Tougaloo college catalog 2013 2015

Elementary Education will include field observation skills, first year teaching experiences, law and public policies, professional organizations, teaching career web sites, and preparing a teaching portfolio. CREDIT: THREE SEMESTER HOURS. EDE 102: EDUCATIONAL LEARNING ASSESSMENT. This course will provide student with the assessment techniques necessary to enhance learning for diverse student populations. The course will address the identification of learning goals and diagnosis of student needs, provision for effective instruction with feedback, and use of assessment results to improve teaching as well as learning. Students will participate in activities that will increase their understanding of assessment task development, analysis, and interpretation of results. This course will also emphasize documenting student performance and progress both for instructional and accountability.

Prerequisites or co-requisites: EDE 101 and EDE 104. CREDIT: THREE TO SIX SEMESTER HOURS. EDE 104: PRACTICUM IN OBSERVING YOUNG CHILDREN. This practicum is designed to give students the opportunity to observe and record a variety of settings appropriate to the education role for which they are planning. Prerequisite: EDE 102: CREDIT: THREE SEMESTER HOURS. ECD/EDE 210: PROGRAMS AND METHODS FOR YOUNG CHILDREN. This course is designed to examine appropriate teaching methods and materials for educational settings that serve children from age 3 to age 8. Attention is given to strategies for planning; organizing the learning environment; conducting lessons; guiding children’s behavior, supporting play; and addressing standards through integrated and emergent curriculum.

This course requires 10 hours of field based experience. Prerequisites: EDE 101. CREDIT: THREE SEMESTER HOURS. EDU 214: EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY. This course, is designed to focus on the study of human behavior from birth to death; cognitive, affective, and psychomotor learning processes; behavior modification, concept learning, problem solving and critical thinking skills. It also focuses on the principles of measurement and evaluation applied to the preparation and analysis of teacher made tests and standardized tests used in schools to measure intelligence, aptitude, achievement, interests and personality.

Additionally this course will cover the major theories and theorist’s of adolescent’s psychology; observation experiences are required. CREDIT: THREE SEMESTER HOURS. Page 115