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  • 3.00 Credits

    Provides candidates with authentic experiences to enhance knowledge and skills. The internship is a specialized experience where students are placed in an educational setting to engage in the roles and responsibilities outlined by the university instructor. Field assignments will be based upon the student's specialized program and predetermined competencies as set forth by the university instructor. Course may be repeated for credit.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Focuses on strategies for effective discipline and classroom management including how to create and maintain a supportive learning environment that promotes the healthy development for students. Presents the methods of planning for the beginning of the year and for establishing an effective classroom atmosphere that promotes learning throughout the year. Current models and major theories of discipline are reviewed and evaluated. Students are encouraged to take this course the semester prior to student teaching.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Provides students with a foundational understanding of learning from a neuroscientific perspective. Evidence-based instructional structures and principles of teaching are analyzed. Topics include: establishing classroom procedures, developing instructional objectives, sequencing learning activities, retrieval practice techniques, and differentiated instruction. Class project includes a detailed direct instruction lesson plan with an inquiry-based extension activity. Three hours lecture per week.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Focuses on strategies for effective discipline and classroom management including how to create and maintain a supportive learning environment that promotes the healthy development for students. Presents the methods of planning for the beginning of the year and for establishing an effective classroom atmosphere that promotes learning throughout the year. Current models and major theories of discipline are reviewed and evaluated.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Provides study of the application of the research and theories in human development, cognition, and learning to PreK-12 educational and institutional settings. Students use research and models in in human development, cognition, and learning as the basis upon which to make choices about interacting with and motivating students, reaching out to families, planning instruction and assessments, motivating students and organizing the classroom environment.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Provides a foundation to diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice within diverse US educational contexts. Students will explore their personal attitudes and bias about the current global and cultural diversity issues impacting public education and how it may influence their effectiveness as teachers of adolescents from international and diverse backgrounds. Students will analyze and create effective instructional materials, lessons, and assessments for English Language Learners with a culturally responsive and sustaining lens.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Focuses on designing, utilizing and analyzing multiple types of assessments that effectively measure student mastery of the curriculum. Teacher candidates will evaluate the validity and reliability of traditional and performance based assessments and prepare to apply assessment practices that match instructional strategies, are culturally relevant, support diverse students' development and learning, and authentically measure student performance. Differentiated assessment practices will be addressed for all learners in today's inclusive schools.
  • 3.00 - 9.00 Credits

    Provides candidates with authentic experiences to enhance knowledge and skills. The internship is a specialized experience where students are placed in an educational setting to engage in the roles and responsibilities outlined by the university instructor. Field assignments will be based upon the student's specialized program and predetermined competencies as set forth by the university instructor. Course may be repeated for credit.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Focuses on strategies for effective discipline and classroom management including how to create and maintain a supportive learning environment that promotes the healthy development for students. Presents the methods of planning for the beginning of the year and for establishing an effective classroom atmosphere that promotes learning throughout the year. Current models and major theories of discipline are reviewed and evaluated. Students are encouraged to take this course the semester prior to student teaching.