Provides opportunities for students to collaborate in the completion of a teacher research project, revise the curriculum development project, finalize the professional portfolio, prepare for and take the comprehensive examination.
Prerequisites: EDFE 125 and 3.00 GPA required. This practicum immerses students in the elementary school classroom. Opportunities for teacher candidates to inquire, analyze and reflect on classroom routines and practices.
A review and analysis of competing conceptualizations of the elementary-school curriculum. Teachers develop, implement, and evaluate curriculum in elementary classrooms. Current topics, trends and issues in curriculum are explored.
Theory, design, development, implementation and evaluation of integrated curriculum. Students develop interdisciplinary units of study and learn active learning strategies and techniques consistent with an effective rationale for integrated curriculum.
Assists student in recognizing need for creating processes that enable children, educators and others to support and design a culturally and socially diverse curriculum.
Consider in detail the problems concerned with selection of what to teach, grade placement of content, methods and materials for teaching and means of evaluating achievement in mathematics.
Individualized investigation under the direct supervision of a faculty member. (Minimum of 37.5 clock hours required per credit hour.) Repeatable, maximum concurrent enrollment is two times.
Teachers develop their abilities as readers, writers and thinkers as they examine current research and practice in language arts and literacy instruction.
Prerequisite: EDEL 640 and teaching experience. A consideration of problems, trends, and issues in the assessment of language arts and literacy. Focus on reading and writing as integrated processes.
Designed for experienced teachers, course focuses on strategies for improving social studies curriculum and instructions. Studies trends, issues and research affecting educating children for citizenship in a pluralistic/democratic society.