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.

An online didactic course in which principles of teaching and learning are explored. Learning needs of selected health care populations and future and current health care providers are assessed. Students will use these assessed learning needs to plan, implement, and evaluate teaching plans. Students also analyze, design, implement and evaluate courses of study using information and communication technologies.

A clinical course that assesses the learning needs of a selected health care population. Students will use these assessed learning needs to plan, implement, and evaluate culturally, age-appropriate teaching plans. The focus of this course is to prepare the nurse to expand the knowledge base of health care consumers - individuals, groups, and communities - in areas of health.

A clinical course in which the learning needs of health care providers are assessed in higher education. Students design, implement and evaluate courses of study and curricula based on assessed learning needs. These activities will enhance the teaching and learning activities of health care providers. Various teaching-learning theories and evidence based practices will be explored.

An overview of the dimensions of thinking skills with a focus on practical instructional techniques for special and regular education programs. Includes detailed training in models for teaching thinking skills that result in improved student and teacher thinking.

Class instruction in the fundamentals of vocal production and teaching singing.

This course is designed to introduce prospective teachers to currently available technology and to prepare them to use various media for their own education as well as in their professional careers. Students are expected to become comfortable in the use of various media and to explore the possibilities for the use of media in the classroom. Emphasis is given to ways in which multimedia can be used to meet the needs of the varying learning styles.

Reviews the history of numerous regions around the world that are outside of the North American/European frame, considers the importance of these regions independently and collectively through historical and current lenses, reviews the middle and high school education standards related to the teaching of world regions and history.

EH 203 and EH 204 or EH 231 and 232. This course is designed to expose English language arts students to critical theory, history, and standards, which are embedded in the multiple roles of teaching writing in middle and high schools. Practical instructional strategies in teaching writing through traditional and new literacies will be explored. ESE 439 Classroom Management and Diversity in Middle Level Education (3) Prerequisite(s): Requires Teacher Education Program eligibility.

This course is designed to prepare prospective English teachers to successfully teach and evaluate writing in grades 6-12.