| LRN_SCI 426 |
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Technological Tools for Thinking and Learning
Constructionist approach to design. Participants discuss learning design literature, critique software, and design and build computer-based learning environment (CBLE). Student LE designs can include microworlds, goal-based scenarios, games, robots, and complex systems models among many others working primarily in Logo, NetLogo, and NetLogoLab.
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| LRN_SCI 435 |
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Science Teaching
This seminar will review current trends and research in science education, focusing on innovative approaches to teaching, including technology-based learning environments. Course readings will combine studies of student reasoning, studies of science teaching practice, new paradigms for technology-based learning environments in science, and empirical studies of the problems and prospects of various approaches.
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| LRN_SCI 438 |
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Topics in Learning Sciences: Teaching with Technology
This course is designed to help prepare teachers looking to integrate the use of digital technologies into their practice. The course combines theory and practice to provide students with (a) practical strategies for employing technology in classrooms and (b) conceptual strategies for integrating technologies into effective pedagogy. The course will involve the reading of relevant articles, class discussions, laboratory sessions with technology enhanced curricular units.
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| MS_ED 402 |
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Social Contexts of Education
How social contexts such as families, schools, and the workplace shape individuals; how individuals' intellectual and interpersonal capacities, preferences, and goals are shaped by their social contexts. Societal structures that organize, supply, and channel individual learning experiences and how they provide the formal and informal settings in which social interaction takes place. How participation in these socializing settings molds the development of individuals' capacities and forms their goals.
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| MS_ED 403 |
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Childhood and Early Adolescent Development and Learning
Overview of developmental concepts from birth into adolescence. The interplay of biological invariants, individual differences, and cultural experiences; relationships among cognitive, social, and cultural aspects of development and learning; major developmental theories and contexts of the construction of these theories; implications for teaching and learning.
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| MS_ED 404 |
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Adolescent Development in Social Contexts
Adolescent development in its differing social contexts, with particular attention to schools, families and peer groups. By mixing social science with philosophy, the class explores the types of environments that best enhance growth and development during this stage of life.
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| MS_ED 405 |
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Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
This course addresses the issue of learning. What is learning in higher education and what challenges does it pose to teaching? How can teaching respond? Students will examine different models and theories of learning, recent research on student conceptions of and approaches to learning, the impact of learning on faculty understanding and approaches to teaching.
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| MS_ED 406 |
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Research and Analysis in Teaching and Learning I: Discussion and Question Development
The course aims to help students meet three goals that will advance the progress of the Master's Project and, at the same time, develop skills of questioning and discussion that are useful in many teaching-learning contexts. The three goals include: the formation of a question which the Master's Project will address; a description of the rationale for the question; and the start of a literature review on the topic. In order to meet the goals, students will develop questions about the meaning of texts, refine these through small-group discussion, and develop skills of effective discussion participation and leading, including preparation for discussion. Taken together, these skills permit not only the cultivation of meaningful questions but progress toward their resolution, as they develop habits of careful reading and reflection. Texts for the course will include classic works related to discussion and questioning and the domain of the Master's Project. Each student will lead a discussion on a text germane to the question chosen for the Master's Project.
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| MS_ED 407 |
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Research and Analysis in Teaching and Learning II: Literature Review and Methodology
This class is intended to be a forum in which to investigate the paradigms and approaches to educational research that participants can utilize in their Master's Projects. Participants discuss and refine their research questions and examine methods of data collection within the framework of research plans they design for their projects. Teacher research and action research are particularly emphasized for practitioner researchers. Participants investigate criteria used to evaluate research relevant to education and experience peer review of their own research displayed during the course. This is the second of a three-course sequence relating to student's Master's Project research. The third class is MS_ED 408, Research and Analysis in Teaching and Learning III: Analyis Interpretation and Dissemination.
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| MS_ED 408 |
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Research and Analysis in Teaching and Learning III: Analyis Interpretation and Dissemination
This course helps students refine the reflective skills required of educators in complex social institutions such as schools, businesses, and nonprofit organizations and develop effective problem-identification and -solving approaches. Intensive analysis and discussion of questions encountered in elementary and secondary schools, administrative, higher education, and corporate settings. Students present their Master's Project in this course.
