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Teacher Education (TCH-ED)

TCH-ED 5420      Adolescent Development View Details
Various aspects of physiological, emotional, cognitive, social and moral development in adolescence will be considered. Attention is focused on a conception of adolescence that is grounded on current research and theory.
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TCH-ED 5492      Language Arts Capstone View Details
Designed for students in their last professional semester of the TE program, and are in a full-time student teaching placement. The course will serve as a culminating experience of the major concepts from the previous three semesters. Topics covered include school law, classroom management,working with special needs students, building critical thinking activities into the curriculum, planning and implementing authentic assessments, and examining the obligations, challenges, and realities of the teaching profession. Prerequisite: TE 432 and concurrent enrollment in student teaching.
Credits: 2 hours
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TCH-ED 5493      Mathematics Capstone View Details
This seminar will develop academic excellence, inquiry and reflective problem solving, and skills to create caring and sate environments. It is designed to complement the student teaching experience through discussing and analyzing school and school-based issues. It is intended to help further development of reflective, critical, and analytical approaches to pedagogical decision making through supportive collaboration. Students are asked to use knowledge of child/adolescent development, learning classroom dynamics, society, history, culture and subject area to analyze classroom situations, and develop and defend alternatives to observed teaching practices and problems. Prerequisites: TE 433 and concurrent enrollment in Student Teaching.
Credits: 2 hours
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TCH-ED 5495      Science Capstone View Details
This course is a continuation of science teaching methods to prepare prospective middle and high school science teachers with the necessary background knowledge and laboratory skills to become effective professional science teachers. This course is pragmatic in nature to assist you during student teaching and will stress application of inquiry instruction, science assessment, data analysis, and analysis of learning. The blended and online synchronous format allows maximum contract time in a classroom setting. Topics include science safety, classroom management, behavior management, homework, and NSTA position statements, working with students with disabilities and professionalism in science education. The objectives will be addressed in a seminar setting within the context of student teaching. Application of materials developed during science methods and subsequent preparation of the Teacher Work Sample are a major emphasis area. Prerequisites: TE 435 and concurrent enrollment in Student Teaching.
Credits: 2 hours
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TCH-ED 5496      Social Studies Capstone View Details
This seminar is designed to complement the student teaching experience through the discussion and analysis of school and school-based issues. It is intended to help you further develop a reflective, critical and analytical approach to pedagogical decision making through supportive collaboration. You will be asked to use your knowledge of child/adolescent development, learning, classroom dynamics, society, history, culture and your subject area to analyze classroom situations, as well as to develop and defend alternatives to observed teaching practices and problems. Prerequisites: TE 436 and concurrent enrollment in Student Teaching.
Credits: 2 hours
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