EDUC - Graduation Education - Core

This course develops an advanced knowledge of student learning to help teachers guide their students towards deeper thinking in the classroom. This course also considers how general education teachers can better academically serve traditionally underserved students. Requires field experience in one's own classroom.

This course studies what it means to be a teacher faithful to their professional calling and design upon whom society depends for the modeling, teaching, and showcasing of virtue. Candidates will reflect on their disposition for teaching and their own culturally responsive lifestyle.

Candidates will examine and further develop their classroom practices with a focus on those that produce the greatest impact on learning. Candidates will analyze their high-leverage teaching practices and work together to highlight areas of commendation and improvement. The integration of contemporary technology as a means to enhance learning will be explored. This course requires field experience.

This course builds upon existing knowledge of curriculum design with the theoretical tools needed to analyze curriculum critically. Candidates extend their knowledge of curriculum mapping, encompassing areas such as backward design, alignment to academic content standards with core social justice, scope and sequence, differentiation, and technology integration.

This course builds upon existing knowledge about assessment design and experiences in previous curriculum courses with the theoretical tools needed to analyze assessment critically. Candidates will use principles of triangulation and backward design to critique assessments while demonstrating application of core social justice, technology integration, and differentiation in assessment design. Prerequisite: EDUC-540.

This course builds upon existing knowledge about classroom instruction with the theoretical tools needed to analyze pedagogy critically. Candidates will assess the quality of instructional practices, and evaluate culturally responsive teaching and technology integration. This course requires a field experience in a school setting. Prerequisite: EDUC-550.

This course introduces candidates to basic research tools for career-long application in classroom teaching, including education research methods, literature review, numerical data exploration, and presentation. Ethics and best practices of subject-centered research will be explored and applied. The course culminates in the development of a plan to address an interesting question or problem within one's classroom or school. Prerequisites: EDUC-510, EDUC-520, EDUC-530.

This course provides candidates with an opportunity to answer an interesting question or problem within their own classroom or school through an action research agenda, as initiated in the prerequisite course. Candidates implement the intervention, analyze its outcomes, and present findings. Prerequisite: EDUC-600.

In a continuation of the curriculum principles explored in the previous course, candidates will apply those principles to solve a curriculum need in a classroom or school. Candidates will utilize leadership, revision, and communication skills useful for implementing a curriculum transformation. Prerequisite: EDUC-540

This course builds upon assessment and curriculum principles from previous courses to solve assessment needs in the classroom or school. Implementation of assessment transformation applies leadership, revision, and communication skills. Candidates will demonstrate application of core social justice, technology integration, and differentiation. Prerequisite: EDUC-550

In a continuation of the instructional, assessment, and curriculum principles grasped in the previous courses, candidates will apply those principles to solve instructional needs in their own school using an appropriate professional development structure. Leadership, revision, and communication skills useful for implementing more innovative instruction will also be utilized. A field experience in a school setting is required. Prerequisite: EDUC-560