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3.00 Credits
SU, WI Students use their own experiences with computers to address the interaction between computers and learning theory. They have opportunities to improve their personal computer skills. Emphasis is on designing, building and using cognitive tools that can assist diverse learners in their understanding of curricular content. Of particular importance is the use of computers to enhance higher order thinking skills in a way that demonstrates congruence between Washington's Essential Academic Learning Requirements and appropriate assessment strategies.
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3.00 Credits
SU Topics addressed include: the influences of families' and teachers' attitudes;school leadership; school climate; and district, state and federal policies on the lives of schools. Special attention is given to the ways in which selected policies and mandates aid or obstruct efforts to reach out to families and the community. Students investigate the effect of the school's family and community involvement on student learning.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
An exploration of the history, philosophy, and current practices of progressive and alternative education within American public and private education. Through readings and conversations with educators, students consider the visions and dilemmas of individuals who have created alternative or progressive classrooms and schools. Students learn how alternative and progressive methods can inform one's practice within a traditional system, how to develop a classroom and school congruent with progressive practices, and identify resources and networks to support progressive and alternative teachers and administrators.
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3.00 Credits
SU, WI Students explore specific theorists and themes in child development and learning and the implications for classroom instruction and learning.
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3.00 Credits
SU, WI Curriculum development, instructional theory and assessment techniques are the focus. Students look at a spectrum of educational issues, from theories of learning to the nuts and bolts of lesson planning and assessment rubrics. Throughout the course, students use a critical and multicultural lens to understand the role of schooling in a democratic society. They also explore a variety of instructional methods they apply directly to their instructional units.
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4.00 Credits
Consideration of major curricular orientations in education (dominant ideas and practices, as well as those that confront mainstream orientations and beliefs); investigates their pedagogical, social and political origins within American culture; and examines critiques of these orientations particularly from the perspectives of children and adolescents from non-dominant American cultures.
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3.00 Credits
SU Why the arts? How are they manifested in diverse cultures? Why do psychological, philosophical, spiritual and artistic views of the arts collide, harmonize or collude? Participants deepen their understanding, appreciation and confidence to guide their potential students and themselves into the core of being human, generating beauty, communion and zest for life. Students explore with joy, humor and purpose the ways the arts can articulate soul and bring forth community, self-expression and celebration.
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2.00 Credits
FA, SP What are current perspectives about blending arts such as dance, drama, music and visual art into academic disciplines? How can the two create synergy, motivation and deep understanding of the interlinking concepts, skills and knowledge of each to help empower the learner? How does the creative process transform the classroom? Students explore these questions through various methods that are a lively fusion of practice, theory and possibility, all grounded in an experiential context.
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3.00 Credits
FA Integrate creative arts (music, visual arts, drama and creative movement/dance) into planning academic, technological and multicultural curricula for K-8 classrooms. Students are introduced to the basic elements, principles, related concepts and vocabulary of the creative arts, and learn to apply district and state (EALR) guidelines for the creative arts curriculum. The course expands exposure to and appreciation of creative arts methods that can be applied to specific classroom instruction.
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3.00 Credits
SU, SP Examination of complex issues involved in social studies education. Application of best practices in planning, instruction and assessment.
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