Courses

This course equips teacher leaders with the knowledge and skills to identify, frame, and analyze key issues faced by schools. Students will explore effective strategies for evaluating and seeking solutions to these challenges through research and datadriven inquiry. The course culminates in the implementation of a research study that addresses a current problem in the K-12 educational environment.

This course equips teacher leaders with the knowledge and skills to identify, frame, and analyze key issues faced by schools. Students will explore effective strategies for evaluating and seeking solutions to these challenges through research and datadriven inquiry. The course culminates in the implementation of a research study that addresses a current problem in the K-12 educational environment.

Must be taken in the last semester of enrollment. Continuation of identification and analysis of problems specific to the current counseling environment with emphasis on development of innovative and unique solutions.

This course is designed to prepare candidates for action research in their school environment. In this course, candidates will design individual research that applies to their area of specialty and can be applied to their classroom, school, or school system.

This course engages graduate students in action research, a form of self-reflective learners. Topics include discussion of ethical guidelines, data collection techniques, and serve as change agents in educational communities.

This course will be the culminating experience in the program. Candidates will conduct an action research project in their practicum/ intership placement on either an individual student or the entire class. Candidates will be required to write up the research project for possible submission and present the project to the SPE Graduate Faculty. SPE 7000 Advanced Strategies for Students with Disabilities-Elementary Level (3) Prerequisite(s): SPE 300 or SPE 5100.

Analysis of research on writing in the workplace, the community, and educational settings.

Basic concepts associated with physical activity and the opportunities on campus to engage in health-promoting and wellness activities. Course may be repeated for a maximum of 4 credit hours.

Introduction to the Theory of Automatic Control specifically applied to aerospace vehicles; techniques for analysis and synthesis of linear control systems, stability criteria, systems response and performance criteria; design studies of active controls to improve aerospace vehicle performance.

The course focuses on instructional strategies that will allow teachers to promote active learning in geography. Emphasis will be on how active learning can help students reach geography content and skills standards.