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EDCI Curriculum and Instruction( Education) EDCI385 (PermReq) Computers for Teachers; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD.Prerequisites: admission to teacher education program; and 2.5 GPA. For education majors only. A first-level survey of instructional uses of computers, software, and related technology for preservice teachers. EDCI397 (PermReq) Principles and Methods of Teaching in Elementary Schools; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisites: admission to teacher education program and 2.5 GPA. For education majors only. Teaching strategies, classroom interactive techniques, and procedures for planning and evaluating instruction in elementary schools. Emphasis on principles of effective instruction, classroom management, and adaptation of instruction for various student populations. EDCI461 (PermReq) Materials and Instruction for Creating Skilled and Motivated Readers, Part I; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG. Prerequisite: permission of department. For Elementary Education majors only. Junior standing. Selecting, evaluating, and using a variety of materials to create skilled and motivated readers in the elementary grades; Topics include emergent literacy, vocabulary development, reading comprehension and oral reading fluency in diverse classroom settings. EDCI463 Reading in the Secondary School; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisites: admission to teacher education program; and 2.5 GPA; or permission of department required for post-baccalaureate students. For education majors only. Provides secondary school teachers with understanding the need for and approaches to teaching students to read and learn from content area texts. EDCI488 Selected Topics in Teacher Education: Human Development and Schooling; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. EDCI488A Selected Topics in Teacher Education: Methods of Teaching ESOL; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG. EDCI488P Selected Topics in Teacher Education: English Grammar for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages; (1-3 credits) Grade Method: REG. EDCI488Q Selected Topics in Teacher Education: Foundations of Second Language Education: Trends and Issues; (1-3 credits) Grade Method: REG. EDCI488T Selected Topics in Teacher Education: Teaching for Cross Cultural Communication; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG. EDCI488W Selected Topics in Teacher Education: Teaching ESOL Reading and Writing in Secondary Content Areas; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG. EDCI498 Special Problems in Teacher Education; (1-6 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number. EDCI614 Developing a Professional Portfolio; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG. Students will examine issues of performance assessment and develop professional portfolios following the guidelines established by the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards. Drawing on the research data collected throughout their program and relying on inquiry, reflections, and analysis, they will synthesize and present the body of their teaching experience. EDCI630 Foundations of Second Language Eduction: Legal, Social and Historical Trends and Issues; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Knowledge of history, research, current practice and public policy issues in the field of second languague education from kindergarten to post-secondary settings. Required for TESOL certification program. EDCI633 Teaching for Cross Cultural Communication; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG. Techniques and content for teaching in foreign language classes, and English as a second language (ESL) classes. Research and evaluation of selected aspects of a culture as basis for creating teaching materials. EDCI634 Methods of Teaching ESOL; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG. This course presents a survey of the historical and current approaches, methods, and techniques of teaching English to speakers of other languages, from grammar to translation to audiolingual and communicative approaches. Additionally, successful classroom practices that address the needs of culturally diverse and language minority students will be analyzed. EDCI635 English Grammar for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Prerequisite: permission of department. English grammar and methods of teaching grammar for graduate, prospective and current teachers of English to speakers of other languages. Analysis of the major grammatical structures of American English. Discussion of the role of teaching grammar, and effective classroom methods and techniques for the English as a second/foreign language classroom. EDCI638 Teaching ESOL Reading and Writing in Secondary Content Areas; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG. EDCI642 Communications and the School Curriculum; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Curriculum development based on communication as the major vehicle for describing the learner's interactions with persons, knowledge, and materials in the classroom and school environment. EDCI643 Teaching Language Arts in Elementary Schools; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Analysis of current issues, trends, and problems in language-arts instruction. EDCI653 Developing Understanding in Mathematics; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Prerequisite: EDCI352 or or equivalent; exper. teaching math k-8. Instructional principles, research, and methods supporting the mathematical learning of all children and fostering mathematical understanding via the process standards of problem solving, reasoning, communication, connections, and representation. EDCI655 Teaching and Learning Algebra in the Middle School; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Prerequisite: Admission to M.A. or M.Ed. with concentration in Mathematics Education or permission of department. Designed to enhance middle school mathematics teachers' content and pedagogical knowledge in algebra. EDCI656 (PermReq) Teaching and Learning Statistics in the Middle School; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Prerequisite: Admission to M.Ed. or M.A. program in EDCI with concentration in Mathematical Education. Designed to enhance both the pedagogical and statistical/data