EDU 8100 Advanced Classroom Management: Children as Change Agents (2) - Dr. Joseph Kaplan
This course is geared for professionals serving children and youths presenting behavior problems in the school or community. This course focuses on cognitive and cognitive-behavioral interventions with an emphasis on teaching students how to change and manage their own behavior. Since previous knowledge and understanding of traditional behavioral concepts and strategies is required, it is strongly recommended that you take an introductory behavior management course to learn the basic terms and concepts of behavior management prior to taking this “advanced” course.
EDU 8105 Violence in Schools: Identification, Prevention, and Intervention Strategies (2) - Dr. Michael Sedler
This course is designed to give you a better understanding of school violence and increase your intervention strategies. Taught by Dr. Michael Sedler, this course provides an over view of violence and the motivational purposes behind aggression. The correlation and impact of the media, community, and family upon violence is investigated. You will learn identification and intervention approaches to working with out-of-control behaviors. In addition, you will receive information about the national resources available for both parents and teachers. Upon successful completion of this course, you will have a better understanding of violence and the motivations behind the use of violence, as well as specific strategies to minimize the occurrence of violence in a school and community.
EDU 8115 Autism & Asperger’s Disorder: Information & Effective Intervention Strategies (2) - Dr. Marrea Winnega
This course describes Autism and Asperger’s Disorder, including characteristics of these disorders, associated learning styles, communication weaknesses, and various intervention strategies. The course helps you make sense out of why individuals with Autism spectrum disorders act the way they do, and what you can do to enhance more appropriate behavior. This course lists resources for educators, related service personnel, and parents who want more help or information on Autism and Asperger’s Disorder.
EDU 8135 Educational Assessment: Assessing Student Learning in the Classroom (2) - Dr. Pillay
This course is designed to further develop the conceptual and technical skills required by teachers to help them identify their educational goals, and implement meaningful instructional strategies for effective learning by students with special needs. The focus of this course will therefore be on assessment for instructional programming. The course will outline procedures for designing or selecting, administering and interpreting, a variety of informal assessment measures typically used in schools. The presentation of assessment information in an acceptable format to parents and teachers will also be addressed.
EDU 8150 Inclusion: Working with Special Needs Students in Mainstream Classrooms (2) - Dr. Luseno
This interactive course is designed to help special and general educators gain a better understanding of inclusion, one of the current educational reform movements that advocates educating students with disabilities in the general education classroom. Upon course completion, you will be able to define key concepts and terms, identify and describe federal legislature and course cases, and list and describe the federal definition of students entitled to special services. This course will also help you identify the roles and responsibilities of educators in providing special services to students educated in inclusive classrooms.
EDU 8155 Learning Disabilities: Practical Information for Classroom Teachers (3) - Dr. Pillay
This course describes diverse theoretical approaches to handling learning disabilities in the classroom. Taught by Dr. Bob Pillay, this course lays the foundation for sensitive, appropriate assessment and evaluation of students. In addition, this course covers program planning and implementation, stresses the importance of a close, positive partnership with parents or alternative caregivers, and explores methods for ensuring that the home-school axis is effective and meaningful. You will also learn about major trends and unresolved issues in the field of learning disabilities.
EDU 8165 Teaching Diversity: Influences and Issues in the Classroom (2) - Dr. Lea
This course is designed to give you the knowledge, tools, and dispositions to effectively facilitate a diverse classroom. This course will help you understand and identify differences in approaches to learning and performance, including different learning styles and ways in which students demonstrate learning. An emphasis in this course will be on understanding how students’ learning is influenced by individual experiences, talents, disabilities, gender, language, culture, family and community values. You will be challenged to apply knowledge of the richness of contributions from our diverse society to your teaching field.
EDU 8175 Understanding Aggression: Coping with Aggressive Behavior in the Classroom (2) - Dr. Sedler
Understanding Aggression includes topics on violence, aggression in the classroom, youth gangs, aggression in sports and on television, how drugs and alcohol play a role in aggression and violence, and “hot spots” that tend to breed aggression and violence. The course helps school personnel become more aware of the causes of aggression and ways to evaluate the aggression and intervene before the aggression turns to violence in the schools. The course also speaks about aggression in our communities through driving, dating, sports, television, music and how these issues are dealt with in modern society.
EDU 5927 Drugs and Alcohol in School: Understanding Substance Use & Abuse (2) - Prof. Casey Jackson (doctorate in 2008)
Take this course to gain a more comprehensive understanding of alcohol, drugs, and their influences in your classroom. This course provides a contextual framework for understanding what students may be experiencing either through their own substance use or from a substance use of persons close to them. Taught by Casey Jackson, this course provides a basic historical perspective of substance use along with the biological, psychological, and social factors that comprise the disease of addiction. Upon course completion, you will better understand the complex dynamics that contribute to this biological and social phenomenon.
EDU 5933 Talented and Gifted Education: Working with High Achievers (2) - Dr. Karen Lea
Talented and gifted education provides information on the history of the exceptional in relation to education, current law, and accepted methods for referral, assessment, and identification of these students. The course also covers major program models and methods of differentiating instruction to meet the rate and level of learning of those students identified. The course gives you an understanding of ways to meet the affective needs of the gifted and talented student in the regular classroom. This course also lists resources for teachers and parents who would like more information about the talented and gifted.
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