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This course presents best practices based on current research for classroom and behavior management including, but not limited to, classroom procedures and expectations, organization of materials, and classroom space for optimum learner benefit. Instructional and behavioral management strategies for individual and large group classrooms for diverse populations will be explored. Using classroom observation, students will report, reflect, and evaluate management techniques and begin to consider their own management styles.
A course designed to help the preservice teacher develop a defensible rationale for making curricular and instructional decisions concerning the substance of instruction, techniques of instruction, and evaluation practices as unique to the teaching of elementary social studies and science. This course combines lecture and laboratory in which students will study science and social studies curricula, the planning and design of hands-on activities and materials, and teaching both content and process. Students will be required to conduct 5 hours of field experience (observation) in a specified science-based program.
This course is designed to equip pre-service teachers with the knowledge and skills to create, interpret, and use various types of classroom assessments. These skills will help teachers make more accurate inferences in regards to student attainment of curricular aims so that appropriate instructional decisions can be made.
Advanced Writing. Content Area Reading & Secondary Teaching Methods. This course considers instructional planning and methods, lesson presentation skills, and learning tools. Students study the development of listening, speaking, vocabulary, reading, and writing, and learn assessment and teaching strategies to improve study skills and literacy in content areas. A 45-hour field experience in a public school classroom is required.
Advanced Writing. Teaching the Communication Arts I. Students focus on the development, curriculum, instruction, and assessment of writing, speaking, listening, viewing, and thinking. Methods, materials, techniques, and strategies for teaching all of the communication arts are presented and discussed.
Diagnostic-Based Interventions in Literacy Instruction. This course addresses the following four topics: 1) formal and informal
assessments of students' reading interests, attitudes, and abilities; 2) proven reading strategies, methods and techniques (research-based); 3) assessment-driven instructional planning, and 4) methods of reporting students' literacy skills and recommendations for continued growth. Students are required to complete a clinical field experience (10 sessions) in a K-12 school setting.
Teaching the Communication Arts II. Methods, materials, techniques, and strategies for teaching reading will be presented. The students will study methods for developing emergent literacy skills, word identification, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and metacognition. One-third of this course is devoted to public school classroom work (45-hour field experience).
Arts & Letters-Literature. A study of literature written for young adults. Students will read, listen to and evaluate a wide variety of literature published for or enjoyed by young adult readers, including traditional folk tales, myths, and legends; fantasy and realistic fiction; biography and autobiography; and poetry. Students will also study techniques for teaching and using literature in the 5-12 classroom.
Special Topics courses include ad-hoc courses on various selected topics that are not part of the regular curriculum, however they may still fulfill certain curricular requirements. Special topics courses are offered at the discretion of each department and will be published as part of the semester course schedule - view available sections for more information. Questions about special topics classes can be directed to the instructor or department chair.