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• ELEC 607: Classroom Teacher Leadership

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course is intended to help teachers develop knowledge, skill, and dispositions in assuming leadership roles and responsibilities in their schools, districts, and the educational community. This course will focus on those aspects of leadership seen as most appropriate and potentially beneficial for teacher involvement. Particular attention will be paid to the relationship between teacher leadership, school effectiveness, and site-based accountability. Students will learn the knowledge, skills, and attitudes through both university classroom and site-based clinical activities.
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• ELEC 608: Historical, Psychological & Linguistic Foundations of Literacy

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  A survey of the historical, psychological, and linguistic foundations that support current teaching-learning theories of reading instruction.
  ShareELEC 608 - Historical, Psychological & Linguistic Foundations of Literacy

• ELEC 610: The Reading Program in the Elementary School

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  An in-depth study of reading development, materials, and instruction from emergent literacy through reading in the third grade.
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• ELEC 612: The Reading Program in the Middle/Secondary School

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course is designed to assist candidates in understanding the language and literacy process as it applies to teaching in the middle and high schools. Particular attention is paid to reading and writing in the content areas and instructional strategies to support students' literacy development. The course will focus on ways in which reading, writing, speaking, and listening are developed and used within the learning of discipline-specific curriculum, including adaptation for culturally diverse and exceptional learners.
  ShareELEC 612 - The Reading Program in the Middle/Secondary School

• ELEC 613: Families and Communities as Advocates and Partners in Early Childhood Programs

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course examines research and practice as related to multiple facets of family, school and community functioning and engagement in early childhood education. an awareness of strategies in developing positive and supportive relationships with families of young children, including the legal and philosophical basis for family participation; community-centered services; and strategies for working with socially, culturally and linguistically diverse families will be included. Family involvement in early childhood programs and parent education will be stressed. Furthermore, this course will seek to explore the roles professionals who desire to gain advanced knowledge and leadership skills as child advocates and professional educators.
  ShareELEC 613 - Families and Communities as Advocates and Partners in Early Childhood Programs

• ELEC 614: Foundations of Instructional Coaching

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course will focus on introducing participants to best practices for K-12 instructional coaches. Topics will include providing leadership for K-12 curriculum programs, collaboration with teachers and administrators, data analysis, curriculum issues, knowledge of K-12 standards, and professional development facilitation. These foundations will provide students with experience in working with teachers to improve their instructional practice as well as student achievement. Special attention will be given to mastering the complexities of observing and modeling inclassrooms and providing feedback to teachers.
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• ELEC 615: Teacher Leadership & School Change for Instructional Coaches

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course is designed to develop the understandings and skills of teachers as leaders in school change, through the lens of the instructional coach. Candidates will explore theories of organizational change as they apply to schools and school culture, focusing on current formal and informal opportunities for leadership. Candidates will apply the strategies and approaches in several authentic contexts.
  ShareELEC 615 - Teacher Leadership & School Change for Instructional Coaches

• ELEC 616: Advanced Child Development: Birth through Grade 4

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  Advanced Child Development: Birth through Grade 4 will provide an advanced overview of key aspects of child development (physical intellectual, emotional and social) from theories and research that span conception to the early school years (birth to age 9). Important contexts that shape children's development will also be a major focus of this course, such as family, school, community, socioeconomic and policy influences.
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• ELEC 617: Historical Contexts and Current Issues and Trends in the Education of Young Children

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  Historical Contexts and Current Issues & Trends in the Education of Young Children is designed to explore the field of early childhood education, placing emphasis on historical and contemporary perspectives and theories, as well as current trends and developments. Candidates will be expected to analyze a variety of early childhood environments and educational contexts for children (birth through nine years of age), in light of their personal interest and background knowledge. Candidates will be exposed to a variety of early childhood settings and philosophies via recorded observations of children and classrooms.
  ShareELEC 617 - Historical Contexts and Current Issues and Trends in the Education of Young Children

• ELEC 618: Using Technology within Early Childhood Education

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course will acquaint candidates with the appropriate types and uses of technology in an early childhood classroom. Specific technologies will be explored with connections to early childhood development, curriculum and assessment. Cultural, legal and ethical issues will be included. Family and community connections will also be examined.
  ShareELEC 618 - Using Technology within Early Childhood Education