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• ED 5230: Trauma Informed Teaching

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course will explore trauma within the classroom and provide a detailed description of the knowledge, skills, and dispositions compromising trauma-informed educator competencies. Using an interdisciplinary approach, students will develop a skill set to support the education and development of the whole-child, while preparing teachers and school leaders to recognize the signs of adolescent trauma in the classroom. Trauma-Informed knowledge invites changes to traditional and postmodern pedagogical practices, placing attunement (connecting) and mentoring (coaching) at the core of learning. Educators currently receive little professional development on how trauma impacts students and how to support the education of these students. To compound this, unaddressed student trauma is a major factor in teacher frustration, low job satisfaction, and burnout. The educational needs of these youth are complex, and this course will provide best-practices in trauma-informed care that assures educators that TIPS is based on sound research and is a universal design appropriate for all students.
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• ED 5240: Classroom Assessment for Learn

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  Assessment is an essential part of the learning triangle. Curriculum, instruction, and assessment are core elements in the learning process and are inextricably linked. In this course, students will actively review the basic concepts of data-driven assessment for learning, develop and share assessment strategies that are used to make instructional decisions in support of the standards and student learning in general. The course is designed to support learners as they explore the development of assessment strategies and reporting systems as well as assessment before, during, and after instruction.
  ShareED 5240 - Classroom Assessment for Learn

• ED 5310: Applied Educational Research

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course explains and facilitates action research to enable teacher - researchers to participate in their own inquiries; to gather, analyze, and report information; and to effect postive change. (Prerequisite: EDUC788)
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• ED 5320: Advanced Curriculum Theory

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course studies the leadership and processes required to align course content, academic standards, and assessments of elementary, middle, and secondary schools curricula. It emphasizes the changing nature of curriculum, the essential elements and processes of curriculum development, and the principal as the curriculum leader. Resources will include Pennsylvania's Standards Aligned System (SAS) and the research base underlying its six components.
  ShareED 5320 - Advanced Curriculum Theory

• ED 5330: Teacher Evaluation

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course provides the framework for collaborative leadership in order to enhance professional practice through school personnel evaluation. It emphasizes the linkage between evaluation and student achievement. The integration of evaluative tools, methods, and state requirements into the evaluation system is present.
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• ED 5360: Supervisory Internship

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course is designed to be the capstone experience of the Curriculum and Instruction program. The course provides experiences designed to develop and enhance the overall effectiveness of the supervisor candidate's competencies. The internship is designed as an integrating experience and an opportunity for the graduate to practice those skills.
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• ED 5410: Teacher Leadership

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course provides the framework for the skills for Teacher Leaders Endorsement. It focuses on leadership theory and skills through a problem-solving and applied methodology. Leaders must acquire the necessary leadership repertoire to lead effectively in today's schools. Offered fall and spring. Prerequisite: Program Admission
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• ED 5420: Peer Mentoring

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course highlights peer mentoring theory and skills. Teacher leaders will apply these theories and skills as they work with peers to support planning, instruction, and assessment. Leaders must acquire the necessary leadership repertoire to lead effectively in today's schools. Offered fall and spring.
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• ED 5430: Role of Change

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This educational leadership graduate course studies the principles, themes, and patterns for implementing educational change. Tools, techniques, and strategies for leading effective change are presented. The educational leader as change facilitator is emphasized.
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• ED 5440: Cultural and Political Entity

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course highlights the cultural and political entities. Embedded in the content is the focus on professional learning communities and working collaboratively with faculty as they address planning, instruction, assessment, student performance, student behavior and dispositions, data analysis, and action research. Prerequisite: Program Admission
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