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| MS_ED 413 |
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Problems in the Philosophy of Education
Classical and modern philosophies of education. Text interpretation, analysis of ideas, and argument construction; the relation of philosophy to educational issues. Students develop their own philosophy of education in the course.
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| MS_ED 420 |
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Foundations of Writing Processes
Cognitive and sociocultural foundations of writing processes and their implications for writing instruction and assessment; includes supervised field experience. Required for students seeking certification in English.
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| MS_ED 421 |
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Children's Literature
This class surveys various aspects of children’s literature, with emphases on fairy tales, picture books, and novels. We will read books for children of all ages, from kindergarten to young adult (teens). To help you develop an understanding of and appreciation for children’s literature, this class will teach you recognize its genres, to examine it critically, and to demonstrate your increased knowledge through assignments.
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| MS_ED 422 |
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Teaching Reading in the Content Area
This course is designed to help middle school and high school English teachers develop an understanding of specific strategies that readers must use to achieve deep comprehension of content material. Students will explore cognitive foundations of reading comprehension and their influence on methods of instruction and assessment, as well as the interrelationships among reading processes and language learning. Theory and practice relationships will be explored as students experience and learn about: text structure, use of background knowledge, comprehension connections, inferencing, strategies for active engagement, socio-cultural influences on reading, reading/writing relationships, text sets, and assessment of content reading.
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| MS_ED 423 |
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Foundations of Reading and Language Acquisition: Elementary
Cognitive foundations of reading comprehension and their influence on methods of instruction and assessment; the interrelationships among reading processes and language learning.
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| MS_ED 424 |
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Foundations of Reading and Language Acquisition: Secondary
Cognitive foundations of reading comprehension and their influence on methods of instruction and assessment; the interrelationships among reading processes and language learning. Required for students seeking certification in English.
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| MS_ED 425 |
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Foundations of Writing Processes
Current theory and practice related to writing processes, with emphasis on personal writing experiences, including topic selection, drafting, conferencing, revising, editing and publishing. Other topics include evaluation, writing in various genres and about various subjects, motivating students to write and management of writing workshops.
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| MS_ED 426 |
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Mathematics in the Elementary School from an Advanced View
Overview of mathematical topics taught in elementary and middle school. Students learn in small groups and reflect on their own and children's learning. Pedagogical contexts for the mathematical concepts are provided so students can reconstruct their mathematical understanding. Review of research on children's conceptions of various mathematics topics, leading to a fuller comprehension of teaching and learning mathematics.
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| MS_ED 427 |
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Educating Exceptional Children
Characteristics of different exceptionalities (physiological, intellectual, and social-emotional) and etiological factors; trends in legislation, educational programming, and approaches to instruction for students with disabilities.
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| MS_ED 428 |
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Dynamics of Middle School Curriculum
The objective of this course is for students to understand and explore the dynamic environment of middle schools and young adolescents, and to consider the impact of middle school principles, structures, and practices on classroom learning and instruction. Students will examine the unique characteristics of middle school learning and the educational needs of young adolescent learners, and they will compare and contrast a variety of middle school models, including policy statements, visions and reform proposals. Major topics include public policy issues, adolescent development, standards and curriculum, measures of intelligence, learning differences, school structure and culture, instructional relation¬ships and strategies, literacy and reading in the content areas, the development of critical thinking skills, culturally responsive and equitable practices, interdisciplinary instruction, assessment methods, middle school leadership, and technology.
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| MS_ED 429 |
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Hlth & Phys Devl
This course is to examine the physical development of children from early infancy through adolescence. Particular attention is paid to the school age child and to those strategies that can be used by school personnel at the classroom and building levels to enhance the physical well-being of children
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| MS_ED 440 |
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The Gifted: Differentiating Instruction
Students will learn how to assess characteristics of students within their classroom so as to create an optimal match between student and instruction; to develop differentiated curriculum units and design classroom learning environments conducive to differentiation; and to establish management systems for a differentiated classroom.
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| MS_ED 442 |
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The Gifted: Theoretical Foundations of Creativity and Giftedness
Topics in this foundations course include theories of creativity and giftedness; models of talent development; cognitive and social-emotional characteristics of gifted individuals; diverse populations of gifted learners; historical and current research in the field of gifted education.
