2021-2022 Course List

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A course designed to upgrade the qualifications of persons on-the-job.

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Course provides workplace experience under the direction of an on-site supervisor.

Advanced independent study.

A course designed to upgrade the qualifications of persons on-the-job.

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Review and interpretation of a body of research.

Thesis research.

Advanced independent reading on topics in the discipline.

Varied topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering. May be repeated as topics change.

Thesis preparation.

An early course for elementary education majors. Exploration of the career field, introduction to the role of standards in education, overview of general methodology for the elementary classroom.

Goal Areas:

GE-12

This course provides students opportunities to: 1, understand the theories and contributions of major educational psychologists and theorists; 2, develop and demonstrate skills in educational technologies; and 3, develop context for the knowledge and skills described above through activities/field experience.

Study of interpersonal skills, motivation and group skills. Applied to educational settings. Meets State of Minnesota human relations requirement for teacher licensure.

Goal Areas:

GE-7, GE-11

Diverse Cultures:

Gold

The middle school concept, curriculum, and teaching methods.

For teachers of students whose dominant language is other than English.

Teacher candidates will think critically about the context in which all students learn and will learn about historical and current patterns of inequitable education that marginalize students who have been minoritized according to race, culture, language, or ability. The course will focus on research-based practices that teacher candidates can use to create identity-safe classrooms and how they can work with families and communities using an asset lens.

Prerequisites:

Admission to Professional Education and the Elementary Education program.

Students learn to use a variety of developmentally appropriate, motivating techniques to disrupt predictable patterns of achievement and to advance children¿s: oral and written language, knowledge of phonemic awareness, phonics, and concepts about print within a balanced literacy framework. Additionally, the interdependent nature of reading, writing, listening, and speaking, stages of spelling development, and role of vocabulary and fluency in reading comprehension are addressed.

Prerequisites:

Admission into Professional Education and the Elementary Education program

This course is designed to prepare teacher candidates with the understanding and application of concepts related to human diversity and interactions, structures of power, the identity of individuals and communities, and explicitly connects social studies concepts with their influence on educational experiences of diverse learners.

Prerequisites:

Admission into Professional Education and the Elementary Education program

This course introduces elementary teacher candidates to areas of exceptionality in learning. Teacher candidates within the course will analyze elementary instruction within the general education classroom and learn to develop antiracist instruction that builds on students¿ assets and cultural capital with consideration of individual differences.

Prerequisites:

Admission into Professional Education and the Elementary Education program

The focus of this course will be providing teacher candidates with strategies and tools in providing daily instruction for diverse learners in terms of race, gender, ethnicity, nationality, language, religion, sexuality, social economic status and class. The course will focus on learners with complex and multiple disabilities that requires a variety of materials, strategies, and differentiation. The teacher candidates will have an opportunity to implement their plans in the classroom during field experience while closely working with a classroom mentor teacher and university mentor.

Prerequisites:

Admission into Professional Education and the Elementary Education program

This course will engage teacher candidates in critically analyzing children¿s texts. Teacher candidates will learn how to integrate diverse literature across the elementary curriculum and meet objectives and standards in math, literacy, social studies, science, and the arts. Teacher candidates will learn how to guide students in developing their literacy identities in order to promote reading engagement and students as independent and collaborative readers.

Prerequisites:

Admission into Professional Education and the Elementary Education program