Courses

This course focuses on assessment as an integral dimension of teaching and
learning. Our goals are to examine the role of assessment in designing and implementing IEPs for students with disabilities, and apply evidence-based assessment practices to address learning outcomes and enhance understanding for all students. This course encourages interns to examine the uncertainty that lies at the heart of teaching, and to identify practices that promote equitable
learning opportunities for all.

This module focuses on assessment. Topics include formal classroom assessment (for example, tests, writing assignments, & projects); informal classroom assessment (as carried out in classroom discussions, monitoring of small groups, one-on-one observations & discussions, & students’ self-assessment & peer assessment); grading; external standardized assessment. The module also includes preparation for the MAT program summative assessment

This culminating module focuses on a year-long participatory action research
(PAR) journey. PAR is characterized by a collaborative process of inquiry and action for change in response to organizational or community challenges. Interns engage in a cycle of inquiry that focuses on the process of designing, creating, implementing, and practice radical listening, and being mindful learners and leaders. Interns are encouraged to reflect on the process and how it helped them develop student leadership, advocacy and voice as leaders.

This culminating module focuses on participatory action research (PAR), which is one of the programmatic themes. PAR is characterized by a collaborative process of inquiry & action for change in response to organizational or community problems. Interns will learn how to design, create, implement, participate in, & present a PAR program of research focuses on a content area problem as well as learn how to keep the everyday world problematic, how to practice radical listening, & how to be a mindful learner.

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.

Teaching for understanding in each content area requires building students’ abilities to read & write in their discipline. Topics include differences in texts & purposes for reading & writing across disciplines; integrating literacy into lesson planning; specific methods to support literacy; developing academic language; & approaches for teaching students with diverse literacy skills & experiences. In cross-disciplinary & discipline-specific teams, students will gain skills in planning, implementing, and improving their reading & writing instruction.

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.

This Module focuses on developing curriculum that is meaningful and culturally relevant, and responds to the individualized needs and abilities of diverse learners. Topics include theories of learning and instruction, accommodations and modifications for individuals, techniques for improved student performance, and using technologies to promote meaningful instruction. Module explores using learning characteristics to develop content-rich lesson plans to challenge and engage all learners while building on learners’ previously acquired skills, abilities, and knowledge.

This module addresses characteristics and services for students with low-incidence disabilities, including significant intellectual disabilities, multiple disabilities, autism, and sensory disabilities. Our focus is on curriculum and instruction balancing access to grade-level content and inclusion with peers with 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.

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.

This course offers an in-depth journey into the mental processes that drive knowledge acquisition and understanding, examining how our minds encode, store, and retrieve information over time. Grounded firmly in cognitive science, the course emphasizes not only the theoretical underpinnings of human thought—such as memory structures, representation systems, and developmental trajectories—but also the practical ways in which these insights inform the creation of instructional media.

This course deepens the exploration begun in How Humans Learn I by examining the Learning Sciences’ theoretical lenses—constructivism, constructionism, socio-constructivism, situativity, and cultural-context frameworks—and applying them to analyze real-world learning environments. Through weekly readings, collaborative annotations, in-class activities, and a semester-long field observation project, students bridge theory and practice, developing skills to evaluate and design instructional settings across material, social, and cultural contexts.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.