Bulletin Year: 2023 - 2024 Undergraduate Bulletin

Courses

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ED 445 Practicum in the Middle School 2 cr.
  • Offered: On demand
  • Graded: S/U/P
  • Prerequisites: Student teaching experience.
A 60 clock-hour experience in assisting, observing, directed teaching and tutoring in skill development laboratories and participating in team planning sessions in a middle-school setting.
ED 450 Seminar in Teaching 1 cr.
  • Offered: Fall Winter
  • Co-requisites: Concurrent enrollment in student teaching.
This course is designed to help the student teacher better understand and apply education principles and theories in full-time classroom teaching experience. It focuses on the roles, responsibilities, issues and concerns of student teachers such as classroom management, instruction, assessment, multicultural education, human relations, employment, policy and practices.
ED 451 Seminar in Classroom Management 1 cr.
  • Offered: On demand
  • Graded: S/U
  • Prerequisites: Current enrollment in ED 450, or with permission of the School of Education.

This seminar explores a variety of techniques and methods to effectively manage behavior in the classroom to decrease disruptions and increase instructional time. It focuses on the roles, responsibilities, issues, and concerns of student teachers, teachers and school personnel as active managers of student behavior. Field experience is a required component.  

ED 452 Seminar in Multicultural Education 1 cr.
  • Offered: On demand
  • Graded: S/U
  • Prerequisites: Current enrollment in ED 450, or with permission of the School of Education.

This seminar will approach multicultural and global perspectives within current school settings including curricular design and planning; instructional design, practice and evaluation; and teachers’ and students’ knowledge, attitudes, and behavior. Field experience is a required component.  

ED 460 The Middle School 3 cr.
  • Offered: On demand
  • Prerequisites: Junior standing or instructor's permission.
Analysis of the philosophy, structure, curriculum, needs of students and strategies of teaching in the middle school.
ED 462 Literature for Young Adults 3 cr.
  • Offered: Fall semester of even-numbered years
  • Prerequisites: Junior standing or instructor's permission. Cross listed as EN 462.
A comprehensive study of books for young adults, designed for secondary school teachers. Needs and interests of adolescents are studied in conjunction with the application of selection principles to fiction and nonfiction of all types. Emphasis is placed on developmental reading for the accelerated, the average and the reluctant student.
ED 483 Educational Media Technology 2 cr.
  • Offered: Fall Winter
  • Prerequisites: Admission to the methods phase of teacher education.

Focuses upon the education/instructional uses of audiovisual media including computers and related technologies. Emphasis will be upon each type of hardware and software and its use as well as the subject-matter areas that most easily integrate the technology.

ED 490 Internship in Early Childhood Environments 2 cr.
  • Offered: On demand
  • Prerequisites: Acceptance into the student teaching phase or with permission from instructor and completion of the following courses: ED 233, ED 292, ED 293, ED 294, ED 393.

Designed to provide students with an in-depth experience working with children from birth to age 5 (before entering kindergarten). Students will gain experience in planning lessons, teaching, assessing children, conducting caregiver/teacher interactions and conferences, and participating in staff meetings.

ED 495 Special Topics in Education 1-4 cr.
  • Offered: On demand
  • Prerequisites: Junior standing and instructor's permission.
An opportunity for a group of upper division students to study problems in education that are not part of the regular offering.