EDU 550C Curriculum: Design and Practice (3)
An exploration of the content that revolves around the development of the curriculum, this course includes curriculum analyses, models, alignment, and evaluation.
EDU 551C Psychological foundations of Learning (3)
This course addresses developmental stages within the context of major learning theories. The psychology of learning includes motivation, humor, strategic learning, anchored instruction, mediated learning, metacognition, brain research, classroom organization, management, climate, and communication for effective teaching. Successful completion of a field experience is required to pass this course.
EDU 552C Assessment for Excellence (3)
Models of assessment are examined to determine measures of student performance. These include authentic assessment, competency-based assessment, assessment instruments, and assessment reports. Emphasis is given to accountability, data-driven instruction, and current trends in assessment.
EDU 563C Legal, Ethical, and Political Issues (3)
Legal and ethical responsibilities of teachers toward their students are central to this course. The legal rights and liabilities of teachers and the responsibilities in maintaining an orderly classroom climate will be discussed. Political influences are juxtaposed against moral and ethical responsibilities in decision making. Strategies for interacting with media are included.
EDU 6500 Classroom Organization and Management Program (3)
A proactive program of classroom management that has demonstrated increases in student appropriate and on-task behavior and in student achievement, the primary goal is to help teachers improve their overall instructional and behavioral management skills through planning, implementing, and maintaining effective classroom practices for both experienced and beginning teachers.
TMA 6615 Secondary Instructional Design 7-12 (3)
This course explores the climate and culture of effective secondary learning environments, programming, and instructional and curricular models within the 7-12 school setting. Teaching strategies that facilitate learning in the secondary grades are also examined. Students review developmentally appropriate practices in the 7-12 learning environment. A second component of this course explores ways to prevent misbehaviors from occurring, support students when misbehaviors occur, and correct students when problems persist. Emphasis is placed on holding high expectations, encouraging and motivating the heart, and modeling the way for students in a firm and caring learning environment. Addressing the needs of students with special needs, including English language learners, is included. Successful completion of a field experience is required in order to pass this course.
TMA 6625 Reading & Writing in the Content Areas: Middle & Secondary (3)
This course addresses taching reading and writing in the various subject areas at the secondary level. It stresses skills of vocabulary building, comprehension and writing as well as skills and methods of motivating students to read and write. Successful completion of a field experience is required in order to pass this course.
TMA 6635 Methods and Tools for Secondary Teachers (3)
The focus of this course is on materials, methods, and skills needed to effectively teach at the secondary level. A variety of instructional tools, including significant use of technology, is included.
TMA 6670 Urban Perspectives in Teaching and Learning (3)This course is designed to provide an overview of the diverse educational needs, challenges, opportunities and rewards that teacher encounter as they seek to effectively meet the needs of learners in urban schools. Students will explore the historical perspective of public urban education, the characteristics of the urban child as well as culturally relevant issues that impact the progress of teaching and learning in an urban setting. Students will examine the impact of poverty on children who may be deemed "at risk." This course will focus on equipping students with the competencies, principles, tools, and instructional strategies to effectively create a positive classroom environment that fosters student achievement. Successful completion of a field experience in a diverse setting is required in order to pass this course.
TMA 6665 Student Teaching and Seminar 7-12 (6)
The student must have taken and passed all specialty area tests required by the State Department of Education for licensure prior to enrolling in student teaching. Student teaching includes a 15-week, semester long professional practice experience in two diverse secondary public school settings at different grade levels, and opening of school experience, and a seminar component for processing the application of knowledge and the analysis of teaching skills, lesson and unit planning, classroom management, and other professional issues. The culminating activity is the review of the portfolio by School of Education faculty. Successful completion of the seminar and the portfolio is required in order for the student to reveive a pass in student teaching. This requirement may be waived upon acceptable documentation of two years of successful teaching experience.
E-Portfolio Presentation (NC)
The student maintains an E-portfolio throughout the program that is evaluated at the time of the culminating activity of the student teaching seminar. A special session for this purpose is arranged for the students who do not take the seminar as a result of having two years of successful teaching in lieu of student teaching.