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| MS_ED 443 |
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The Gifted: Leadership and Advocacy
This course explores educational leadership and advocacy for talent development at the local, state, and national arena.
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| MS_ED 444 |
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The Gifted: Practicum and Seminar in Special Populations
Students complete a 40-hour practicum with gifted and talented learners at Northwestern's Center for talent Development. The practicum seminar provides the opportunity for students to discuss their field experiences with their peers and reflect on these experiences in the light of research and educational theory.
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| MS_ED 445 |
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The Gifted: Special Topics
This course explores in depth critical issues in the fields of talent development and creativity. A major focus is for students to identify an area of interest in which to read deeply and broadly, gaining perspectives from a variety of fields and areas of inquiry.
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| MS_ED 451 |
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Topics in Teaching and Learning: Using Video to Study Teaching
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| MS_ED 451 |
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Special Topics in Higher Education
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| MS_ED 451 Sec 20 |
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Topics in Teaching and Learning: Using Teacher and Student Work to Study Teaching and Learning
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| MS_ED 453 |
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Methods and Techniques of Teaching: Elementary
Analysis of teaching specific subject-matter areas, the development of learning experiences, and techniques specific to particular subjects; literature, research, and scholarly content of teaching methodology. Students choose the course appropriate to their area of certification. Course work in this sequence is related to issues explored in MS_ED 406 Research and Analysis in Teaching and Learning: Discussion and Question Development.
This course is accompanied by a half-time, 10-week teaching practicum that includes observation and assumption of teaching and management dutiesin a public school setting. The MSEd program staff places students in schools; students are responsible for planning a schedule of daily activities with their classroom supervisor, according to University guidelines. The practicum is a prerequisite for the MS_ED 487-489 Student Teaching.
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| MS_ED 454 |
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Methods and Techniques of Teaching: Art
Analysis of teaching specific subject-matter areas, the development of learning experiences, and techniques specific to particular subjects; literature, research, and scholarly content of teaching methodology. Students choose the course appropriate to their area of certification. Course work in this sequence is related to issues explored in MS_ED 406 Research and Analysis in Teaching and Learning: Discussion and Question Development.
This course is accompanied by a half-time, 10-week teaching practicum that includes observation and assumption of teaching and management dutiesin a public school setting. The MSEd program staff places students in schools; students are responsible for planning a schedule of daily activities with their classroom supervisor, according to University guidelines. The practicum is a prerequisite for the MS_ED 487-489 Student Teaching.
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| MS_ED 455 |
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Methods and Techniques of Teaching: Foreign Languages
Analysis of teaching specific subject-matter areas, the development of learning experiences, and techniques specific to particular subjects; literature, research, and scholarly content of teaching methodology. Students choose the course appropriate to their area of certification. Course work in this sequence is related to issues explored in MS_ED 406 Research and Analysis in Teaching and Learning: Discussion and Question Development.
This course is accompanied by a half-time, 10-week teaching practicum that includes observation and assumption of teaching and management dutiesin a public school setting. The MSEd program staff places students in schools; students are responsible for planning a schedule of daily activities with their classroom supervisor, according to University guidelines. The practicum is a prerequisite for the MS_ED 487-489 Student Teaching.
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| MS_ED 456 |
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Methods and Techniques of Teaching: English
Analysis of teaching specific subject-matter areas, the development of learning experiences, and techniques specific to particular subjects; literature, research, and scholarly content of teaching methodology. Students choose the course appropriate to their area of certification. Course work in this sequence is related to issues explored in MS_ED 406 Research and Analysis in Teaching and Learning: Discussion and Question Development.
This course is accompanied by a half-time, 10-week teaching practicum that includes observation and assumption of teaching and management dutiesin a public school setting. The MSEd program staff places students in schools; students are responsible for planning a schedule of daily activities with their classroom supervisor, according to University guidelines. The practicum is a prerequisite for the MS_ED 487-489 Student Teaching.
