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Twin Cities Campus

Teaching M.Ed.

Curriculum & Instruction
College of Education and Human Development
Link to a list of faculty for this program.
Contact Information
Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Minnesota, 125 Peik Hall, 159 Pillsbury Drive SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (612-625-4006; fax: 612-624-8277)
Email: CIinfo@umn.edu
Website: http://www.cehd.umn.edu/ci
  • Program Type: Master's
  • Requirements for this program are current for Fall 2023
  • Length of program in credits: 30 to 55
  • This program requires summer semesters for timely completion.
  • Degree: Master of Education
Along with the program-specific requirements listed below, please read the General Information section of this website for requirements that apply to all major fields.
The Master of Education and Initial Teaching License curriculum earn you a master's degree and will train you to become a teacher in your field of choice. The master of education (MEd)/initial licensure programs are for individuals with bachelor's degrees who want to become teachers. These graduate-level programs provide rigorous, professional teacher preparation in accordance with the Standards of Effective Practice for Teachers (SEPT) and content standards adopted by Minnesota’s Professional Licensing and Standards Board.
Accreditation
This program is accredited by Minnesota's Professional Education and Licensing Board
Program Delivery
  • via classroom (the majority of instruction is face-to-face)
Prerequisites for Admission
The preferred undergraduate GPA for admittance to the program is 3.00.
Other requirements to be completed before admission:
Each track has a subset of prerequisite courses. Prerequisite information can be found at: https://www.cehd.umn.edu/ci/admissions/med-teaching-prerequisites/ A transcript review is recommended to be completed before applying in order to determine if an applicant is ready to apply or should continue to work on additional prerequisite coursework. Unofficial transcript(s) can be submitted for evaluation to the attention of the appropriate C&I MEd advisor. Adviser information is available with the current requirement and coursework link provided for each track. Students with international coursework must arrange for a transcript evaluation from a foreign transcript evaluation service. Submit the following materials using the University’s online application system: • Unofficial transcripts from all schools attended, even if a degree was not earned • Resume • Essay • One letter of recommendation • Extenuating circumstances statement (if applicable)
International applicants must submit score(s) from one of the following tests:
  • TOEFL
    • Internet Based - Total Score: 79
    • Internet Based - Writing Score: 21
    • Internet Based - Reading Score: 19
    • Paper Based - Total Score: 550
  • IELTS
    • Total Score: 6.5
  • MELAB
    • Final score: 80
The preferred English language test is Test of English as Foreign Language.
Key to test abbreviations (TOEFL, IELTS, MELAB).
For an online application or for more information about graduate education admissions, see the General Information section of this website.
Program Requirements
Plan C: Plan C requires 30 to 55 major credits and up to credits outside the major. There is no final exam.
This program may be completed with a minor.
Use of 4xxx courses toward program requirements is permitted under certain conditions with adviser approval.
Language Requirement: For specific language sub-plans only
A minimum GPA of 2.80 is required for students to remain in good standing.
Program Sub-plans
Students are required to complete one of the following sub-plans.
Students may complete the program with more than one sub-plan.
Arts in Education
This sub-plan is limited to students completing the program under Plan C.
The Arts in Education track is multidimensional, focusing on design and implementation of conceptually significant performing and visual arts education curricula grounded in current theory, knowledge of emerging technologies, understanding of equity-based practices in respective arts disciplines. Graduates of the program will be prepared to teach in diverse classrooms across a scope of K-12 learning environments.
The University of Minnesota does not award licensure. Minnesota’s Professional Licensing and Standards Board determines licensure for the state of Minnesota for PreK-12 visual arts, dance, or theatre arts programs. Upon satisfactory completion of coursework and program requirements, the Office of Teacher Education can recommend the student for state licensure. Required licensure coursework is subject to change. Please visit [https://www.cehd.umn.edu/ci/programs/masters/teaching-arts-education/] for current requirements and coursework.
Arts in Education (32 credits)
Summer Session (11 credits)
Take the following courses:
CI 5049 - Digital Media & Technology Integration: Arts Education Theory & Practice (3.0 cr)
CI 5078 - Application of Aesthetic Theory in Education (2.0 cr)
CI 5102 - Culture, Schools, & Communities: Human Relations I (3.0 cr)
CI 5163 - Child and Adolescent Development for Teaching and Learning I (1.0 cr)
CI 5617 - Academic Language and English Learners I (1.0 cr)
EPSY 5015 - Teaching Students with Special Needs in Inclusive Settings (1.0 cr)
Fall Session (14 credits)
Take the following courses:
CI 5065 - Improving Arts Programs in the Schools (3.0 cr)
CI 5069 - Curriculum Innovations in Arts Education (3.0 cr)
CI 5075 - The Social, Historical and Cultural Foundations of Arts Education (3.0 cr)
CI 5103 - Culture, Schools, & Communities: Human Relations II (1.0 cr)
CI 5164 - Child and Adolescent Development for Teaching and Learning II (2.0 cr)
CI 5618 - Academic Language and English Learners II (1.0 cr)
EPSY 5016 - Teaching Students with Special Needs in Inclusive Settings (1.0 cr)
Spring Session (4 credits)
Take each of the following courses for 2 credits:
CI 5008 - Theory and Practice of Arts Teaching (1.0-2.0 cr)
CI 5452 - Reading in the Content Areas for Initial Licensure Candidates (1.0-2.0 cr)
MEd Completion Coursework (3 credits)
Take the following course for 3 credits:
CI 5050 - Issues in Art Education (1.0-4.0 cr)
Elementary
This sub-plan is limited to students completing the program under Plan C.
The Elementary Education track is designed to help students become inquiring, analytical, and reflective professional educators who can help students succeed in school. The program seeks to develop thoughtful practitioners who are engaged with children, communities, colleagues, and the field of education as advocates and leaders.
