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• EDR 347: Literacy Development and Secondary Students with Disabilities in Inclusive Classrooms

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course is designed to help students understand literacy acquisition and development for students with disabilities. The course focuses on the challenges that reading and writing pose for students with disabilities and how appropriate assessment and instructional techniques can be used to support these learners in the regular education classroom. Prerequisite:    EDR 347 requires prerequisites of EDA 103 or MUE 201.
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• EDR 420: Reading in the Content Areas

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course examines content area literacy as an integrated knowledge base used for learning with text across the curriculum. Strategies and practices, including the use of technology, for enhancing reading and learning in the content areas will be explored. Considerations for environmental, linguistic, cultural, and cognitive diversity will be included. Prerequisite:    EDR 420 requires prerequisite of EDR 307 or EDR 308
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• EDR 422: Seminar in Reading

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  Intensive study of current and major trends in practices in literacy related to K-12 education. Prerequisite:    EDR 422 requires prerequisite of EDR 307 or EDR 308
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• EDR 425: Teaching Multimodal Literacies

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  Participants will learn about expanding forms of print and electronic literacy that encompass three categories of new literacies, specifically, information literacy, critical literacy and literacy as global and social practice. They will explore theories, research and methodologies associated with these literacies and develop curricula that incorporate them.
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• EDS 306: Teaching Principles and Field Experience in Secondary Schools

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  Methods and strategies of teaching in secondary schools will be the core of the course. Implications of classroom management, learning, and other related problems will be discussed. Students will observe in a classroom for nine weeks. Prerequisite:    EDS 306 requires prerequisites of EDF 300 and Teacher Candidacy.
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• EDS 410: Independent Study

  1.00 - 3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  Special topics or projects initiated by the students that will enable them to do extensive and intensive study in an area of secondary education.
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• EDT 300: Intro to Educational Technology Integration

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  An overview of the integration of technology in teaching and learning with a focus on computer applications.
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• EDT 311: Social and Cultural Implications of Educational Technology

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course is focused on the social, cultural, economic, and educational implications of modern learning technologies. Participants will be analyzing current theoretical and empirical research for a broader understanding of the dynamic influences of learning technologies on the prospect of personal and collective transformation. The positive and negative effects of technology upon formal and informal learning spaces will be explored, as well as global issues, such as the impact of the online education industry, as well as aspects of learning technologies that might either improve or exasperate existing systems of inequality, privilege and oppression (i.e., the digital divide; who has and who does not have access to technology, why, and what can be done ).
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• EDT 349: Technology Tools to Transform Teaching and Learning

  1.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course provides teacher candidates with a supportive, yet challenging exploration of theoretical, and practical issues related to the effective integration of technology in teaching and learning. Building on participants' technology competency and prior course learning, the focus is on thoughtful selection and use of modern digital tools and advanced use of the Internet to transform 21st century learning environments. Web-based projects linked to standards as well as grade, subject, and certification needs, are designed to enhance and support teacher candidates' Early and Middle Grades teacher preparation work. Prerequisite:    EDT 349 requires a prerequisite of Teacher Candidacy.
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• EFR 301: United in Cultural Diversity: France and Germany in the European Union

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  This is a travel course that takes students to Paris, Brussels, Berlin, and Frankfurt to culturally examine how France and Germany are united in their many layers of diversity along ethnic and religious lines, and questions of gender and sexual orientation. Readings and screenings of culturally significant texts along with onsite visits and discussions will help students understand and identify the diversity of the EU's two most influential countries.
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