Courses

This course introduces fundamentals of curriculum planning and development for a specific set of learners. Focus will be on creating content-rich curricula that provide culturally relevant learning experiences for students with disabilities and enable them to connect meaningfully to other content areas and experiences outside the classroom. The focus on development of curricula that meet content area standards will address students’ varied learning needs; providing individualized instruction (including use of IEPs in the classroom).

• Department: Teaching and Learning

This course introduces residents to the lesson planning process with an emphasis on establishing goals for the lesson, designing effective, accessible, and inclusive lesson plans, and implementing informative assessments of students' learning and understanding. In grappling with the core question of this course, “How do I design and assess learning for all students?,” residents are encouraged to consider an uncertainty that lies at the heart of teaching and to reconsider traditional resolutions. The skills and perspectives residents acquire in developing authentic, engaging, inclusive methods to assess learning outcomes for all students also influence planning, teaching, reflection-on-teaching, re-teaching, and other professional activities such as communicating with colleagues, students, and families.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

Expands your knowledge of how to teach students to comprehend texts, with specific focus on knowledge-building, vocabulary, and writing. Examines how students grow into independent readers and writers able to navigate complex texts and academic language. Focus on strategies to support their abilities to express themselves in writing and communicate in today’s digital world and on why students struggle with reading comprehension and how to provide effective support. Literacy is explored as a cross-disciplinary tool for thinking, learning and doing.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

Reading and writing are central to understanding in every content area, so supporting literacy development is essential to effective teaching. In particular, teaching for understanding in each content area requires building students’ abilities to read and write in the ways that are unique to that discipline, such as reading historical documents like a historian, writing about an experiment like a scientist, reading to analyze literature, or writing to explain mathematical thinking. At the same time, supporting all students to learn rich content requires providing access to disciplinary reading and writing for students who enter our classrooms with a wide range of literacy skills and experiences.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

In this course, residents learn how to design experiences that help all learners to engage in science as a process of figuring out natural phenomena. Science is not a series of facts to be memorized, but rather a process of learning about the natural world. Residents in this course explore teaching learners to engage in the scientific process, including how to center lessons around natural phenomena and engage
learners in practices of science such as questioning, investigating, analyzing data, and constructing explanations.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

This course covers the characteristics and services for students with low-incidence disabilities, including significant intellectual disabilities, multiple disabilities, autism spectrum disorders, and sensory disabilities. Our focus is on curriculum and instruction that balances 1. Access to grade-level content and inclusion with peers with 2. Individualized content that supports functional skills. Instructional methods in varied learning environments including home, school, and community-based settings, related services, and assistive technology are central to course content.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

Course takes place during the Residency I requirement of the Online Ed.D. Program. The course explores various learning theories such as adult learning, workplace learning, and K- 12 learning development. Industry guest speakers will share their expertise throughout the course to provide current perspectives on the field.

• Department: Administration, Leadership, and Technology

This course is a how-to manual for students who are interested in fashion, but don’t know how to explore it. It offers a toolbox of theoretical concepts, interdisciplinary scholarship, and historical and contemporary case studies. Students learn to ask questions like: How is taste mapped onto bodies in social space? Who works in fashion, and how is this work classified? How do images and clothes (both new and old) circulate around the globe? What does the science of sustainability look like? And, where is the body in fashion’s new digital imaginaries? Meets Steinhardt Lib Arts Core for Expressive Cultures

• Department: Art and Art Professions

Structure and function of the skeletal, muscular, nervous and circulatory systems. The course is given in lecture format and enhanced with models, slides, handouts, and videotapes.

• Department: Occupational Therapy

Structure and function of the skeletal, muscular, nervous and circulatory systems. The course is given in lecture format and enhanced with models, slides, handouts, and videotapes.

• Department: Occupational Therapy

Follows and complements the lecture material presented in the Fall semester. Students dissect human cadavers for the purpose of learning the skeletal, muscular, nervous, and circulatory systems.

• Department: Occupational Therapy

This is a basic anatomy lab course for occupational therapy clinical doctorate students. It will facilitate the study of anatomy through the dissection of human cadavers and examination of the skeletal, muscular, and nervous systems. The relationship between structure and function will be stressed as well as integration of these and other body systems during typical and atypical function.

• Department: Occupational Therapy

Follows and complements the lecture material presented in the fall semester. Students dissect human cadavers for the purpose of learning the skeletal, muscular, nervous, and circulatory systems.

• Department: Occupational Therapy

Explores the theory and practice of interdisciplinary teaching in the humanities, focusing primarily on integrating English and History - using novels, short stories, folklore, historical scholarship and primary sources. Involves designing thematic humanities unites that enable adolescents to develop an understanding of the relationship between literature and the historical eras in which it emerged. Explores the role of language and literacy in teaching and learning both disciplines and developing students writing skills. Considers the benefits and potential problems involved in trying to create and enact an integrated curriculum.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

This course introduces students to concepts of human development within the contexts and intersections of the visual and performing arts. Themes of interdisciplinarity, creativity, imagination, identity, social justice, and culturally sustaining pedagogy frame and inform our investigations.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course surveys development from conception through middle childhood. Introduces universal design and curriculum planning; intellectual growth, personal and social adjustment; and development and education. Includes a field work component that introduces prospective teachers to the broad and diverse array of settings that educate children and youth in New York City. Successful completion of this course creates a record of the student's satisfaction of the New York State requirement of pre-student teaching field work.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

Introduction to research and theory of human development across the life span. Seminal theories & basic research of individual growth & development are analyzed & critiqued. Emphasis is on the range in human development with discussion of normative & non-normative development. Emphasis is also placed on the importance of understanding the influence of normative & non-normative contexts of development, including the impact of culture, heritage, socioeconomic level, personal health, & safety. Relations between home, school, & community and their impact on development are also explored via readings, lectures, discussions, & weekly observations in the field. Interrogation of implicit folk theories as a foundation for exploration of formal knowledge of human development.

• Department: Applied Psychology

Introduction to research and theory of human development across the life span. Seminal theories & basic research of individual growth & development are analyzed & critiqued. Emphasis is on the range in human development with discussion of normative & non-normative development. Emphasis is also placed on the importance of understanding the influence of normative & non-normative contexts of development, including the impact of culture, heritage, socioeconomic level, personal health, & safety. Relations between home, school, & community and their impact on development are also explored via readings, lectures, discussions, & weekly observations in the field. Interrogation of implicit folk theories as a foundation for exploration of formal knowledge of human development.

Further analysis of research findings & theories of human development focusing on early through late adolescence & applied across various institutional contexts. Important issues include puberty, cross-gender peer relations, preventing risky behaviors, understanding & mastering test-based graduation requirements, transition to work/college, identity development, depression, & aggression. Developmentally appropriate consideration of abusive & dangerous environments & of alcohol, tobacco, & drug use is also included. Direct application of theory & research is made through field-based inquiry & issue-based investigation.

Further analysis of research findings & theories of human development focusing on childhood, & applied across various institutional contexts. Important issues include: numeric competence, assessment of reading problems, gender differences in learning styles. Developmentally appropriate consideration of abusive & dangerous environments, & of alcohol, tobacco, & drug use will also be included. Direct application of theory & research is made through field-based inquiry & issue-based investigation.

• Department: Applied Psychology