The University of Minnesota does not award licensure. Minnesota’s Professional Licensing and Standards Board determines licensure for the state of Minnesota in K-6 elementary teaching. Upon satisfactory completion of coursework and program requirements, the Office of Teacher Education can recommend the student for state licensure. Required licensure coursework is subject to change. Please visit [https://www.cehd.umn.edu/ci/programs/masters/teaching-elementary-education/] for current requirements and coursework.
Elementary Education sub-plans
Elementary Education (54.5 credits)
The 54.5-credit track is for students with a bachelor’s degree other than the University of Minnesota Elementary Education Foundations degree.
May Session (6 credits)
Take the following courses:
CI 5111 - Introduction to Elementary School Teaching (3.0 cr)
EPSY 5001 - Learning, Cognition, and Assessment (3.0 cr)
Summer Session (9.5 credits)
Take the following courses:
CI 5307 - Technology for Teaching and Learning (1.5 cr)
CPSY 5301 - Advanced Developmental Psychology (3.0 cr)
EPSY 5017 - Teaching Exceptional Students in General Education Classrooms (2.0 cr)
OLPD 5005 - School and Society (2.0 cr)
OLPD 5009 - Human Relations: Applied Skills for School and Society (1.0 cr)
Fall Session (21 credits)
Take the following courses:
CI 5283 - Field Experience: Applying Instructional Methods in the Elementary Classroom (3.0 cr)
CI 5425 - Reading Instruction in the Elementary Grades (3.0 cr)
CI 5426 - Language Arts Instruction in the Elementary Grades (3.0 cr)
CI 5502 - Science Instruction in the Elementary Grades (3.0 cr)
CI 5645 - Teaching English Learners in English-medium classrooms (3.0 cr)
CI 5702 - Social Studies Instruction in the Elementary Grades (3.0 cr)
CI 5822 - Mathematics Instruction in the Elementary Grades (3.0 cr)
Spring Session (18 credits)
Take the following courses:
CI 5285 - Clinical Experience in Elementary School Teaching (12.0 cr)
CI 5286 - Student Teaching Seminar: Elementary Education (3.0 cr)
CI 5287 - Capstone Project: Improvement of Teaching in Elementary and Pre-Kindergarten Schools (3.0 cr)
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Elementary Education - U of M BS Degree Transitioners (39 credits)
The 39-credit track is for students with a University of Minnesota Elementary Education Foundations BS degree.
Fall Session (21 credits)
Take the following courses:
CI 5283 - Field Experience: Applying Instructional Methods in the Elementary Classroom (3.0 cr)
CI 5425 - Reading Instruction in the Elementary Grades (3.0 cr)
CI 5426 - Language Arts Instruction in the Elementary Grades (3.0 cr)
CI 5502 - Science Instruction in the Elementary Grades (3.0 cr)
CI 5645 - Teaching English Learners in English-medium classrooms (3.0 cr)
CI 5702 - Social Studies Instruction in the Elementary Grades (3.0 cr)
CI 5822 - Mathematics Instruction in the Elementary Grades (3.0 cr)
Spring Session (18 credits)
Take the following courses:
CI 5285 - Clinical Experience in Elementary School Teaching (12.0 cr)
CI 5286 - Student Teaching Seminar: Elementary Education (3.0 cr)
CI 5287 - Capstone Project: Improvement of Teaching in Elementary and Pre-Kindergarten Schools (3.0 cr)
English
This sub-plan is limited to students completing the program under Plan C.
The English Education track is designed to develop inquiring, analytical, and reflective professional educators prepared to teach in the classroom. Our students explore the personal and political nature of reading, communication, language, and literacies. Instructors use critical literacy as a catalyst for examining how educational experiences are shaped by race, language, culture, identity, and codes of power.
The University of Minnesota does not award licensure. Minnesota’s Professional Licensing and Standards Board determines licensure for the state of Minnesota in 5-12 middle and high school English education. Upon satisfactory completion of coursework and program requirements, the Office of Teacher Education can recommend the student for state licensure. Required licensure coursework is subject to change. Please visit [https://www.cehd.umn.edu/ci/programs/masters/teaching-english-education/] for current requirements and coursework.
English Education (36.5 credits)
Summer Session (7.5 credits)
Take the following courses:
CI 5102 - Culture, Schools, & Communities: Human Relations I (3.0 cr)
CI 5163 - Child and Adolescent Development for Teaching and Learning I (1.0 cr)
CI 5307 - Technology for Teaching and Learning (1.5 cr)
CI 5617 - Academic Language and English Learners I (1.0 cr)
EPSY 5015 - Teaching Students with Special Needs in Inclusive Settings (1.0 cr)
Fall Session (14 credits)
Take the following courses. Take CI 5441 for 3 credits.
CI 5103 - Culture, Schools, & Communities: Human Relations II (1.0 cr)
CI 5164 - Child and Adolescent Development for Teaching and Learning II (2.0 cr)
CI 5441 - Teaching Literature in the Secondary School (2.0-3.0 cr)
CI 5451 - Teaching Reading in Middle and Secondary Grades (3.0 cr)
CI 5471 - Clinical Experience in Teaching Secondary English (3.0 cr)
CI 5618 - Academic Language and English Learners II (1.0 cr)
EPSY 5016 - Teaching Students with Special Needs in Inclusive Settings (1.0 cr)
Spring Session (6 credits)
Take the following courses:
CI 5461 - Teaching Composition in the Secondary School (3.0 cr)
CI 5481 - Developments in Teaching English and Speech (3.0 cr)
MEd Completion Coursework (9 credits)
Select 9 credits from the following courses. If selected, take CI 5150 or 5410 for 3 credits. CI 5485 is recommended when CI 5484 is selected.
