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Emphasizes concepts such as reflective practice, student centered learning, and processes for transformative change. Applying a constructivist perspective, participants will learn how to become meaningful change agents in classrooms and educational settings.
EDCC 521 Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation (3 SH)
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Explores curriculum development through the design and delivery of instruction for student learning. Students will learn how to plan for instruction including daily and unit lesson planning, how to create learning objectives, enabling activities and tasks, and how to develop formative and summative assessments.
EDCI 501 Curriculum and Instructional Strategies (3 SH)
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Partnerships between schools and community stakeholders play a vital role in fostering resilience in educational environments. This course serves as a forum for engaging dialogue among educators, counselors, law enforcement personnel, social service agents, and other community service workers regarding trauma and resilience. Participants will examine current trends and program development models that empower collaboration within communities.
EDDA 511 Teaching Diverse Learners (3 SH)
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EDLA 501 Foundations of Literacy (3 SH)
Examines the psychological, social, cultural and linguistic components of the developmental processes of reading and writing. The focus of the course is to develop an understanding of how children learn to read; to understand the spelling system of English orthography and how that influences word knowledge in reading and writing; to acquire an ability to select materials appropriate to the child's developmental stage and to explore what teachers can do to provide appropriate instruction. Appropriate instruction is based on the findings of the National Reading Panel and feature research and its implications in phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, comprehension and vocabulary.
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