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• EDU 450: FOUNDATIONS IN STEM EDU

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  This transdisciplinary course provides insight into the historical, fundamental, and contemporary ideas of the nature of K-12 STEM education. Students explore contemporary K-12 STEM education developments, opportunities, and challenges from both discipline-based and integrative approaches. Through inquiry, students will examine current STEM education initiatives and modern integrative STEM educational considerations pe1taining to policy, structure, and student learning. Finally, this course addresses the specific set of competencies that are relevant to teaching and learning STEM, including knowledge of standards (Next Generation Science Standards, PA Mathematics Standards, PA Science and Technology Standards), the need for authentic instruction, inquiry-based methodologies, design processes, and the important role of STEM in workforce preparation and responding to global issues.
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• EDU 452: STEM EDU PEDAGOGY

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course examines the implementation of best practices in integrative STEM education and prepares teachers to create, implement, and reflect upon lessons designed to help students master content standards and STEM-based skills. This course also addresses the issues and knowledge that are relevant for teaching and learning, including integration of Pennsylvania's Standards Aligned System (SAS). Students explore the signature pedagogies unique to the fields of STEM education. Students also obtain an awareness of multiple models of teaching and learning, including inquiry-based instruction, project-based learning, use of instructional technologies, higher-order questioning strategies, critical thinking, collaborative problem solving, design and reflection cycles, STEM literacy skills, purposeful grouping, and differentiated instruction. This course will include five hours of fieldwork in a STEM setting.
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• EDU 454: STEM EDU SKILLS APP & ASSESS

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course will cover the demonstration and application of STEM and 21st Century Learning skills. Course topics include higher-order thinking skills, creative problem solving, representation of real-world phenomena, and manipulation of technology. Candidates will learn to assess students using technology enhanced, formative and summative assessments that measure mastery of 21st century skills, consistent with integrative STEM classroom learning. This course includes 10 hours of fieldwork in STEM classrooms.
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• EDU 456: STEM EDU LEARNING SEMINAR

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course is the culmination of teacher candidates' work and experiences in the STEM endorsement ce1iificate program. The learning seminar engages teacher candidates with the real world data, tools, and expe1is they will encounter in STEM-related fields and further develops their critical thinking and practical work skills. This course examines technologies that are particular to STEM education and explores several significant, contemporary topics related to research in STEM education. Course instruction follows a seminar format appropriate for field experience activities, including facilitated discussions and personal reflections. This course requires candidates to complete a 25-hour on-site experience with a STEM professional.
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• EDU 490: TEACHER INTERN

  0.00 - 12.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course is the capstone course for students who are obtaining Pennsylvania certification through the Teacher Intern Program. A fieldwork placement similar to student teaching is included in this experience. Department approval is required.
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• EDU 491: TUT METHDS FOR LITRCY VOL

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course will prepare undergraduate students in various academic disciplines to perform volunteer literacy tutoring and community service. The course will feature instruction in various literacy strategies, tutoring methods, and materials, including Laubach, Orton-Gillingham, Language Experience Approach, and ESOL, combined with instruction in affective strategies such as building self-esteem, establishing a climate conducive to learning, and reducing anxiety in the adult learner. Students will be required to serve as volunteer tutors.
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• EDU 496: MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course is designed to help pre-service and in-service teachers and other education professionals to design and implement effective teaching strategies that reflect diversity, and to derive sound guidelines for multi-cultural programs and practices. The life realities, needs, and aspirations of culturally different children and youth are analyzed. Sources of content will be scholarly writings, field investigations, and community resources in foreign countries or American subcultures. Students will be participant observers conducting ethnographic qualitative research in cultural settings different from the mainstream American macro-culture.
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• EDU 500: METHODS OF RESEARCH

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course is a general introduction to the rationale and procedures for educational research. Types of research, selection of a research problem, the use of the library, manual and computerized search strategies, collection and application of data, and the research report will be explored. This is background for the preparation of the thesis or the research project.
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• EDU 503: THESIS

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  In this course, graduate students are required to work closely with a thesis supervisor, follow research guidelines, and complete the writing of a thesis. Graduate students will synthesize the knowledge and skills developed in previous research courses and apply them to the thesis writing process. In this course, students will learn about the various aspects of developing and carrying out an educational research study, including defining the field of research, formulating the research problem, identifying and articulating a research question, conducting a focused review of literature, selecting an appropriate research methodology, carrying out the research design, gathering data, analyzing data, and organizing revising, and preparing the thesis for submission. Through discussions of both published research and student work, the course examines the conventions of scholarly discourse, strategies of analysis and argumentation, and the ways in which writing can serve as a means to disseminate findings.
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• EDU 515: CREATIVE LEARNING MATLS

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  Students learn the development, use, and evaluation of learning materials for communication, social learning, science, mathematics, creative movement, music, poetry, and dramatics for elementary and middle schools. Motivational value and effectiveness as well as applications are stressed.
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