CI 5150 - Curriculum Topics (1.0-4.0 cr)
CI 5156 - Popular Culture, Teaching, and Learning (3.0 cr)
CI 5404 - Multicultural Literature for Children and Adolescents (3.0 cr)
CI 5422 - Teaching Writing in Schools (3.0 cr)
CI 5442 - Adolescent Literature, Youth Activism and Climate Change Literacy (3.0 cr)
CI 5464 - The Politics of Literacy and Race in Schools (3.0 cr)
CI 5472 - Teaching Critical Media Analysis in Schools (3.0 cr)
CI 5474 - New Literacies Frameworks and Instruction: Digital Texts and Digital Reading (3.0 cr)
CI 5475 - Teaching Digital Writing (3.0 cr)
CI 5484 - Improving Secondary English Language Arts Instruction: Part I (1.5 cr)
CI 5485 - Improving Secondary English Language Arts Instruction: Part II (1.5 cr)
CI 5641 - Language, Culture, and Education (3.0 cr)
Mathematics
This sub-plan is limited to students completing the program under Plan C.
The Mathematics Education track is designed to help future teachers inquire and reflect on how children learn and use this knowledge to design instructional experiences that challenge, engage, and empower. Candidates will work in a variety of school settings with experienced teachers to make connections between educational strategies discussed in coursework and students. Our graduates value an ethos of vulnerability, recognizing their knowledge and pedagogical skills as wide-ranging, ever-evolving, and in collaboration with their students.
The University of Minnesota does not award licensure. Minnesota’s Professional Licensing and Standards Board determines licensure for the state of Minnesota in 5-12 middle and high school Math education. Upon satisfactory completion of coursework and program requirements, the Office of Teacher Education can recommend the student for state licensure. Required licensure coursework is subject to change. Please visit [https://www.cehd.umn.edu/ci/programs/masters/teaching-math-education/] for current requirements and coursework.
Mathematics Education (34.5 credits)
Summer Session (13.5 credits)
Take the following courses:
CI 5102 - Culture, Schools, & Communities: Human Relations I (3.0 cr)
CI 5307 - Technology for Teaching and Learning (1.5 cr)
CI 5617 - Academic Language and English Learners I (1.0 cr)
EPSY 5001 - Learning, Cognition, and Assessment (3.0 cr)
EPSY 5017 - Teaching Exceptional Students in General Education Classrooms (2.0 cr)
MTHE 5011 - Arithmetic Structures in School Mathematics (3.0 cr)
Fall Session (10 credits)
Take the following courses. Take CI 5452 for 2 credits.
CI 5103 - Culture, Schools, & Communities: Human Relations II (1.0 cr)
CI 5452 - Reading in the Content Areas for Initial Licensure Candidates (1.0-2.0 cr)
CI 5618 - Academic Language and English Learners II (1.0 cr)
MTHE 5021 - Algebraic Structures in School Mathematics (3.0 cr)
MTHE 5115 - Applications of Teaching Mathematics (3.0 cr)
Spring Session (3 credits)
Take the following course:
MTHE 5031 - Geometric Structures in School Mathematics (3.0 cr)
MEd Completion Coursework (8 credits)
Take the following courses:
MTHE 5314 - Teaching and Learning Mathematics (3.0 cr)
MTHE 5366 - Technology-Assisted Mathematics Instruction (3.0 cr)
Select credits from the following, in consultation with the advisor, to complete minimum credit requirements.
MTHE 5171 - Teaching Problem Solving (3.0 cr)
MTHE 5172 - Teaching Probability and Statistics (3.0 cr)
MTHE 5355 - Mathematics for Diverse Learners (3.0 cr)
MTHE 5993 - Directed Studies in Mathematics Education (2.0 cr)
Science
This sub-plan is limited to students completing the program under Plan C.
Science teachers are in high demand. The Science track will prepare students to step into the classroom ready to begin teaching in diverse classrooms. The program offers a mix of theory and practice, to prepare teachers to provide equitable student-centered science instruction for all students.
The University of Minnesota does not award licensure. Minnesota’s Professional Licensing and Standards Board determines licensure for the state of Minnesota in 9-12 high school and 5-8 general science education. Upon satisfactory completion of coursework and program requirements, the Office of Teacher Education can recommend the student for state licensure. Required licensure coursework is subject to change. Please visit [https://www.cehd.umn.edu/ci/programs/masters/teaching-science-education/] for current requirements and coursework.
Science Education (39.5 credits)
Summer Session (12 credits)
Take the following courses:
CI 5102 - Culture, Schools, & Communities: Human Relations I (3.0 cr)
CI 5530 - Secondary Science Methods I (3.0 cr)
CI 5617 - Academic Language and English Learners I (1.0 cr)
EPSY 5001 - Learning, Cognition, and Assessment (3.0 cr)
EPSY 5017 - Teaching Exceptional Students in General Education Classrooms (2.0 cr)
Fall Session (15.5 credits)
Take the following courses. Take CI 5452 for 2 credits.
CI 5103 - Culture, Schools, & Communities: Human Relations II (1.0 cr)
CI 5307 - Technology for Teaching and Learning (1.5 cr)
CI 5452 - Reading in the Content Areas for Initial Licensure Candidates (1.0-2.0 cr)
CI 5531 - Secondary Science Methods II (3.0 cr)
CI 5541 - Teaching History and Nature of Science (3.0 cr)
CI 5596 - Clinical Experience in Middle School Science (4.0 cr)
CI 5618 - Academic Language and English Learners II (1.0 cr)
Spring Session (3 credits)
Take the following course:
CI 5532 - Secondary Science Methods III (3.0 cr)
MEd Completion Coursework (9 credits)
Select 9 credits from the following. If CI 5540 is selected it must be taken for 3 credits.
CI 5533 - Current Developments in Science Teaching (3.0 cr)
CI 5535 - Foundations of Science Education (3.0 cr)
CI 5536 - Equity, Policy, and Assessment in Science Education (3.0 cr)
CI 5540 - Special Topics: Science Education (1.0-4.0 cr)
CI 5551 - Reflecting on Science Classroom Practices I (1.5 cr)
CI 5552 - Reflecting on Science Classroom Practices II (1.5 cr)
Second Language Education
This sub-plan is limited to students completing the program under Plan C.