analysis content knowledge of middle school mathematics teachers. EDCI661 (PermReq) Content Area Reading; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Prerequisite: EDCI 362 or EDCI 463 or equivalent. Research-based strategies for improving reading to learn in the content areas (K-12). EDCI662 Diagnostic Reading Assessment and Instruction; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG. Prerequisite: permission of department. Survey course in diagnostic reading assessment and instruction for graduate students not majoring in reading. EDCI680 (PermReq) Teaching and Learning in Secondary Schools; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Recent developments in educational thinking and practice which have effected the curriculum. EDCI687 (PermReq) Applications of Computers in Instructional Settings; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG. Review and analysis of instructional software and computer-based learning environments from the standpoint of teaching, learning, and design theories. Integration of instructional and tool software into classroom settings. EDCI688 (PermReq) Special Topics in Curriculum and Instruction: Special Topics in Adolescent Learning and Development; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG. EDCI689 (PermReq) Teaching Internship; (1-9 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. EDCI697 (PermReq) Embracing Diversity in Classroom Communities; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. 03 semester hours. The course aims to help students understand race, class, gender, and sexuality as systems of privilege, exclusion, marginalization, and the centrality of embracing diversity in the classroom communities to promote the success of all students. EDCI761 Advanced Clinical Practices in Reading Assessment; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Prerequisite: EDCI 665. Corequisite: EDCI 762. Clinical practicum in assessment focusing on strengths and needs in reading. Case report writing and conferences. EDCI762 Advanced Clinical Practices in Reading Instruction; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Prerequisite: EDCI 665. Corequisite: EDCI 761. Clinical practicum in instruction focusing on instructional techniques and diagnostic teaching. EDCI763 Reading, Cognition, and Instruction: Reading in the Content Areas I; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG. Provide secondary education students with an understanding of the interactive nature of the reading process, the use of search based instructional strategies, the relationship between vocabulary development and student concept development, the design of strategic reading instruction, the methods for assessing content area literacy, and the ability to plan instruction and communicate with students, parents, and allied professionals. EDCI764 (PermReq) Writing Across the Curriculum; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG. Emphasis on providing secondary education majors with an interdisciplinary foundation in current theory, research, and best practice focused on the teaching of writing across the curriculum, e.g.,art, English, foreign languages and TESOL, language arts, mathematics, music, sciences, and social studies. Exceptional student, inclusion, and diversity issues w ill be discussed. EDCI765 Prcesses and Acquisition of Reading; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. For Masters Certification Students only. Provide elementary education certification candidates with an understanding of reading acquisition and its underlying processes. Topics include language development in relation to reading development; the biological basis of this development; concepts in emergent literacy; models of reading acquisition and skilled reading; the effects of phonemic awareness in phonics on developing readers; factors in early childhood environments and in beginning literacy instruction that impact language and literacy achievement. EDCI776 Urban Education; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. This seminar provides students with a broad overview of urban education as a field of inquiry by examining the social context of urban schools, how transformative pedagogy is practiced and conceptualized as well as school reform. EDCI784 (PermReq) Teaching, Professional Development and School Change; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Examines currrent scholarship on professional development for K-12 teachers, characteristics of good professional development, and its relationship to teaching, learning, and school improvement. EDCI788 (PermReq) Selected Topics in Teacher Education; (1-3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number. EDCI788F Selected Topics in Teacher Education: Maryland Artist Teacher Institute; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. EDCI788L Selected Topics in Teacher Education: Crossing Borders, Breaking Boundaries: Summer Institute; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG. EDCI788N Selected Topics in Teacher Education: Teaching English(es) Around the World: Historical & Critical Perspectives; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG. Click here for more course information. EDCI790 Epistemological Bases of Education Research; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Prerequisite: EDCI780. A course on research theory, method, and design issues for doctoral students. Focuses on conceptual and theoretical understanding of methodology, the broad rand of both qualitative and quantitative methodologies, and underlying epistemologies as they apply to the study of schools, curriculum, teaching, and teacher education. EDCI798 Special Problems in Teacher Education; (1-3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number. EDCI799 Master's Thesis Research; (1-6 credits) Grade Method: REG. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number. EDCI888 Apprenticeship in Education; (1-8 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number. EDCI889 Internship in Education; (3-8 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number. EDCI898 Pre-Candidacy Research; (1-8 credits) Grade Method: REG/S-F. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number. EDCI899 Doctoral Dissertation Research; (1-8 credits) Grade Method: REG. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number.
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