Education

Description:
This course examines the interrelationships among students, schools and society. Participants learn about the ways in which race, class, language, and ethnicity influence how we define ourselves and each other in our various encounters within the broader culture of US society. The course examines the historical antecedents influencing how the lives of the immigrant and colonized peoples in the US are defined. It is designed as a foundation for understanding the policies, goals, assumptions, strategies, and practices of multicultural approaches to education; and draws on a variety of models to construct educational curricula that are multicultural and socially reconstructionist. Readings are placed within the context of public schooling today in order to develop students’ "cultural consciousness" of the shared societal assumptions that we bring to our teaching experiences.

Academic Information:
Prerequisite: None.
Distribution I Area: None.
Distribution II Area: None.
Diversity Area: None.

Description:
This course examines the interrelationships among students, schools and society. Participants learn about the ways in which race, class, language, and ethnicity influence how we define ourselves and each other in our various encounters within the broader culture of US society. The course examines the historical antecedents influencing how the lives of the immigrant and colonized peoples in the US are defined. It is designed as a foundation for understanding the policies, goals, assumptions, strategies, and practices of multicultural approaches to education; and draws on a variety of models to construct educational curricula that are multicultural and socially reconstructionist. Readings are placed within the context of public schooling today in order to develop students’ "cultural consciousness" of the shared societal assumptions that we bring to our teaching experiences.

Academic Information:
Prerequisite: None.
Distribution I Area: None.
Distribution II Area: None.
Diversity Area: None.

Description:
This course will explore the use of online resources and tools in education. Special attention will be given to the integration of web resources with curriculum. Topics will include Internet search strategies, utilization of web resources, development of instructional web sites, electronic portfolio assessments and online instruction.

Academic Information:
Prerequisite: None.
Distribution I Area: None.
Distribution II Area: None.
Diversity Area: None.

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Description:
This course provides participants with methods and strategies for evaluating and designing educational software and other applications of advanced information technology.

Academic Information:
Prerequisite: EDC G 610 or permission of instructor.
Distribution I Area: None.
Distribution II Area: None.
Diversity Area: None.

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Description:
This course deals with the teaching of writing, the teacher as writer, and the interactions between reading and writing. Readings and presentations offer up-to-date information, theory, and practical techniques for teaching reading and writing in all subject areas.Students meet regularly in reader-writerresponse groups to work on their own writing and to respond to one another's writing about reading. There are a number of guest lecture-demonstrations by elementary and secondary teachers who are teacher/consultants with the Boston Writing Project. The course combines writing process theory with practical methods.

Academic Information:
Prerequisite: Permission of Instructor except in the following cases: MEd w/Initial - Elementary: EDC G 603, 606, 630, and 644, or in (sub)plans MEd w/Prof - Elem-Mid-Second, Post-Mast Cert w/Prof - Elem-Mid-Seond, or MEd w/Initial or Prof Licensure.
Distribution I Area: None.
Distribution II Area: None.
Diversity Area: None.

Description:
This course examines the theoretical and practical issues that teachers must address as they implement effective inclusion of children with disabilities in general education classrooms. Topics include: the legal foundations of inclusion; appropriate strategies for supporting the academic, behavioral and social aspects of inclusive teaching and strategies for productive interactions with other educators and parents. The central premise of this course is that inclusion requires collective attention to individual needs within the general education program. Participants will become familiar with the roles of the general education teacher in special education; develop learning and behavior plans to address student needs and gain practice in analyzing school activities to maximize effective participation by a range of students. Field experience components are included.

Academic Information:
Prerequisite: None.
Distribution I Area: None.
Distribution II Area: None.
Diversity Area: None.

Description:
This course examines current research and theory about human intellectual, social, and affective development from infancy through adolescence. Topics include the development of linguistic, symbolic, and quantitative systems, cognition, creativity, the developmental interactions of culture, thought, language, and learning, and the implications of current developmental theory and research for educators.

Academic Information:
Prerequisite: None.
Distribution I Area: None.
Distribution II Area: None.
Diversity Area: None.

Description:
This course introduces theoretical and instructional issues in the development of reading, writing, listening, and speaking. It engages participants in reflective, critical consideration of students' diverse needs in the acquisition of literacy. Strong emphasis is given to assessment-driven instruction in a comprehensive literacy program requiring eight hours of daytime field experience. Topics include a study of oral language as it affects emergent literacy development via use of the running record; literacy lesson planning; strategies for beginning reading and writing; classroom management issues related to responsive, differentiated literacy instruction; and ideas for strengthening the home-school connection. A consistent focus is the teacher's role as a knowledgeable decision-maker and skilled practitioner in facilitating literacy learning in a caring, principled, respectful manner.

Academic Information:
Prerequisite: None.
Distribution I Area: None.
Distribution II Area: None.
Diversity Area: None.

Description:
Content literacy, as it is expressed through reading and writing in schools, is the focus of this course. The course aims to provide students with the following knowledge, skills and strategies: developing students content responses in writing in the middle and secondary classroom; understanding the reading process and the notion of content literacy; assessing student writing and reading responses, as well as selecting and assessing appropriate content and texts; understanding how English language learners approach reading and writing in the classroom; and understanding the current research on various areas related to content literacy. The course will introduce students to various reading and writing strategies and contexts/ approaches to enhance reading and writing in middle and high school classrooms. The course focuses on the interplay between reading and writing in schools. The course readings and assignments offer up-to-date information, theory, and practical techniques for developing the use of writing and understanding reading in all subject areas.

Academic Information:
Prerequisite: None.
Distribution I Area: None.
Distribution II Area: None.
Diversity Area: None.

Description:
This course examines current principles of curriculum and instruction, and state and national standards for the teaching of the disciplines at the middle and secondary school levels. Students review teaching materials and methods, design curriculum units, develop strategies for communicating with students from diverse backgrounds, do micro-teaching, design assessment and evaluation instruments, and critique their own and one another's efforts. This is a field-based course in which students are asked to reflect on the learning and teaching they see in a variety of school sites, and apply what they observe as they design curriculum units.

Academic Information:
Prerequisite: None.
Distribution I Area: None.
Distribution II Area: None.
Diversity Area: None.

Description:
This course examines current principles of curriculum and instruction, and state and national standards for the teaching of the disciplines at the middle and secondary school levels. Students review teaching materials and methods, design curriculum units, develop strategies for communicating with students from diverse backgrounds, do micro-teaching, design assessment and evaluation instruments, and critique their own and one another's efforts. This is a field-based course in which students are asked to reflect on the learning and teaching they see in a variety of school sites, and apply what they observe as they design curriculum units.

Academic Information:
Prerequisite: None.
Distribution I Area: None.
Distribution II Area: None.
Diversity Area: None.