Courses

Focuses on learners with exceptionalities with emphasis on factors relating to current practices, identification, characteristics, and educational adaptations in special education preschool to 21 (P-21). Course topics include issues related to mild disabilities, severe disabilities, emotional and behavioral disorders, intellectual disabilities, and gifted and talented.

This course covers multiple aspects of fine arts education including the use of content, functions, and achievements of the performing arts (dance, music, theatre) and visual arts as primary media for communication, inquiry, and engagement among elementary students.

Learn to perform and instruct a variety of fitness activities. Emphasis will be placed on performing fitness skills and on the methods and techniques for instructing and teaching specific fitness activities. Techniques for evaluating the knowledge and skills of the activities will also be stressed.

This course explores principles and evidence-based practices for teaching fitness develop the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to design, facilitate, and evaluate nutritional literacy and promote lifelong physical, social, and emotional well-being. professionals, this course equips students with the tools to foster meaningful, safe,

Class instruction in the fundamentals of playing and teaching flute and single reeds.

This course provides an understanding of language and literacy learning in multilingual children from birth to grade two. The course exposes students to current research and theories on language development and early reading and writing in monolingual and multilingual children.

This course provides an understanding of language and literacy learning in multilingual children in the elementary grades. It focuses on research-based literacy instructional and assessment practices that are developmentally, culturally and linguistically appropriate for teaching literacy in English and children’s additional languages.

This course provides pre-service content-area teachers a foundation to address the needs of multilingual learners in their classes. The course includes fundamental knowledge about language and communication, language acquisition, differentiated instruction and assessment, and ESL program types for pre-service teachers to implement appropriate and effective strategies to support the academic success of English learners.

Prepare students for integrating STEAM and new technologies into the P-12 curriculum. Emphasis will be placed on introducing 21st Century Skills (communicating, collaborating, creating, problem-solving and critical thinking), project and inquiry-based learning, quality questioning, and ISTE standards.

Materials and methods. Emphasis on developing teaching competencies in general music, with an emphasis on the elementary school level.