and competing approaches are included. Using research findings, students develop diagnostic instructional practices, particularly related to the teaching of reading, literature, and the writing process. A field component is required. Prerequisite: EDU 336 or EDU 335 and admission to the Education Program or declared education minor.
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  • EDU 343: Science Methods

    3.00 Credits
    Centre College

    Designed to prepare students to teach science in schools. Topics include national standards, science concepts, resources including the use of technology, instructional strategies and assessment of student knowledge and skills, and integration of science with other content areas. A field component is required. Prerequisite: EDU 336 or EDU 335 and admission to the Education Program or declared education minor.
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  • EDU 344: Social Studies Methods

    3.00 Credits
    Centre College

    Designed to prepare students to teach social studies in schools. This course emphasizes competing approaches in both social studies curriculum and methods. Recommendations as well as state and national standards from social studies professional groups are studied. Students become aware of and able to use resources available to social studies teachers, such as ERIC, the materials of the National Archives, History Alive! and other primary sources, and materials by other groups such as those that deal with black history, local history, women's history, Native American history, Hispanic history, etc. In order to plan, teach, and assess lessons, a field component is required. Prerequisite: EDU 336 or EDU 335 and admission to the Education Program or declared education minor.
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  • EDU 345: Math Methods

    3.00 Credits
    Centre College

    Designed to prepare students to teach mathematics in schools. The standards and methods advocated by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics are analyzed as part of the study of changes in math curriculum and methods. In addition to studying content, topics include instructional strategies and resources, such as manipulatives, use of technology such as Geometer's Sketchpad, and assessment of student knowledge and skills. A field component is required. Prerequisite: EDU 336 and MAT 210 or EDU 335 and admission to the Education Program or declared education minor.
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  • EDU 349: Special Methods in Education

    3.00 Credits
    Centre College

    A course dealing with curriculum, models of teaching, technology, resources for teaching, research underlying teaching, and special methods in the student's teaching major. Attention is given to new demands on teachers such as those of the Kentucky Education Reform Act. Considerable time is spent in clinical experiences in local public schools where students teach, tutor, and serve as aides. Normally this course will be limited to art and foreign languages methods. Prerequisite: EDU 335 and admission to the Education Program or declared education minor.
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  • EDU 350: Practicum and Research in Education

    3.00 Credits
    Centre College

    A course allowing students to explore special topics related to such content areas as psychology or sociology with children outside the preparation for teaching. Students complete a research project in a local school. The course also includes weekly seminars incorporating student research and professional readings in education. Prerequisite: EDU 226, EDU 227 and EDU 228; major or minor in education.
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  • EDU 440: Geography for Teachers

    3.00 Credits
    Centre College

    A course to give students the background to teach geography at the secondary school level. The course deals with map and globe skills, physical geography, human geography, and regional geography. The course prepares students to take the geography portion of the PRAXIS social studies examination. Prerequisite: Admission to the Education Program or declared education minor.
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  • EDU 551: Elementary Student Teaching and Seminar in the Analysis of Teaching

    12.00 Credits
    Centre College

    Student teaching occurs during the long term. Weekly seminars examine such topics as analysis of teaching situations, working with parents, self-reflection, and professional expectations. Preparation of a professional development portfolio is required. Prerequisite: completion of coursework, approval of the Education Program faculty and the Teacher Education Committee.
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  • EDU 553 P-12: Student Teaching and Seminar in the Analysis of Teaching

    12.00 Credits
    Centre College

    Candidates for P-12 certification, in their senior year, spend one long term as student teachers in cooperating schools. Student teaching must be done in at least two of the three school levels-elementary, middle, and secondary. Included is a weekly seminar devoted to the role of the teacher and the analysis of teaching. Prerequisite: Approval of the subject area program committee, the Education Program faculty, and the Teacher Education Committee.
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  • EDU 555: Secondary Student Teaching and Seminar in the Analysis of Teaching

    12.00 Credits
    Centre College

    Candidates for secondary certification, in their senior year, spend one long term as student teachers in cooperating schools. Included is a weekly seminar devoted to the role of the teacher and the analysis of teaching. Prerequisite: Approval of the subject area program committee, the Education Program faculty, and the Teacher Education Committee.
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