Course Descriptions EDGR 625 Teaching and Instructional Technology Applications (3 credits) This second-level course intensifies the effort to determine the best processes for integrating varying forms of instructional technology into different disciplines and environments on behalf of students. EDGR 630 Dimensions of Assessment and Evaluation (3 credits) How are assessment and evaluation part of the learning process? What works in assessment? Participants in this course examine assessment and evaluation approaches and give special attention to developing products, such as assessment portfolios. EDGR 635 Applications in Assessment and Evaluation (3 credits) Students apply forms of assessment and evaluation learned in the first-level course to their own classrooms, school buildings or education systems. EDGR 640 Dimensions of Leadership and Organization (3 credits) Are teachers leaders? How has the role of the school administrator evolved? Students in this class examine the body of leadership research within the context of educational organizations and explore the relationship between leadership style and educational leadership. EDGR 645 Challenges in Leadership (3 credits) How can educators use their leadership styles on behalf of their students? This course provides an in-depth exploration of the processes of maximizing educators’ skills to effect positive change in classrooms or other educational settings. EDGR 650 Dimensions of Learning and Development (3 credits) Learning is the process of constructing meaningful connections. Class participants explore and apply theories of learning and human development in the context of educational settings. EDGR 655 Learning and Development Applications (3 credits) Though we know the developmental stages of the children with whom we work and the adults with whom we interact, how do we maximize those efforts in “real life”? This class explores in-depth the processes involved in interactions with children and adults in order to ensure progressive change. EDGR 690 Capstone Seminar (1 credit) This seminar is taken in the final stage of the program. It provides an opportunity for students to celebrate the professional milestones that they have achieved as they complete the Master of Education program. This also is the occasion for extending and celebrating professional growth by sharing key insights or research results from the practicum with the professional community.
Education (All DEV, EDU, RDG and SPED courses may require students to complete off-campus field experience.) EDU 501 Methods of Teaching Reading (3 credits) This course is an overview of reading and writing processes. The course addresses current trends for teaching literacy including basal programs, whole language, language experience, thematic teaching, literature-based instruction, and technology-based instruction. Students will learn about the components of balanced literacy instruction that includes word attack, word identification, vocabulary development, fluency, comprehension and writing. EDU 503 Methods of Teaching Elementary Mathematics (3 credits) This course focuses on the concepts of mathematics that are taught in grades K-6 and the current methods of teaching that content, including experience with manipulative materials. Prerequisite: Acceptance into TCP. EDU 506 Teaching English Learners (3 credits) In this course students will study the history, pedagogy, and techniques for specific ESL/EFL methods and approaches used to teach in culturally diverse classrooms. The course intends to equip mainstream classroom teachers with background, understanding and introduction to other methods. The course will include clarification of issues such as the differences between bilingual instruction and teaching English learners in the classroom. The course will enable teachers to learn how to modify content and scaffold learning for ELs. EDU 511 Methods of Teaching in Secondary Schools (3 credits) This course teaches students how to develop effective strategies and lesson plans for delivering content knowledge consistent with standards based learning. Using each student’s primary content area as the context, this course investigates developmentally appropriate teaching and classroom management for adolescent learners. Strategies and delivery methods include constructivism, differentiation, peer group learning, cross-curricular lesson planning and writing across the curriculum. Prerequisite: Acceptance into TCP. EDU 520 The Educator Researcher (3 credits) This course provides an introduction to methods of educational research. These methods encourage educators to be action researchers in their own classrooms, school districts, or communities in order to improve teaching and learning practices. Students will become familiar with purposeful quantitative and qualitative research design in order to develop an increased understanding of the issues, both theoretical and practical, that arise through the research process. An emphasis will be placed on understanding, interpreting, and critiquing educational research and developing resaerch proposals.
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