ASMT5030 |
Elementary Teaching Benchmark: Lesson Planning |
0 Semester Credits |
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This course provides additional support, as needed, for students to successfully complete the first benchmark in the Elementary MAT/T2T. The assessment is the development and implementation of a lesson plan. Students must pass the benchmark to continue in the licensure track. |
ASMT5040 |
Elementary Teaching Benchmark: Professionalism |
0 Semester Credits |
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This course provides additional support, as needed, for students to successfully complete the second benchmark in the Elementary MAT/T2T program. The assessment is a professional interview which is submitted as a video recording in response to a series of questions focused on professionalism and ethics for classroom teachers. Students must pass the benchmark to continue in the licensure track. |
DL5013 |
Engaging Diverse Learners in Digital Environments |
3 Semester Credits |
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This course examines the impact of technology on learning as well as how today’s student navigates a media-rich world. Topics include the human-computer interface, technology and the brain, diffusion of innovations, and connectivity through social media. The course considers trends and issues in educational technologies as well as research into the effects of technology on society. |
ED5023 |
Assessment Strategies |
3 Semester Credits |
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Embracing the value of assessment and evaluation is the first step in improving learner outcomes through data-driven decision-making. This course develops relevant competencies and promotes a healthy balance of utilizing formative and summative assessments, evaluation practices, and data to inform and guide integrated curriculum development and instructional delivery. Assessments can provide facilitators with the knowledge and skills required to meet the needs of diverse learners in a variety of school and organizational settings. |
ED5053 |
Community Engagement, Outreach, and Collaboration |
3 Semester Credits |
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How can those within the community support the established teaching and learning goals set by the school? This course provides a foundation for developing relationships among stakeholders in the school community—students, school, parents, and the community at large—for the express goal of supporting student learning. In addition to examining research findings, students will explore family engagement, mutually beneficial community relationships, and student advocacy. The course culminates with a plan for continuing school improvement and professional growth. |
EDTT5021 |
Orientation to Elementary Teaching |
1 Semester Credits |
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This introduction to the teaching field provides students a rich perspective on child development knowledge, observational strategies and skills, and ethics in education. Students increase their understanding and awareness of teacher roles and responsibilities in relation to the school climate and educational policy. The course also introduces students to the tools and technologies that they will need to successfully complete field experiences that are integrated throughout their coursework and the EDTT 5161 Student Teaching Experience. |
EDTT5022 |
Elementary Student Teaching and Seminar |
2 Semester Credits |
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This course provides students with the opportunity to apply theory, pedagogy, and best practices in education to understanding the role of the elementary teacher. In this course, students participate in a 15-week (full time) practicum designed to provide the knowledge and experience necessary for teaching in the elementary classroom. Through an application based learning environment students will apply the skills they have learned throughout their previous coursework and experience firsthand the issues facing schools and classrooms. Topics include educational foundations, philosophy of education, diversity, exceptional needs, classroom management, cultural competencies, as well as lesson planning, implementation and assessment. Pre-requisite(s): Completion of all T2T/MAT content courses; maintenance of 3.0 grade point average across all T2T/MAT courses. |
EDTT5061 |
Capstone Experience for Elementary Students |
1 Semester Credits |
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The capstone experience provides an opportunity for students in the M.A.T. in Elementary Education program to demonstrate and document the impact of the knowledge and competencies gained throughout and as a result of the program. In the capstone experience, students select artifacts produced along with or as a result of course application assignments. These artifacts serve as the centerpiece of a culminating project that demonstrates competency in teaching. |
EDTT5363 |
Integrated Curriculum: Fine Arts, Technology, and Wellness |
3 Semester Credits |
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This course will focus on integrated curriculum for elementary teachers. Emphasis will be placed on content areas outside of the core elementary classroom content, including health and wellness, fine arts and technology. The course will address state and national standards in health and wellness, fine arts and technology as well as strategies to plan and implement activities that integrate these areas with instruction in core academic areas. Students will engage in 5-10 hours of field-based activities. |
LIT5043 |
Emerging Literacy Methods for Elementary Teacher Preparation |
3 Semester Credits |
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This course builds key concepts and principles related to phonemic awareness and phonics, shaping an emerging understanding of the connection between language and the written code. Essential components of effective reading instruction will be explored using a Response to Instruction (Rtl) model. Learners will analyze critical elements of emerging skills to foster the use of appropriate strategies across developmental stages, content areas, technology, and diversity issues in learning to read as they complete 5-10 hours of embedded field experiences. |
LIT5063 |
Developing Literacy Methods: Integrating Skills in Elementary Teacher Prep |
3 Semester Credits |
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This course examines issues related to integrating reading skills to enhance fluency, vocabulary development, and comprehension in a variety of text structures and across content areas. A range of instructional strategies for assessment, intervention, and enrichment will be evaluated as to their effectiveness for supporting engagement and motivation in reading to learn. Key dimensions for the development of differentiated instruction will promote blending of resources from the school environment, community and abroad, including the use of technology. During the course, students complete 5-10 hours of embedded field experiences |
LIT5113 |
Social Studies and Language Arts for Elementary Teacher Preparation |
3 Semester Credits |
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This course considers how to develop an appreciation for the world beyond the classroom as found in writings and other literacies in relation to significant historical events and global perspectives. Principles and methods of inquiry to foster critical and creative thinking are utilized to explore methods for introducing genres and core ideas which have shaped regional, state, national, and global understanding from past eras to present day. Response to Instruction (RtI) procedures will engage strategies and methods appropriate for the delivery of English language arts and social studies through the use of differentiated instruction. Students also engage in 5-10 hours of field experiences. |
MATH5073 |
Mathematics Instruction for Elementary Teacher Preparation |
3 Semester Credits |
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This course provides a foundation for teaching mathematics to diverse elementary students. Students examine current standards in mathematics, as well as the process of aligning curriculum and lesson plans to standards. Students develop a toolkit of content-specific instruction and assessment strategies. Students demonstrate computational skills and understanding of fundamental concepts and processes of mathematics, including number systems and operations, algebraic thinking, measurement, geometry, and statistics and probability. The course includes 5-10 hours of embedded field experiences. |
RES5153 |
Research Methods |
3 Semester Credits |
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This course enables students to become informed consumers of research and to develop skills to prepare them to carry out action research in their professional organizations. An emphasis is placed on providing students with knowledge they can apply in determining whether particular research findings are relevant to their leadership and instructional practices and to distinguish between trustworthy and non-trustworthy research. The course places action research within the context of various types of research and examines research in terms of basic concepts and various purposes, methods, data, and paradigms. Emphasis is placed on how research can become a vital and relevant tool for professional practice. |
SCI5083 |
Science Instruction for Elementary Teacher Preparation |
3 Semester Credits |
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This course provides a foundation for teaching science to diverse elementary students. Students examine current standards in science, as well as the process of aligning curriculum and lesson plans to standards. Students develop a repertoire of content-specific instructional methods for planning, delivering, assessing, and remediating diverse elementary students understanding of the fundamental concepts and mastery of essential process skills associated with science, engineering, and technology. This course provides an integrated scientific inquiry approach using critical-thinking skills, literacy, and technology to explore social, cultural, and ethical aspects of science, including an investigation of the foundational concepts in the physical, Earth and space, and life sciences. Students apply their knowledge and skills in 5-10 hours of embedded field experiences. |