Courses

Mathematical foundations & concept development for children in elementary school grades. An examination of what constitutes a rich mathematical environment that fosters exploration, discovery, & understanding for beginning learners of mathematics will be the focus.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

This course investigates the connections between the surrounding cultural context and the EWL classroom. Applying their knowledge of those cultural-linguistic links, students learn how to develop curricula and lessons for a wide variety of international EWL contexts.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

Focuses on the social, political, cultural, and sociolinguistic issues related to teaching adolescents in urban schools. Explores how issues of race, class, ethnicity, and priviledge affect learning and instruction. Topics include: multicultural literature, linguistic diversity, and issues surrounding high-stakes testing.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

This course focuses on examining a research-driven approach to pedagogy utilizing the principles of adult learning theory and best practices related to teaching and learning in the health professions. The course will allow for the development and improvement of the students’ instructionalskills from both a theoretical and practice-based understanding of excellence in teaching. All educational topics are considered through the lens of teaching as a scholarly practice as students develop a teaching portfolio that encompasses their teaching philosophy and practices.

• Department: Occupational Therapy

A practical examination of specific teaching problems and practices as they relate to actual classroom teaching. Class sessions are based on student teaching experiences.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

What counts as literacy? Who decides? How is language used to make meaning in various disciplines? This course explores the fundamental role of language and literacy practices in learning in today’s linguistically and culturally diverse
classrooms, with a particular focus on the middle and high school levels. Students learn how language and literacy are related, and how they vary in different contexts, and apply this understanding to conceptualize, design, analyze, and refine literacy instruction in their chosen content area.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

This course will introduce participants to ways of using drama to develop literacy skills. The twelve-hour intensive will involve both theoretical and practical drama work designed to enhance a range of work in the language arts classroom. Students will be required to complete a written assignment.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course complements the content Mathamatical Proof and Proving course and provides pedagogical aspects of teaching and learning mathematical proof and proving. The focus is on: 1. Students' difficulties in interpreting the meaning of mathematical; 2. Students' understandings of the roles of examples in determining the validity of mathematical statements; 3. The teaching of various forms and methods of mathematical proofs and bridging between informal and formal proof. Special attention is given to developing students' language precision in mathematics and its implications for teaching, in the course of writing and presenting proofs.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

This course introduces students to music teaching and learning, focusing on curricular strategies and models that foster creativity and problem solving in the elementary music classroom setting. Themes of constructivism, interdisciplinarity, and culturally responsive teaching will inform our work together. Format will includes a combination of discussion, workshop activities, reading, student presentation, and performance.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course introduces students to music teaching and learning, focusing on curricular strategies and models that foster creativity and problem solving in the elementary music classroom setting. Themes of constructivism, interdisciplinarity, and culturally responsive teaching will inform our work together. Format will includes a combination of discussion, workshop activities, reading, student presentation, and performance.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Music in the general curriculum. Developing an understanding and perception of the process of musical thought appplicable to youth. Students observe in selected schools.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Music in the general curriculum. Developing an understanding and perception of the process of musical thought applicable to youth. Students observe in selected schools.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course provides a link between teachers' mathematical knowledge & understanding of the major skills & concepts of algebra to the effective & appropriate teaching of these topics in grades 7 through 12.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

This course provides a link between teachers' mathematical knowledge & understanding of the major skills & concepts of algebra & trigonometry to the effective & appropriate teaching of these topics in grades 7 through 12.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

Course is designed to introduce students to the pedagogical approaches & practices associated with teaching computer science at the secondary level. Students will learn methods of teaching secondary CS, but also to become practitioner researchers, taking an evidence-based, questioning, design oriented, analytical, & reflective lens on their teaching practices. Topics include developing learning objectives, theories of learning in CS & computational thinking, instructional approaches, lesson design & implementation, & assessment.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

Course is designed to introduce students to the pedagogical approaches & practices associated with teaching computer science at the secondary level. Students will learn methods of teaching secondary CS, but also to become practitioner researchers, taking an evidence-based, questioning, design oriented, analytical, & reflective lens on their teaching practices. Topics include developing learning objectives, theories of learning in CS & computational thinking, instructional approaches, lesson design & implementation, & assessment.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

This course provides a link between teachers' mathematical knowledge and understanding of the major skills and concepts of pre-calculus mathematics to the effective and appropriate teaching of these topics in grades 7 through 12.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

This course provides a link between teachers' mathematical knowledge and understanding of the major skills and concepts of ratios, proportions, percents, decimals and fractions to the effective and appropriate teaching of these topics in grades 5-12.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

Developing the skills of classroom planning, management, & implementation for effective instructional practices in grades 7-12. Topics include lesson plan development & implementation, different models of teaching, assessing student understanding & the use of instructional technology. Students also visit schools, observe teachers in the classroom & use these observations as the basis for discussions of effective teaching practice. Allows students enrolled in certification programs to accumulate required pre-student teaching fieldwork hours.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

Developing the skills of classroom planning, management, & implementation for effective instructional practices in grades 7-12. Topics include lesson plan development & implementation, different models of teaching, assessing student understanding & the use of instructional technology. Students also visit schools, observe teachers in the classroom & use these observations as the basis for discussions of effective teaching practice. Allows students enrolled in certification programs to accumulate required pre-student teaching fieldwork hours.

• Department: Teaching and Learning