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| MS_ED 457 |
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Methods and Techniques of Teaching: Mathematics
Analysis of teaching specific subject-matter areas, the development of learning experiences, and techniques specific to particular subjects; literature, research, and scholarly content of teaching methodology. Students choose the course appropriate to their area of certification. Course work in this sequence is related to issues explored in MS_ED 406 Research and Analysis in Teaching and Learning: Discussion and Question Development.
This course is accompanied by a half-time, 10-week teaching practicum that includes observation and assumption of teaching and management dutiesin a public school setting. The MSEd program staff places students in schools; students are responsible for planning a schedule of daily activities with their classroom supervisor, according to University guidelines. The practicum is a prerequisite for the MS_ED 487-489 Student Teaching.
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| MS_ED 458 |
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Methods and Techniques of Teaching: Sciences
Analysis of teaching specific subject-matter areas, the development of learning experiences, and techniques specific to particular subjects; literature, research, and scholarly content of teaching methodology. Students choose the course appropriate to their area of certification. Course work in this sequence is related to issues explored in MS_ED 406 Research and Analysis in Teaching and Learning: Discussion and Question Development.
This course is accompanied by a half-time, 10-week teaching practicum that includes observation and assumption of teaching and management dutiesin a public school setting. The MSEd program staff places students in schools; students are responsible for planning a schedule of daily activities with their classroom supervisor, according to University guidelines. The practicum is a prerequisite for the MS_ED 487-489 Student Teaching.
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| MS_ED 459 |
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Methods and Techniques of Teaching: Social Sciences
Analysis of teaching specific subject-matter areas, the development of learning experiences, and techniques specific to particular subjects; literature, research, and scholarly content of teaching methodology. Students choose the course appropriate to their area of certification. Course work in this sequence is related to issues explored in MS_ED 406 Research and Analysis in Teaching and Learning: Discussion and Question Development.
This course is accompanied by a half-time, 10-week teaching practicum that includes observation and assumption of teaching and management dutiesin a public school setting. The MSEd program staff places students in schools; students are responsible for planning a schedule of daily activities with their classroom supervisor, according to University guidelines. The practicum is a prerequisite for the MS_ED 487-489 Student Teaching.
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| MS_ED 459 |
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Section 21
Analysis of teaching specific subject-matter areas, the development of learning experiences, and techniques specific to particular subjects; literature, research, and scholarly content of teaching methodology. Students choose the course appropriate to their area of certification. Course work in this sequence is related to issues explored in MS_ED 406 Research and Analysis in Teaching and Learning: Discussion and Question Development.
This course is accompanied by a half-time, 10-week teaching practicum that includes observation and assumption of teaching and management dutiesin a public school setting. The MSEd program staff places students in schools; students are responsible for planning a schedule of daily activities with their classroom supervisor, according to University guidelines. The practicum is a prerequisite for the MS_ED 487-489 Student Teaching.
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| MS_ED 460 |
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Proseminar in Higher Education
Class discussion concentrates on current and ongoing issues in the American postsecondary educational system. Students are introduced to areas of professional endeavor within the field (enrollment management, student affairs, etc.), explore major sources of information about various areas of higher-education administration, and have the opportunity to meet higher-education professionals.
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| MS_ED 462 |
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The College Student
This class examines student development research and discusses how students in undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools change intellectually, morally, ethically, emotionally, and socially as a result of their classroom and non-classroom experiences. Practical applications and issues for enhancing the effectiveness of college and university programs are also addressed.
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| MS_ED 465 |
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Law and Ethics in Higher Education
Legal professionals guide students through the legal and ethical issues associated with higher education administration. This includes applying both dimensions to the daily work of higher education administration.
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| MS_ED 466 |
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Budgeting and Finance in Higher Education
This course will comprehensively address the budget process in colleges and universities, as well as the impact of budget activities on all areas of planning and operations within an institution. Students will develop and enhance their abilities to write and speak effectively about budget and finance-related issues.
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| MS_ED 467 |
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History & Philosophy of Higher Education
This course will survey and assess the evolution of American Higher Education from the founding of Harvard College to present patterns of virtual and distance learning. Historical and institutional contexts for this development include consideration of the role of religion, government, and the private sector in shaping the demand and provision of elite and accessible forms of higher education opportunity.
