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  • MSED 485: Tch ELA in Sec Schools

    3.00 Credits
    Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

    Provides and in-depth review of the components of the English Language Arts discipline as it applies to the grades 7-12 curriculum and corresponding pedagogical approaches. Using PDE and NCTE guidelines, candidates design lessons plans, assessments, and a unit of study.
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  • MSED 490: Tch Soc Studies

    3.00 Credits
    Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

    Provides a competency-based course designed to provide the skills required to teach social at the mid-level or secondary school levels. Students will become familiar with current trends, organizational patterns, and instructional techniques in secondary social studies. Special emphases will be placed on using social studies research literature to locate innovative social studies strategies, knowledge of current affairs, design unit and lessons plans, and the teaching of social studies with global perspectives.
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  • MSED 491: Mid & Sec Level Stdnt Teach I

    6.00 Credits
    Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

    Provides teacher candidates with a site-based experience in a partner school in a classroom within the identified grade range/certification area. Candidates will gain experiences that allow them to develop, practice, and demonstrate competencies related to planning and preparation, instructional delivery, classroom environments and all facets of professionalism with supervision and feedback from university personnel and the certified mentor teacher in the placement classroom. Corequisite:    MSED 492
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  • MSED 492: Middle & Sec Level Stnt Tch II

    6.00 Credits
    Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

    Provides teacher candidates with a site-based experience in a partner school in a classroom within the identified grade range/certification area. Candidates will gain experiences that allow them to develop, practice, and demonstrate competencies related to planning and preparation, instructional delivery, classroom environments and all facets of professionalism with supervision and feedback from university personnel and the certified mentor teacher in the placement classroom. Corequisite:    MSED 491
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  • MSED 501: Contemp Issues in Ed

    3.00 Credits
    Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

    Provides students with an opportunity to explore, identify and critique contemporary issues in education. Students will employ critical thinking to evaluate and develop solutions to current problems and predict educational issues that may arise in the future. Students will have the opportunity to explore their own perceptions and behaviors that may influence their role in education.
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  • MSED 510: Intro Mid/Sec Ed

    3.00 Credits
    Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

    Provides an introduction to the education profession, with particular emphasis on teaching responsibilities, certification requirements, career prospects, and attributes of successful teachers. Topics include the social, philosophical, and historical foundations of education, schools in a multicultural society, political influences on education,, frameworks for teaching, and beginning a professional portfolio. This course includes a 6-10 hour field experience with students in the gr.4-12 grades.
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  • MSED 515: Tchn w Adol & Yng Adt Lit

    3.00 Credits
    Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

    A graduate-level study of adolescent and young adult literature designed for those who use literature with adolescents for identity development. In addition to a critical advanced-level survey of print, digital, and visual media created for young adults, this course focuses on techniques for using these materials as springboards to develop fluency, build vocabulary and knowledge of text structures through structured literacy experiences at an advanced level. Additional graduate-level topics include incorporating engagement and motivation through extensive reading, discussion, applications and syntheses.
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  • MSED 520: Content Area Literacy gr. 4-12

    3.00 Credits
    Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

    Identifies the processes that contribute to literacy development, with focus on young adolescence through early adulthood. Teacher candidates will effectively utilize best practices to design instructional plans and effectively choose and create materials that are effective for supporting literacy and comprehension in the content areas. Specific emphasis is given to advancing the knowledge of graduate students in navigating the controversies of the field and in selecting teaching practices that are informed by research and practice.
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  • MSED 525: Teaching Writing 4-12

    3.00 Credits
    Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

    Focuses on writing instruction and evaluation as it relates to middle and high school students (grades 4-12). This course is intended for graduate students and presents the teacher as writer, provides an in-depth examination of language acquisition, the traits and types of writing, examines elements of grammar, and introduces research on writing instruction, best practices, and assessment.
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  • MSED 540: Teach Mid Level Lang Art & SS

    3.00 Credits
    Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

    Analyzes and applies instructional strategies for planning and designing curriculum relevant for teaching language arts and social studies to young adolescents, grades four through eight. Emphasis will be made to the interdisciplinary relationship between language and literacy development and the social sciences. Attention will be placed on creating environments that support and advocate the diversity of learners as related to the AMLE, NCTE, and NCSS standards. Students are required to complete a field placement.
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