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  • EDU 227: Teaching Mathematics to Children

    3.00 Credits
    Montgomery County Community College

    Teaching Mathematics to Children presents teaching techniques and materials used in contemporary pre-school/elementary mathematics programs. Students will learn ways to focus instruction on helping children understand and utilize mathematics effectively, think critically, and enforce mathematical standards throughout lessons. The mathematical content of this course is presented within the context of teaching.
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  • EDU 228: Literature in Early Childhood and Elementary Education

    3.00 Credits
    Montgomery County Community College

    Literature in Early Childhood and Elementary Education includes a comprehensive examination of children's literature, including a variety of genres, authors, and illustrators. Students will examine authors' literary styles and techniques and learn how to include children's literature in every content area of the curriculum. In addition, students will become familiar with literary elements and authors' uses of them in order to achieve a specific purpose. They will develop skills in the use of storytelling and dramatization. Students will learn how to assess the quality and appropriateness of children's literature for various ages.
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  • EDU 233: Early Childhood Curriculum

    3.00 Credits
    Montgomery County Community College

    Early Childhood Curriculum is a comprehensive course that addresses all aspects of teaching to young children. Students will explore approaches for educating infant/toddler, preschool, pre-kindergarten, and kindergarten students. Throughout the course, students will be engaged in lesson planning for individual activities and a thematic unit. Students will be exposed to various approaches to curriculum with an emphasis on play. Students will be expected to implement appropriate curricular strategies in an early childhood program. This course must be taken concurrently with EDU 250 (Student Teaching)
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  • EDU 240: Teaching English Language Learners

    3.00 Credits
    Montgomery County Community College

    Teaching English Language Learners enables students to better meet the challenge of educating English Language Learners in the inclusive classroom. This course will emphasize differentiating instruction for English Language Learners, strategies and materials needed to educate English Language Learners, second language acquisition, cultural sensitivity, challenges for English Language Learners in content area classes, and Pennsylvania Language Proficiency Standards for English Learners. This course also addresses PA teaching certification guidelines, as specified in Chapter 49-2.
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  • EDU 245: Connecting Families, Schools and Communities

    3.00 Credits
    Montgomery County Community College

    Connecting Families, Schools, and Communities explores the concept of family, beginning with an understanding of their own families. Students will also explore diverse family structures, communication styles, parenting styles, family roles, and community engagement. Students will learn how to create meaningful relationships with families in order to enhance learning opportunities for children. In addition, students will investigate community organizations that support families and schools in order to develop community connections and be able to provide information to families. Finally, students will investigate and simulate family/teacher conferences in order to prepare them for that aspect of family/teacher communication.
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  • EDU 250: Student Teaching

    6.00 Credits
    Montgomery County Community College

    Student Teaching provides significant field experience for students in the Education in the Early Years Program: Birth through Fourth Grade program. It acts as a capstone course for this program. Students spend 15 hours per week observing, planning and implementing their lesson plans in an early childhood classroom under the daily supervision of an experienced teacher. Students also construct and complete a full professional portfolio. A faculty member from the College oversees the entire placement, including arranging for the placement, orienting the on-site teacher and director, observing the student teacher on a regular basis, and providing feedback to the student teacher based on the observations. A student will not be placed in a center/school at which he/she is currently employed, and therefore a student can not be paid for any services conducted during the student teaching course time (M-F, 9:00-12:00). Transportation is the responsibility of the student. A student can only meet the student teaching requirements if he/she is placed in a center/school This course is taken at the end of the program in conjunction with EDU 233, Early Childhood Curriculum. Students need permission of a faculty member or advisor before registering for student teaching. A student must get permission to register for EDU 250 from a student teacher supervisor or Education advisor. This course is subject to a course fee.
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  • EGR 102: Introduction to Engineering

    3.00 Credits
    Montgomery County Community College

    This course provides solid foundation of skills to solve engineering problems. Students demonstrate problem solving techniques with spreadsheets, dimensions and units; use modeling techniques and interpret validity of experimental results. Students design projects on multi-discipline teams. The course introduces professional and societal issues appropriate to engineering. Various forms of technical communication are emphasized.
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  • EGR 111: Engineering Computations

    3.00 Credits
    Montgomery County Community College

    In engineering environments, it is critical to recognize when and how a computer can assist in the analysis of a problem. This course will introduce the key concepts of good programming practice and show how computer programming directly relates to solving engineering problems. Multiple programming environments are used, each one emphasizing the same core concepts, yet customized to support a specific category of engineering problem application. This course is subject to a course fee.
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  • EGR 115: Engineering Graphics

    3.00 Credits
    Montgomery County Community College

    This course covers the basics of 3-Dimensional Solid Modeling design from conception through to final product production. Drawing, dimensioning, and tolerancing techniques are discussed as well as fitment and scaling. Solutions to 3D problems and spatial analysis through descriptive geometry are also analyzed. This course is subject to a course fee.
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  • EGR 203: Engineering Statics

    3.00 Credits
    Montgomery County Community College

    This course describes the mechanical behavior of materials and systems in equilibrium using Newton's laws of motion. Students will learn the principles of force and moment equilibrium, construction and analysis of free-body diagrams, understanding distributed forces, friction, and structural response. This course is subject to a course fee.
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