The Second Language Education track integrates the fields of world languages and English as a Second Language (ESL), enabling students studying in either field to learn from each other. Theory and practice are also linked through concurrent coursework and student teaching, a nationally recognized approach to teacher education. In addition to ESL, students can study one or more world/classical languages including Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Ojibwe, Classical Greek and Latin, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish.
The University of Minnesota does not award licensure. Minnesota’s Professional Licensing and Standards Board determines licensure for the state of Minnesota in K-12 second language education. Upon satisfactory completion of coursework and program requirements, the Office of Teacher Education can recommend the student for state licensure. Required licensure coursework is subject to change. Please visit [https://www.cehd.umn.edu/ci/programs/masters/teaching-second-language-education/] for current requirements and coursework.
Second Language Education (33.5 credits)
Summer Session (14 credits)
Take the following courses. Take CI 5452 and CI 5631 for 1 credit.
CI 5102 - Culture, Schools, & Communities: Human Relations I (3.0 cr)
CI 5163 - Child and Adolescent Development for Teaching and Learning I (1.0 cr)
CI 5452 - Reading in the Content Areas for Initial Licensure Candidates (1.0-2.0 cr)
CI 5620 - Introduction to Second Language Acquisition for Language Teachers (3.0 cr)
CI 5631 - Second Language Curriculum Development and Assessment (1.0-3.0 cr)
EPSY 5015 - Teaching Students with Special Needs in Inclusive Settings (1.0 cr)
LING 5001 - Introduction to Linguistics (4.0 cr)
Fall Session (12.5 credits)
CI 5631 will be required again in Fall session, this time for 2 credits.
CI 5103 - Culture, Schools, & Communities: Human Relations II (1.0 cr)
CI 5164 - Child and Adolescent Development for Teaching and Learning II (2.0 cr)
CI 5307 - Technology for Teaching and Learning (1.5 cr)
CI 5361 - Teaching and Learning with the Internet (2.0-3.0 cr)
CI 5632 - Literacy and Language Development in Second Language Classrooms (3.0 cr)
CI 5646 - Grammar for Language Teachers (3.0 cr)
Spring Session (7 credits)
Take the following courses:
CI 5634 - Content-Based Instruction in Second Language Settings (3.0 cr)
CI 5635 - Culture and Diversity in Second Language Classrooms (3.0 cr)
EPSY 5016 - Teaching Students with Special Needs in Inclusive Settings (1.0 cr)
Second Language Education for Working Professionals
This sub-plan is limited to students completing the program under Plan C.
The Second Language Education (SLE) for working professionals track is designed for practicing teachers in the areas of ESL and/or any of the following 14 languages: Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Ojibwe, Classical Greek and Latin, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish. This part-time program provides educators with the specific knowledge base and skill set needed to be a K-12 teacher of ESL or a world language.
The University of Minnesota does not award licensure. Minnesota’s Professional Licensing and Standards Board determines licensure for the state of Minnesota in ESL or a world/classical language license. Upon satisfactory completion of coursework and program requirements, the Office of Teacher Education can recommend the student for state licensure. Required licensure coursework is subject to change. Please visit [https://www.cehd.umn.edu/ci/programs/masters/teaching-second-language-education-professionals/] for current requirements and coursework.
ESL or World Languages
SLE Working Professionals - ESL (37.5 to 44.5 credits)
100 hours of experience in schools across elementary, middle and high school language classrooms which must be completed before practicum and student teaching.
M.Ed. Required Coursework (5.5 credits)
Take the following courses. Take CI 5452 for 1 credit.
CI 5307 - Technology for Teaching and Learning (1.5 cr)
CI 5452 - Reading in the Content Areas for Initial Licensure Candidates (1.0-2.0 cr)
OLPD 5005 - School and Society (2.0 cr)
OLPD 5009 - Human Relations: Applied Skills for School and Society (1.0 cr)
Special Education Focus (2 credits)
Select EPSY 5017 or both EPSY 5015 and EPSY 5016 to complete the 2-credit requirement.
EPSY 5015 - Teaching Students with Special Needs in Inclusive Settings (1.0 cr)
EPSY 5016 - Teaching Students with Special Needs in Inclusive Settings (1.0 cr)
EPSY 5017 - Teaching Exceptional Students in General Education Classrooms (2.0 cr)
Psychology Focus (3 to 6 credits)
Select EPSY 5001 and CPSY 5301 for a total of 6 credits, or CI 5163 and 5164 for a total of 3 credits.
CI 5163 - Child and Adolescent Development for Teaching and Learning I (1.0 cr)
CI 5164 - Child and Adolescent Development for Teaching and Learning II (2.0 cr)
CPSY 5301 - Advanced Developmental Psychology (3.0 cr)
EPSY 5001 - Learning, Cognition, and Assessment (3.0 cr)
Additional Required Experiences/Coursework (27 to 31 credits)
Take the following courses. The number of credits required for CI 5697 will be dependent upon the current teaching position.
CI 5620 - Introduction to Second Language Acquisition for Language Teachers (3.0 cr)
CI 5642 - Assessing English Learners (3.0 cr)
CI 5646 - Grammar for Language Teachers (3.0 cr)
CI 5651 - Foundations of Second Languages and Cultures Education (3.0 cr)
CI 5656 - Teaching Literacy in Second Language Classrooms (3.0 cr)
CI 5657 - Teaching Speaking and Listening in Second Language Classrooms (3.0 cr)
CI 5662 - Second Language Curriculum Design (3.0 cr)
CI 5697 - Additional Licensure Field experience: Teaching ESL and World Languages (2.0-6.0 cr)
LING 5001 - Introduction to Linguistics (4.0 cr)
-OR-
SLE Working Professionals - World Languages (33.5 to 39.5 credits)
MEd Required Coursework (5.5 credits)
Take the following courses. Take CI 5452 for 1 credit.