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| MS_ED 468 |
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Higher Education Policy
This course examines concepts, models, and theories about public policy and the federal policy process with regard to areas of major importance to higher education (e.g., student aid, taxes, research, and affirmative action). Current policy issues are analyzed in comparison with past executive, legislative, and judicial branch actions in those policy arenas. The course is designed to provide a basic understanding of higher education policy in the U.S. at the national level. MS_ED 460 is a prerequisite for this course.
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| MS_ED 477 |
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Practicum Seminar
This seminar is designed to enrich the Practicum/Observation experience for Elementary candidates. Through whole class and small group discussion, you will have opportunities to share your observations, questions, and reflections. Each week various topics of teaching and learning will be addressed which will help prepare you for student teaching
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| MS_ED 478 |
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Prac Sem Humanities
The Practicum Seminar: Humanities provides an open forum for Secondary candidates to share their observations, questions, discoveries and reflections during the Practicum in their assigned schools. Equally, each week’s seminar addresses various topics of teaching and learning that are preparatory to the Student Teaching quarter. The topics of the seminar and those of the methods classes are designed to be complementary and mutually reinforcing. The Practicum Seminar will also help students direct their observations in their placements.
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| MS_ED 478 |
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Section 21
The Practicum Seminar: Humanities provides an open forum for Secondary candidates to share their observations, questions, discoveries and reflections during the Practicum in their assigned schools. Equally, each week’s seminar addresses various topics of teaching and learning that are preparatory to the Student Teaching quarter. The topics of the seminar and those of the methods classes are designed to be complementary and mutually reinforcing. The Practicum Seminar will also help students direct their observations in their placements.
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| MS_ED 479 |
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Prac Sem Math/Science
The Practicum Seminar: Math and Science is the intersection of practice and theory. It provides an open forum designed for sharing observations, questions, concerns, discoveries, and reflections that occur during the Practicum/Observation quarter in student's assigned schools. Sense-making discussions based on these issues help frame the application of theory within the real world classroom. Additionally, each week’s seminar addresses various topics of teaching and learning that crucial to student's development as a practitioner during the Student Teaching quarter. These sessions are designed to be complementary to the methods courses. Practicum provides that general focus and your methods provide the specific focus.
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| MS_ED 484 |
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Higher Education Administration Seminar
This seminar gives a context for the higher education work experience of graduate students in the master's program through an examination of theory and research on organization and governance, management, leadership, and ethics. This seminar should be taken concurrently with or after the research sequence MS_ED 406, 407, and 408.
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| MS_ED 485 |
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Higher Education Internship
Internships help students develop skills essential for successful administration, including the use of theoretical knowledge to inform professional practice and the cultivation of questions rooted in practice to illuminate the meaning of theory.
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| MS_ED 487 |
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Student Teaching - Elementary
This seminar is designed to enrich the student teaching experience for Elementary candidates through whole class and small group discussions. Readings, assignments and guest speakers will enrich this course and provide participants with opportunities for reflection, sharing, and problem solving of issues encountered in the classroom.
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| MS_ED 488 |
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Student Teaching - Secondary: Humanities
The purposes of the Student Teaching Seminar: Secondary Humanities include coordination of activities relating to student teaching/internship, assistance to students to enrich the experience as much as possible, introduction and/or emphasis of topics pertinent to the success of the experience, facilitation in the development of a professional teacher, and answers to questions, possible solutions to dilemmas, and support to students throughout the quarter.
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| MS_ED 489 |
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Student Teaching - Secondary: Math & Science
The purposes of the Student Teaching Seminar: Secondary Math & Science include coordination of activities relating to student teaching/internship, assistance to students to enrich the experience as much as possible, introduction and/or emphasis of topics pertinent to the success of the experience, facilitation in the development of a professional teacher, and answers to questions, possible solutions to dilemmas, and support to students throughout the quarter.
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| MS_ED 499 |
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Independent Study
Consent of MSEd program director required. Forms requesting independent studies or internships are available for download.
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| MS_ED 499 |
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Section 15
Consent of MSEd program director required. Forms requesting independent studies or internships are available for download.
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| MS_ED 499 |
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Section 21
Consent of MSEd program director required. Forms requesting independent studies or internships are available for download.
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