Provides pre-service elementary teachers with theoretical foundations and practical skills necessary to become reflective professionals who can design and implement effective writing instruction for their students while development their own skills in writing.

Prerequisites: 2.75 GPA, EDFE 110. Theory and practice in teaching reading and language arts in pre-kindergarten through grade three. Instructional strategies and learning environments that nurture emergent literacy, practical methods of assessment. 30 hours of field experience.  May only be repeated 1 time.

Majors only (Urban Education). Prerequisites: 2.75 GPA, EDFE 110. Study of theory and practice, instructional strategies and learning environments in teaching reading and language arts in pre-kindergarten through grade three.

Prerequisite: EDFE 110, 2.75 GPA required. Elementary teacher candidates will learn strategies and assessment techniques for instructing students in literacy at designated schools. Successful completion is required for teacher candidates prior to enrollment in Block I.

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.

Prerequisites: EDFE 120 and EDFE 130. EDEL 470 is taken concurrently with EDEL 444. A field experience that includes eleven weeks of continuous field experiences with supervision by university and school faculty and integrated seminars. S/U graded.

Prerequisites: 3.0 GPA, EDEL 350 or EDEL 360, EDFE 120 or EDFE 125. Co-requisite: EDEL 446. Course integrates methods of reading and reading diagnosis along with language arts in the Intermediate grades (3-6). Students learn instructional techniques, activities, assessment, and content knowledge.

Prerequisite: 3.0 GPA, EDFE 120 or EDFE 125. Corequisite: EDEL 445. Field-based learning practicum in partnership schools under the supervision and coordination of university faculty and partner school personnel for 16 weeks.  May only be repeated 1 time.

Prerequisites: 3.0 GPA, EDFE 110, EDEL 350 or EDEL 360 and MATH 283. Teacher candidates acquire specific subject matter content while learning how to design and engage in classroom practices related to mathematics and social studies education in elementary school classrooms.

Prerequisites: 3.0 GPA, EDFE 130. Co-requisite: EDEL 454 and ET 347. An in depth consideration of issues, problems and practices in the elementary-school social studies and mathematics classroom. Developing implementing and evaluation an integrated instructional unit following the teacher work sample methodology. Online.

Prerequisites: 3.0 GPA, EDFE 130, B or better in EDEL 445 and EDEL 450. Co-requisite: EDEL 453. Fifteen weeks of field-based experience in an elementary classroom under the supervision and coordination of university faculty and cooperating school personnel.  May only be repeated 1 time.

Majors only (Urban Education). Students will learn how to conduct Project WILD activities, explore ways to integrate this resource into school curricula, and participate in activities to become comfortable and knowledgeable to teach science.

Majors only (Urban Education). Prerequisite: EDEL 461. Students will design a lesson plan, distinguish between science lessons and thematic units, and create assessment tools applicable to their needs. They will learn how to do Project WILD activities.

Majors only (Urban Education). Prerequisites: EDEL 461, EDEL 462. Students will apply the Learning Cycle to lesson planning, and construct thematic units taking advantage of interdisciplinary planning, teaming, "hands-on, minds-on" activities and assessment instruments.

Majors only (Urban Education). Must take concurrently with ENG 122. Develops an understanding of children’s growth in the writing process, and examines recording, assessing and reporting student progress. Students will participate in a field-related apprenticeship.

Majors only (Urban Education). Must take concurrently with ENG 131.This course emphasizes the writing process. Students will develop an understanding of children's growth in the writing process and examine recording, assessing and reporting student progress. Field-related apprenticeship required.

Majors only (Urban Education). Learn strategies related to emergent literacy, word knowledge, recognition, and analysis, and the ability to flexibly combine these strategies with the broader purpose of reading for meaning. Tutoring component required.

Majors only (Urban Education). Prerequisite: EDEL 466. Examines reading difficulties, diagnosis and individualization; experience using formal/informal standards-based assessment. Explores literacy assessment; requires demonstrated ability to use performance-based assessment in literacy instruction. Tutoring component required.

Majors only (Urban Education). Develops sensitivity to the affective and cognitive needs of elementary students in reading and writing to learn in the content areas. Students will participate in field related apprenticeships.

Majors only (Urban Education). Students will learn curriculum, course planning, teaching strategies, materials, and assessment, with examples of successful pedagogical approaches for teaching standards-based geography concepts.

Majors only (Urban Education). Students will learn curriculum, course planning, teaching strategies, materials, and assessment with examples of successful pedagogical approaches for teaching standards-based concepts.

Majors only (Urban Education). Students will learn curriculum, course planning, teaching strategies, materials, and assessment with examples of successful pedagogical approaches for teaching standards-based economics and citizenship education concepts.

Majors only (Urban Education). Must take concurrently with MATH 181 and MATH 182. Focus on a small, integrated unit involving children’s literature, social studies and math. Number sense, use of hands-on materials and problem solving to construct understanding in math are emphasized.

Majors only (Urban Education). Prerequisite: EDEL 474. Focuses on problem solving emphasizing real world application and the use of technology. Colorado Model Standards for Mathematics and Performance-Based Standards for Colorado Teachers will be applied.

Majors only (Urban Education). Prerequisites: EDEL 474, EDEL 475. Focus on assessment, continuing development of lesson plans based on authentic problem solving and integration with other content areas. Colorado Model Standards for Mathematics will be applied.

Majors only (Urban Education). Students learn instructional techniques, activities and content knowledge appropriate for the teaching of art in the elementary school setting. Integration with other content areas is emphasized.

Majors only (Urban Education). Elements of music, benefits of music study, practice in reading nontraditional music notation, making/playing musical instruments, movement, listening, beginning improvisation and composition, multicultural resources, and music technology.

Majors only (Urban Education). Study effective teaching and learning theories, basic movement principles and activities included in a quality program of physical education in the elementary school. Integration with content areas is emphasized when appropriate.