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• ELEM 5810: Elem Curriculum/instr/Assess

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course is designed to provide teacher candidates with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to create developmentally appropriate and responsive instruction and assessment for learners in K - 4 classrooms. Topics covered include K through grade 4 curriculum models, developmentally appropriate practices, lesson planning, writing objectives, instructional strategies, and assessment of student learning. Through various teaching and learning methodologies, the teacher candidates will learn how to plan for and utilize strategies based on evidence-based research, Pennsylvania Department of Education Learning Standards and standards set forth by the National Association for the Education of Young Children.
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• ELEM 5830: Early Language and Literacy

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This online course provides teachers with the opportunity to review recent research and theory concerning literacy development. The study of different areas of literacy development, specifically oral language, writing and reading, are encompassed in the course. The theory and research is translated into practical strategies, assessment materials and preparation of rich literacy environments. The course provides teachers with an effort to reflect upon current issues in early literacy, specifically early intervention programs to assist struggling readers, language and diversity, teaching skills in developmentally appropriate settings, organization and management of literacy programs, and family literacy partnerships.
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• ELEM 5840: Elem ELA Instruction/Assess

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course examines the development of literacy and assessment practices in Pre-K to grade 4. Candidates are taught how to teach and assess reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills with an emphasis on developmentally appropriate practices particularly in the area of language arts, and through the use of an integrated/balanced approach consistent with the constructivist theory of teaching and learning. Research based effective practices and theories to literacy instruction and assessment are introduced, analyzed, and evaluated.
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• ELEM 5850: Teach and Assess Math

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course will allow students to develop the understanding, knowledge, and skills necessary to teach mathematics to young children. Students will become proficient in the problem-solving process and will come to understand mathematical reasoning in order to teach problem-solving and mathematical reasoning to young children. Lastly, students will plan, implement, and reflect on standards-based mathematics lessons which will be taught to young children in a local elementary school.
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• ELEM 5860: Teach and Assess Science

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course provides teacher candidates at the graduate level opportunities to acquire the science education knowledge, skills and dispositions expected of beginning early childhood teachers in self-contained classrooms. The course provides an overview of the nature of science, scientific inquiry and focuses on science process skill teaching strategies. Candidates learn and practice science teaching skills such as: creating a classroom environment conducive to scientific inquiry, designing science instruction, assessing student attainment of academic standards, and using the local community as a location and topic of classroom science instruction. The course assignments introduce students to the professional community of science education professionals and resources. Teacher candidates participate in university classroom and field experiences that provide them with the knowledge, pedagogy, and dispositions needed to teach in a variety of educational contexts.
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• ELEM 5870: Teach and Assess Soc Studies

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  The foundations of the social studies are critiqued. Instructional strategies, best practices and resources for the constructivist social studies classroom will be researched, discussed and demonstrated. Attention will be given to current trends, use of technology in the curriculum, literacy instruction in social studies, and the present status of social studies in the pre K-4 classroom.
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• ELEM 5880: Elem Clinical Experience

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course is designed to provide students with a field experience in an elementary classroom for a minimum of 45 hours. Students will function as teacher's aides and develop and teach five lesson plans. Prerequisite: ELEM 5810
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• ENGL 1100: Intro to College Composition

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  Offers practice for students in exploring the processes of composition in various genres. Introduces composing strategies with an emphasis on developing and structuring ideas for specific audiences and purposes, recognizing and editing grammatical and mechanical errors, providing constructive peer feedback, and revising.
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• ENGL 1200: College Composition

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  Emphasizes the practice and process of composition with a focus on research, inquiry, and exploration of the genres of argument, analysis, and narrative. Offers the strategies, structures, and conventions for composing in a variety of modalities and provides foundational skills for evaluating, summarizing, and synthesizing academic sources.
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• ENGL 1300: Introduction to Literature

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course provides an overview of three major literary forms (drama, poetry, and prose fiction) with particular emphasis on their fundamental formal elements and conventions. Readings illustrate these elements and conventions, as well as afford students the opportunity to discuss, appreciate, analyze and write about literature.
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