CI 5307 - Technology for Teaching and Learning (1.5 cr)
CI 5452 - Reading in the Content Areas for Initial Licensure Candidates (1.0-2.0 cr)
OLPD 5005 - School and Society (2.0 cr)
OLPD 5009 - Human Relations: Applied Skills for School and Society (1.0 cr)
Special Education Focus (2 credits)
Select EPSY 5017 or both EPSY 5015 and EPSY 5016 to complete the 2-credit requirement.
EPSY 5015 - Teaching Students with Special Needs in Inclusive Settings (1.0 cr)
EPSY 5016 - Teaching Students with Special Needs in Inclusive Settings (1.0 cr)
EPSY 5017 - Teaching Exceptional Students in General Education Classrooms (2.0 cr)
Psychology Focus (3 to 6 credits)
Select EPSY 5001 and CPSY 5301 for a total of 6 credits, or CI 5163 and 5164 for a total of 3 credits.
CI 5163 - Child and Adolescent Development for Teaching and Learning I (1.0 cr)
CI 5164 - Child and Adolescent Development for Teaching and Learning II (2.0 cr)
CPSY 5301 - Advanced Developmental Psychology (3.0 cr)
EPSY 5001 - Learning, Cognition, and Assessment (3.0 cr)
Additional Required Experiences/Coursework (23 to 26 credits)
Take the following courses. The number of credits required for CI 5696 will be dependent upon current teaching position.
CI 5619 - Teaching World Languages and Cultures in Elementary Settings (2.0 cr)
CI 5651 - Foundations of Second Languages and Cultures Education (3.0 cr)
CI 5656 - Teaching Literacy in Second Language Classrooms (3.0 cr)
CI 5657 - Teaching Speaking and Listening in Second Language Classrooms (3.0 cr)
CI 5696 - Initial Licensure Field experience: Teaching ESL and World Languages (2.0-6.0 cr)
CI 5624 - Content-based Language Instruction and Curriculum Development (2.0 cr)
or CI 5662 - Second Language Curriculum Design (3.0 cr)
If CI 5660 Special Topics is selected, take STARTALK for Mandarin Chinese for 2 credits.
CI 5621 - Culture as the Core in the Second Language Classroom (2.0 cr)
or CI 5641 - Language, Culture, and Education (3.0 cr)
or CI 5660 - Special Topics in the Teaching of Second Languages and Cultures (1.0-4.0 cr)
CI 5625 - Assessing Language Learners? Communication Skills via Authentic Communicative Performance Tasks (2.0 cr)
or CI 5658 - Language Testing and Assessment (3.0 cr)
Social Studies
This sub-plan is limited to students completing the program under Plan C.
The Social Studies track is designed to foster a community of support for all students in the program. Through a lens of social justice education, students will join a diverse cohort of candidates who want to study pedagogy and educational approaches as they relate to contemporary social studies instruction. You will be paired with experienced teachers to complete your field experience and will enter the classroom prepared to teach.
The University of Minnesota does not award licensure. Minnesota’s Professional Licensing and Standards Board determines licensure for the state of Minnesota in 5-12 middle and high school Social Studies education. Upon satisfactory completion of coursework and program requirements, the Office of Teacher Education can recommend the student for state licensure. Required licensure coursework is subject to change. Please visit [https://www.cehd.umn.edu/ci/programs/masters/teaching-social-studies-education/] for current requirements and coursework.
Social Studies Education (32.5 credits)
Summer Session (14 credits)
Take the following courses. Take CI 5452 for 2 credits.
CI 5102 - Culture, Schools, & Communities: Human Relations I (3.0 cr)
CI 5163 - Child and Adolescent Development for Teaching and Learning I (1.0 cr)
CI 5452 - Reading in the Content Areas for Initial Licensure Candidates (1.0-2.0 cr)
CI 5617 - Academic Language and English Learners I (1.0 cr)
CI 5741 - Introduction to Social Studies Education (3.0 cr)
CI 5743 - The Social Sciences and the Social Studies (3.0 cr)
EPSY 5015 - Teaching Students with Special Needs in Inclusive Settings (1.0 cr)
Fall Session (12.5 credits)
Take the following courses:
CI 5103 - Culture, Schools, & Communities: Human Relations II (1.0 cr)
CI 5164 - Child and Adolescent Development for Teaching and Learning II (2.0 cr)
CI 5307 - Technology for Teaching and Learning (1.5 cr)
CI 5618 - Academic Language and English Learners II (1.0 cr)
CI 5742 - Advanced Methods of Teaching the Social Studies (3.0 cr)
CI 5745 - Engaging Youth With Social Studies Texts (3.0 cr)
EPSY 5016 - Teaching Students with Special Needs in Inclusive Settings (1.0 cr)
Spring Session (3 credits)
Take the following course:
CI 5744 - Seminar: Reflecting on Professional Development in Social Studies Education (3.0 cr)
Elective (3 credits)
Select one of the following courses:
CI 5746 - Global and Multicultural Education in the Secondary Classroom (3.0 cr)
CI 5762 - Developing Civic Discourse in the Social Studies (3.0 cr)
Alternative Pathway: Elementary Education
This sub-plan is limited to students completing the program under Plan C.
The Alternative Pathway: Elementary Education track requires 36 credits. The University of Minnesota does not award licensure. Teaching licenses are granted by the Minnesota Professional Licensing Standards Board (PELSB). For more information on PELSB, please visit https://mn.gov/pelsb/. For the Minnesota Grow Your Own Teachers program, please visit https://www.cehd.umn.edu/teaching/grow/teacher/ for current licensure requirements and coursework. For the Dual Language and Immersion Licensure program, please visit https://www.cehd.umn.edu/ci/programs/masters/teaching-second-language-education-dual-language/ for current licensure requirements and coursework.
