Elementary Education
- ELE ED 3338Tch El Lit: Assessmnt & LrningPrerequisites: Completion of Level I requirements. This course explores literacy achievement and assessment to guide developmentally appropriate instruction, including consideration of elementary students' cultural and linguistic backgrounds as well as special education services received. Assessment practices explored include running records, informal reading inventories, orthographic inventories, and analytic writing assessment. Teacher candidates will utilize assessment findings, children's literature, and global technologies to create purposeful, targeted literacy instruction for students.
- ELE ED 3339Teaching El Lit: Inst & LrningPrerequisites: Completion of Level II requirements and ELE ED 3338. This course continues to explore developmentally appropriate literacy instruction for elementary students through deep exploration of methods of teaching reading and writing, including reading and writing workshops, guided reading, and word work / phonics. Particular attention will be paid to how these instructional methods might be adapted based upon students' cultural and linguistic backgrounds as well as special education services received. Teacher candidates will utilize a variety of assessments, children's literature, and global technologies to create a series of purposeful, targeted literacy lessons that reflect students evolving abilities over time.
- ELE ED 4246Tchg Ele Math in Incl Set IPrerequisites: Completion of mathematics requirements in General Education. This course explores pedagogical techniques and best practices for the creation and delivery of elementary mathematics curriculum to all students, including consideration of elementary students' cultural and linguistic backgrounds as well as special education services received. The mathematical content includes number and operations in base ten, fractions, decimals, percents, and proportional reasoning. Additional field experience may be required.
- ELE ED 4253Tchg Ele Soc Sci in Incl SetPrerequisites: Admission to Teacher Education Program and completion of social science requirements in general education. This course explores the teaching of current social studies curricular content in elementary settings. Topics include US history, geography, civics and government, economics, culture, and technology, and the appropriate teaching methods and development of related instructional materials. Particular attention will be paid to how these topics and strategies might be adapted based upon students' cultural and linguistic backgrounds as well as special education services received. Ten (10) clinical hours required to complete course assignments.
- ELE ED 4341Tchg Science Elem SchoolPrerequisite: Admission into Teacher Education Program required. An analysis of teaching science to K-6 students with emphasis on current science education trends, science curricular materials, and strategies of instruction.
- ELE ED 4342Tching Ele Math in Incl Set IIPrerequisite: ELE ED 4246. This course explores pedagogical techniques and best practices for the creation and delivery of elementary mathematics curriculum to all students, including consideration of elementary students' cultural and linguistic backgrounds as well as special education services received. The mathematical content of this course includes geometry, measurement, probability, statistics, and data analysis. Additional field experience may be required.
- ELE ED 4989Pract I: Ele/Sp Ed Site Bsd ExPrerequisites: Accepted Practicum I application. This course is a two-day per week intensive, collaborative professional experience in inclusive K-12 settings with emphasis in elementary classrooms. This course emphasizes improving student learning outcomes, data-driven instruction, classroom management, and video use and analysis. Practicum I includes mandatory on-site and on-campus seminars which could be scheduled outside of normal class time. Students are required to take the appropriate DESE-mandated content exam during Practicum I.
- ELE ED 4990Practm II:Ele/Sp Ed Ste Bsd ExPrerequisites: Successful completion of Practicum I. This course is a four-day per week intensive, collaborative professional experience in inclusive K-12 settings with emphasis in elementary classrooms. This course emphasizes improving student learning outcomes, data-driven instruction, classroom management, and video use and analysis. Practicum II includes mandatory on-site and on-campus seminars which could be scheduled outside of normal class time. Students are required to take the appropriate DESE-mandated content exam during Practicum II.
- ELE ED 4994Practm I:Ele Ed/TESOL Site BsdPrerequisites: Accepted Practicum application. This course is a two-day per week intensive, collaborative professional experience in inclusive K-12 settings with emphasis in elementary classrooms. This course emphasizes improving student learning outcomes, data-driven instruction, classroom management, and video use and analysis. Particular emphasis will be given to differentiated instruction and impacting student achievement for diverse populations. Practicum I includes mandatory on-site and on-campus seminars which could be scheduled outside of normal class time. Students are required to take the appropriate DESE-mandated content exam during Practicum I.
- ELE ED 4995Practm II:Ele/TESOL Ste Bsd ExPrerequisites: Successful completion of Practicum I requirements. This course is a four-day per week intensive, collaborative professional experience in inclusive K-12 settings with emphasis in elementary classrooms. This course emphasizes improving student learning outcomes, data-driven instruction, classroom management, and video use and analysis. Particular emphasis will be given to differentiated instruction and impacting student achievement for diverse populations. Practicum II includes mandatory on-site and on-campus seminars which could be scheduled outside of normal class time. Students are required to take the appropriate DESE-mandated content exam during Practicum II.
- ELE ED 5989Prac I: Ele/Spec Ed Site ExpPrerequisites: Director of Clinical Experience approval. This course is a 2 day per week intensive professional development experience working in K-12 settings with students with emphasis in inclusive elementary classrooms. On-site activities include partnering with the classroom teacher in all areas of instruction, assessment, and classroom management. Some methods course assignments may be completed during the practicum day at school sites. Activities to acquire research skills are included.
- ELE ED 5990Prac II: Ele/Spec Ed Ste ExpPrerequisites: Successful completion of Practicum I and Director of Clinical Experience approval. This course is a clinical teaching experience 4 days per week in inclusive elementary settings. Teacher candidates spend time in schools engaged in various capacities to improve student learning within small group instruction, whole class teaching, lesson planning and special programs to demonstrate proficiency on all professional teacher standards. Teacher candidates collect data for a research project.
- ELE ED 6387Lit&Learn for Diverse StudentPrerequisites: Graduate standing. This course extends candidate understanding of students' literacy acquisition, development, and learning across the K-12 learning continuum. Emphasis is on development of a teaching philosophy and skills which include maintaining effective literacy learning environments in diverse classrooms, fostering culturally and linguistically responsive classroom communities, understanding social and environmental issues that affect the literacy learning of diverse learners, connecting with students' family and community language and literacy practices, using effective methods and materials to develop engaged and literate students, and fostering students' engagement in literacy activities.
- ELE ED 6448Disabilities in Learning MathPrerequisites: Graduate standing. This course explores the materials and techniques used in diagnosis and correction of mathematical disabilities in K-12 educational settings.
- ELE ED 6482Prob Resrch Tchg Elem SchoolPrerequisites: Graduate standing. This is the capstone course for the Masters of Education in Reading and is taken in the last 9 hours of the master's program. The three foci for this course are (1) systematic study of research as it focuses on the problems of teaching literacy in K-12 classrooms, (2) innovations in the field, and (3) action research. Candidates design and complete an action research project related to literacy.
- ELE ED 6494Rdg Specialist Practicum IIPrerequisites: ELE ED 6493. This course is an application of evidence-based literacy instruction in a supervised setting. The emphasis is on using appropriate print and digital materials and providing effective instructional techniques to address K-12 students' assessed literacy strengths, needs, and interests with the goal of improving their literacy abilities and attitudes. Family and community knowledge and practices will be integrated into literacy sessions in ways that enhance literacy learning. The focus is on the roles of the literacy specialist and leader in a range of settings, including online.