Tch El Lit: Assessmnt & Lrning
Prerequisites: Completion of Level I requirements. This course explores literacy achievement and assessment to guide developmentally appropriate instruction, including consideration of elementary students' cultural and linguistic backgrounds as well as special education services received. Assessment practices explored include running records, informal reading inventories, orthographic inventories, and analytic writing assessment. Teacher candidates will utilize assessment findings, children's literature, and global technologies to create purposeful, targeted literacy instruction for students.
Teaching El Lit: Inst & Lrning
Prerequisites: Completion of Level II requirements and ELE ED 3338. This course continues to explore developmentally appropriate literacy instruction for elementary students through deep exploration of methods of teaching reading and writing, including reading and writing workshops, guided reading, and word work / phonics. Particular attention will be paid to how these instructional methods might be adapted based upon students' cultural and linguistic backgrounds as well as special education services received. Teacher candidates will utilize a variety of assessments, children's literature, and global technologies to create a series of purposeful, targeted literacy lessons that reflect students evolving abilities over time.
Tchg Ele Math in Incl Set I
Prerequisites: Completion of mathematics requirements in General Education. This course explores pedagogical techniques and best practices for the creation and delivery of elementary mathematics curriculum to all students, including consideration of elementary students' cultural and linguistic backgrounds as well as special education services received. The mathematical content includes number and operations in base ten, fractions, decimals, percents, and proportional reasoning. Additional field experience may be required.
Tchg Ele Soc Sci in Incl Set
Prerequisites: Admission to Teacher Education Program and completion of social science requirements in general education. This course explores the teaching of current social studies curricular content in elementary settings. Topics include US history, geography, civics and government, economics, culture, and technology, and the appropriate teaching methods and development of related instructional materials. Particular attention will be paid to how these topics and strategies might be adapted based upon students' cultural and linguistic backgrounds as well as special education services received. Ten (10) clinical hours required to complete course assignments.
Tchg Science Elem School
Prerequisite: Admission into Teacher Education Program required. An analysis of teaching science to K-6 students with emphasis on current science education trends, science curricular materials, and strategies of instruction.
Tching Ele Math in Incl Set II
Prerequisite: ELE ED 4246. This course explores pedagogical techniques and best practices for the creation and delivery of elementary mathematics curriculum to all students, including consideration of elementary students' cultural and linguistic backgrounds as well as special education services received. The mathematical content of this course includes geometry, measurement, probability, statistics, and data analysis. Additional field experience may be required.
Pract I: Ele/Sp Ed Site Bsd Ex
Prerequisites: Accepted Practicum I application. This course is a two-day per week intensive, collaborative professional experience in inclusive K-12 settings with emphasis in elementary classrooms. This course emphasizes improving student learning outcomes, data-driven instruction, classroom management, and video use and analysis. Practicum I includes mandatory on-site and on-campus seminars which could be scheduled outside of normal class time. Students are required to take the appropriate DESE-mandated content exam during Practicum I.
Practm II:Ele/Sp Ed Ste Bsd Ex
Prerequisites: Successful completion of Practicum I. This course is a four-day per week intensive, collaborative professional experience in inclusive K-12 settings with emphasis in elementary classrooms. This course emphasizes improving student learning outcomes, data-driven instruction, classroom management, and video use and analysis. Practicum II includes mandatory on-site and on-campus seminars which could be scheduled outside of normal class time. Students are required to take the appropriate DESE-mandated content exam during Practicum II.
Practm I:Ele Ed/TESOL Site Bsd
Prerequisites: Accepted Practicum application. This course is a two-day per week intensive, collaborative professional experience in inclusive K-12 settings with emphasis in elementary classrooms. This course emphasizes improving student learning outcomes, data-driven instruction, classroom management, and video use and analysis. Particular emphasis will be given to differentiated instruction and impacting student achievement for diverse populations. Practicum I includes mandatory on-site and on-campus seminars which could be scheduled outside of normal class time. Students are required to take the appropriate DESE-mandated content exam during Practicum I.
Practm II:Ele/TESOL Ste Bsd Ex
Prerequisites: Successful completion of Practicum I requirements. This course is a four-day per week intensive, collaborative professional experience in inclusive K-12 settings with emphasis in elementary classrooms. This course emphasizes improving student learning outcomes, data-driven instruction, classroom management, and video use and analysis. Particular emphasis will be given to differentiated instruction and impacting student achievement for diverse populations. Practicum II includes mandatory on-site and on-campus seminars which could be scheduled outside of normal class time. Students are required to take the appropriate DESE-mandated content exam during Practicum II.
Prac I: Ele/Spec Ed Site Exp
Prerequisites: Director of Clinical Experience approval. This course is a 2 day per week intensive professional development experience working in K-12 settings with students with emphasis in inclusive elementary classrooms. On-site activities include partnering with the classroom teacher in all areas of instruction, assessment, and classroom management. Some methods course assignments may be completed during the practicum day at school sites. Activities to acquire research skills are included.
Prac II: Ele/Spec Ed Ste Exp
Prerequisites: Successful completion of Practicum I and Director of Clinical Experience approval. This course is a clinical teaching experience 4 days per week in inclusive elementary settings. Teacher candidates spend time in schools engaged in various capacities to improve student learning within small group instruction, whole class teaching, lesson planning and special programs to demonstrate proficiency on all professional teacher standards. Teacher candidates collect data for a research project.
Prerequisites: ED PSY 6030 or consent of instructor. Students will learn to improve their instruction through using various inquiry models of teaching which develop the thinking skills required by the Common Core standards. Prior instructional experience is recommended.
Rdg Specialist Practm I
Prerequisites: ELE ED 6684, ELE ED 6686, and ED REM 6707, ED REM 6709, or ED REM 6716. Application of reading theory and research in a supervised setting. Emphasis on assessing and analyzing the literacy strengths, needs, and interests of a range of readers with the goal of improving their reading abilities and attitudes. Focus is on establishing reading support for children with the assistance of formal and informal assessments, reading professionals, educators, and children's families.
Selected problems to meet the needs of individual students.
Inst'l Strat for Tch Rdg
Prerequisites: Graduate standing. Designed to extend teacher knowledge of effective instructional strategies for teaching reading. Emphasis on development of a teaching philosophy which acknowledges children gain considerable knowledge about reading from their families and communities, long before they encounter formal reading instruction. Focus on fostering culturally responsive classrooms using children's prior experiences, their language systems, cross-cultural literature, authentic texts, and other print materials familiar to children's home environments, as well as on teaching effective strategies to promote children's reading success.