Coursework (36 credits)
Take the following courses. Take 1 credit of CI 5980 four times for a total of 4 credits. Take CI 5452 for 1 credit. MNGOT students take CI 5186 two times for a total of 6 credits. DLI students take CI 5672 and CI 5676.
CI 5980 - Clinical Experiences for K-12 Teaching (1.0-4.0 cr)
CI 5981 - Introduction to Equity-Based Pedagogy (1.0 cr)
CI 5982 - Enacting Equity-Based Pedagogy (2.0 cr)
CI 5983 - Equity-Based Pedagogy/Advocacy (1.0 cr)
CI 5984 - Planning Design and Management (1.0 cr)
CI 5985 - Academic Language and English Learners in the Content Areas (1.0 cr)
CI 5986 - Foundations of Special Education (1.0 cr)
CI 5987 - Child and Adolescent Development for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment (1.0 cr)
CI 5988 - Clinical Experience: Improvement of Teaching (2.0 cr)
CI 5452 - Reading in the Content Areas for Initial Licensure Candidates (1.0-2.0 cr)
CI 5211 - Elementary Education Content and Pedagogy I (4.0 cr)
CI 5212 - Elementary Education Content and Pedagogy II (3.0 cr)
CI 5213 - Elementary Education Content and Pedagogy III (3.0 cr)
CI 5214 - Elementary Education Content and Pedagogy IV (3.0 cr)
CI 5215 - Elementary Education Content and Pedagogy V (2.0 cr)
CI 5186 - School-Related Projects (1.0-4.0 cr)
CI 5672 - Language-Focused Instructional Practices and Strategies for Dual Language/Immersion Classrooms (3.0 cr)
CI 5676 - Biliteracy Development in Dual Language/Immersion Classrooms (3.0 cr)
Alternative Pathway: Secondary Mathematics
This sub-plan is limited to students completing the program under Plan C.
ALERT: the Teaching M.Ed.-Alt Pathway: Secondary Mathematics program is currently suspended. We are not accepting applications at this time.
The University of Minnesota does not award licensure. Teaching licenses are granted by the Minnesota Professional Licensing Standards Board (PELSB). For more information on PELSB, please visit https://mn.gov/pelsb/. For the Minnesota Grow Your Own Teachers program, please visit https://www.cehd.umn.edu/teaching/grow/teacher/ for current licensure requirements and coursework. The Alternative Pathway: Secondary Mathematics track requires 36 credits.
Coursework (36 credits)
Take the following courses. Take 1 credit of CI 5980 4 times for a total of 4 credits. Take CI 5452 for 1 credit. Take CI 5186 2 times for a total of 6 credits. The remaining credits should be taken in consultation with your faculty adviser.
CI 5980 - Clinical Experiences for K-12 Teaching (1.0-4.0 cr)
CI 5981 - Introduction to Equity-Based Pedagogy (1.0 cr)
CI 5982 - Enacting Equity-Based Pedagogy (2.0 cr)
CI 5983 - Equity-Based Pedagogy/Advocacy (1.0 cr)
CI 5984 - Planning Design and Management (1.0 cr)
CI 5985 - Academic Language and English Learners in the Content Areas (1.0 cr)
CI 5986 - Foundations of Special Education (1.0 cr)
CI 5987 - Child and Adolescent Development for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment (1.0 cr)
CI 5988 - Clinical Experience: Improvement of Teaching (2.0 cr)
CI 5452 - Reading in the Content Areas for Initial Licensure Candidates (1.0-2.0 cr)
CI 5511 - Introduction to Secondary Science: Laboratory-based Instruction (4.0 cr)
CI 5186 - School-Related Projects (1.0-4.0 cr)
Alternative Pathway: Secondary Science
This sub-plan is limited to students completing the program under Plan C.
ALERT: the Teaching M.Ed.-Alt Pathway: Secondary Science program is currently suspended. We are not accepting applications at this time.
The University of Minnesota does not award licensure. Teaching licenses are granted by the Minnesota Professional Licensing Standards Board (PELSB). For more information on PELSB, please visit https://mn.gov/pelsb/. For the Minnesota Grow Your Own Teachers program, please visit https://www.cehd.umn.edu/teaching/grow/teacher/ for current licensure requirements and coursework. The Alternative Pathway: Secondary Science track requires 36 credits.
Coursework (36 credits)
Take the following courses. Take 1 credit of CI 5980 4 times for a total of 4 credits. Take CI 5452 for 1 credit. Take CI 5186 two times for a total of 6 credits.
CI 5980 - Clinical Experiences for K-12 Teaching (1.0-4.0 cr)
CI 5981 - Introduction to Equity-Based Pedagogy (1.0 cr)
CI 5982 - Enacting Equity-Based Pedagogy (2.0 cr)
CI 5983 - Equity-Based Pedagogy/Advocacy (1.0 cr)
CI 5984 - Planning Design and Management (1.0 cr)
CI 5985 - Academic Language and English Learners in the Content Areas (1.0 cr)
CI 5986 - Foundations of Special Education (1.0 cr)
CI 5987 - Child and Adolescent Development for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment (1.0 cr)
CI 5988 - Clinical Experience: Improvement of Teaching (2.0 cr)
CI 5452 - Reading in the Content Areas for Initial Licensure Candidates (1.0-2.0 cr)
CI 5511 - Introduction to Secondary Science: Laboratory-based Instruction (4.0 cr)
CI 5512 - Secondary Science Methods: Understanding the Nature of Science (3.0 cr)
CI 5513 - Secondary Science Methods: Equity in Science Teaching (3.0 cr)
CI 5514 - Secondary Science Methods: The Science Learning Environment (2.0 cr)
CI 5515 - Secondary Science Methods: Developing Adaptive Expertise (3.0 cr)
CI 5186 - School-Related Projects (1.0-4.0 cr)
Alternative Pathway: English as a Second Language
This sub-plan is limited to students completing the program under Plan C.
The University of Minnesota does not award licensure. Teaching licenses are granted by the Minnesota Professional Licensing Standards Board (PELSB). For more information on PELSB, please visit https://mn.gov/pelsb/. For the Minnesota Grow Your Own Teachers program, please visit https://www.cehd.umn.edu/teaching/grow/teacher/ for current licensure requirements and coursework. The Alternative Pathway: English as a Second Language track requires 36 credits.
Coursework (36 credits)
Take the following courses. Take 1 credit of CI 5980 4 times for a total of 4 credits. Take CI 5452 for 1 credit. Take CI 5186 two times for a total of 6 credits.
CI 5980 - Clinical Experiences for K-12 Teaching (1.0-4.0 cr)
CI 5981 - Introduction to Equity-Based Pedagogy (1.0 cr)
CI 5982 - Enacting Equity-Based Pedagogy (2.0 cr)
CI 5983 - Equity-Based Pedagogy/Advocacy (1.0 cr)
CI 5984 - Planning Design and Management (1.0 cr)
CI 5985 - Academic Language and English Learners in the Content Areas (1.0 cr)
CI 5986 - Foundations of Special Education (1.0 cr)
CI 5987 - Child and Adolescent Development for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment (1.0 cr)
CI 5988 - Clinical Experience: Improvement of Teaching (2.0 cr)
CI 5452 - Reading in the Content Areas for Initial Licensure Candidates (1.0-2.0 cr)
CI 5622 - Exploring Learner Language: Puzzles and Tools for the Classroom (2.0 cr)
CI 5611 - Principles of Linguistics (2.0 cr)
CI 5612 - ESL Methods for Multilingual Development (3.0 cr)
CI 5613 - Testing and Assessment for English Learners (3.0 cr)
CI 5614 - Curriculum and Materials Development for English Learners (3.0 cr)
CI 5615 - Academic English for English Learners: Planning, Assessment, Instruction (3.0 cr)
CI 5186 - School-Related Projects (1.0-4.0 cr)
 
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CI 5049 - Digital Media & Technology Integration: Arts Education Theory & Practice
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Summer
This course explores issues in the visual and performing arts regarding the current and potential use of technology and digital media in P-12 arts classrooms. Through readings, discussions, artistic production, academic writing, and collaboration, you will understand the use and integration of technology in P-12 arts classrooms as pedagogical tools; the function of scaffolding students’ use of digital media as part of 21st century arts teaching and learning; various technological supports for student learning and artistic production; specific digital media theories, pedagogies, and content knowledge; the use of technology in designing, sharing, and conducting lessons; issues concerning the assessment and exhibition of student works; and practical issues of using technology for teaching in and through the arts.
CI 5078 - Application of Aesthetic Theory in Education
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Spring & Summer
The course explores: •contemporary theories of arts •psychological and philosophical foundations •an overview of children's production of and responses to visual and performing arts
CI 5102 - Culture, Schools, & Communities: Human Relations I
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Summer
This course provides teacher candidates with the knowledge and skills to address social and cultural dimensions of education. Students explore a wide range of challenges and dilemmas facing contemporary educators in the U.S. and in other global locations. They examine original research and theory from the social sciences, and learn how research and theories have informed various educational policies and actual approaches to teaching. The course begins with a focused study of how U.S. educational history has been shaped by competing norms and purposes. It then moves into the role of philosophy in defining those purposes, and shaping actual approaches to teaching. The course then shifts to examine multiple dimensions of humanity including race, culture, gender, gender orientation, class, worldview, perception, and language in and out of school. These concepts lay the foundation for study of cultural transmission and acquisition, the learning preferences of diverse students, and ultimately, culturally relevant pedagogy, cultural competence, and cultural intelligence. Throughout the course, teacher candidates will consider their own positionality and what that means for their practice. Learning experiences are made up of class meetings involving speakers, simulations, and multi-media presentations; readings; small group discussions, activities, exercises and projects.
CI 5163 - Child and Adolescent Development for Teaching and Learning I
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall & Summer
Attending to constant transitions/development in which children and adolescents negotiate their road to adulthood. How to foster learning/positive development. prereq: Enrolled in teacher initial licensure program
CI 5617 - Academic Language and English Learners I
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Course Equivalencies: CI 5644/EdHD 5017/EdHD 5018
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Summer
Working with English learners and other linguistically diverse students across content areas to develop academic language proficiency. prereq: Enrolled in teacher initial licensure program
EPSY 5015 - Teaching Students with Special Needs in Inclusive Settings
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Summer
Areas of exceptionality defined in federal/state regulations. Historical perspectives, definitions, etiology, characteristics, needs, and service delivery systems. Collaborating with special education personnel. prereq: Enrolled in a teacher initial licensure program
CI 5065 - Improving Arts Programs in the Schools
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
This course provides students with an exploration of issues in visual and performing art instruction, including teaching methods and evaluation, philosophical frameworks of pedagogy, and institutional issues concerning arts programs in middle and high schools; social and cultural structures of schooling, practical issues, and teaching arts.
CI 5069 - Curriculum Innovations in Arts Education
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
This course provides students with an examination of traditions in American schooling related to visual and performing arts education curricula.
CI 5075 - The Social, Historical and Cultural Foundations of Arts Education
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
The Social, Historical and Cultural Foundations of Arts Education will examine the arts in public education since the 1800s.
CI 5103 - Culture, Schools, & Communities: Human Relations II
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: S-N only
Typically offered: Every Fall
This course provides teacher candidates with the knowledge and skills to address social and cultural dimensions of education. The course then explores community partnerships that support student learning, and how teachers may navigate the social and political environment of schools and school districts to be effective advocates for their students. The course examines three themes that are interwoven throughout: professionalism, teacher leadership, and adaptive expertise. In sum, the course encourages teacher candidates to imagine both the realities and possibilities of schooling in the contemporary world. Learning experiences are made up of class meetings involving speakers, simulations, and multi?media presentations; readings; small group discussions, activities, exercises and projects. Prerequisites: Enrolled in initial teacher licensure program and successful completion of CI 5102.
CI 5164 - Child and Adolescent Development for Teaching and Learning II
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Transitions/development in which children/adolescents negotiate road to adulthood. How to foster learning/positive development. prereq: Enrolled in teacher initial licensure program
CI 5618 - Academic Language and English Learners II
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Prerequisites: Enrolled in teacher initial licensure program
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Spring
Working with English learners and linguistically diverse students across all content areas to develop academic language proficiency. prereq: Enrolled in teacher initial licensure program
EPSY 5016 - Teaching Students with Special Needs in Inclusive Settings
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Attending to constant transitions/development in which children/adolescents negotiate their road to adulthood. How to foster learning/positive development. prereq: Enrolled in teacher initial licensure program
CI 5008 - Theory and Practice of Arts Teaching
Credits: 1.0 -2.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Designed for students pursuing visual or performing arts education licensure, the course explores: 1) Arts concepts, skills, and processes appropriate for elementary school; 2) methods of teaching arts for social justice; and 3) an overview of children’s production of and responses to visual and performing art.
CI 5452 - Reading in the Content Areas for Initial Licensure Candidates
Credits: 1.0 -2.0 [max 2.0]
Prerequisites: Concurrent enrollment in licensure area methods course(s), enrolled in Initial Licensure Program, Internet access, basic understanding of [computer use, Web browsers, email, word processing software]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Web-based course. Fostering students' reading related to learning from text. prereq: Concurrent enrollment in licensure area methods course(s), enrolled in Initial Licensure Program, Internet access, basic understanding of [computer use, Web browsers, email, word processing software]
CI 5050 - Issues in Art Education
Credits: 1.0 -4.0 [max 8.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall & Summer
Issues/trends, current practices, recent research.
CI 5111 - Introduction to Elementary School Teaching
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Curriculum organization, instruction, management, assessment, professional decision making. prereq: Foundations of ed major or elem ed initial lic
EPSY 5001 - Learning, Cognition, and Assessment
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: EPsy 3119/EdHD 5001
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
In this course, you will learn about: Theories of child development and how they relate to approaches to instruction; Behaviorist, cognitive, and social cognitive learning theories; Approaches to instruction and assessment (teacher-centered vs. student-centered vs. assessment-centered); and Issues related to assessment and measuring student learning (validity, reliability, interpretation, etc.) by participating in assessment design (traditional, performance, formative) and interpretation.
CI 5307 - Technology for Teaching and Learning
Credits: 1.5 [max 1.5]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Diverse educational technology in K-12 classrooms. Effective use of technology. Computer technologies used to stimulate personal productivity/communication and to enhance teaching/learning processes. prereq: [MEd/initial licensure or CLA music ed major or preteaching major or instr consent], basic computer skills
CPSY 5301 - Advanced Developmental Psychology
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Summer
This course is an exploration of life span development through the lenses of social, cultural, cognitive, biological, and learning theories and research. A primary emphasis of the class is on gaining better conceptual understanding of different perspectives on healthy development in order to support informed practical understanding of how to help children, adolescents, and adults progress through the developmental periods and to help them with the challenges they face across their lifespan. This course is intended for graduate students. Undergraduate students should take CPSY 2301 or 3301 and not also 5301.
EPSY 5017 - Teaching Exceptional Students in General Education Classrooms
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Summer
This course will provide an overview of the areas of exceptionality defined in federal and state regulations. The focus of this course will be on historical perspectives, definitions, etiology, characteristics, needs, and service delivery systems for each area of exceptionality as well as the general educator?s role in collaborating with special education personnel in order to meet the needs of students with special needs.
OLPD 5005 - School and Society
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Readings in history, philosophy, social sciences, and law revealing diverse educational values in a pluralistic society. Multiple expectations of schools. Civil liberties, rights, community. Varying cultural backgrounds of students, family circumstances, exceptional needs. prereq: Jr or sr or MEd/initial licensure student or CLA music ed major or preteaching major or instr consent
OLPD 5009 - Human Relations: Applied Skills for School and Society
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Issues of prejudice/discrimination in terms of history, power, social perception. Knowledge/skills acquisition in cooperative learning, multicultural education, group dynamics, social influence, leadership, judgment/decision making, prejudice reduction, conflict resolution, teaching in diverse educational settings. prereq: MEd/init lic or CLA music ed or preteaching or instr consent
CI 5283 - Field Experience: Applying Instructional Methods in the Elementary Classroom
Credits: 3.0 [max 6.0]
Grading Basis: S-N only
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Field-based experiences in elementary school settings. In-class discussions about application of classroom learning to school setting. Previously CI 5183. prereq: M.Ed./Elementary education initial licensure student, enrolled in elementary education methods course
CI 5425 - Reading Instruction in the Elementary Grades
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Curricular/methodological issues in teaching of reading. Reading/orthographic processes, strategy instruction for word recognition/comprehension, authentic assessment strategies, and teaching diverse students. prereq: [Elementary or early childhood] licensure student
CI 5426 - Language Arts Instruction in the Elementary Grades
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Curricular/methodological issues of language arts. Oral language development, response to literature, writing processes, authentic assessment strategies. Teaching diverse students. prereq: Elementary or early childhood licensure student
CI 5502 - Science Instruction in the Elementary Grades
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Methods/materials for teaching science/health at elementary school level. prereq: Early Childhood or Elementary Education ILP
CI 5645 - Teaching English Learners in English-medium classrooms
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
The course is designed to give teaching licensure candidates grounding in theory and practice for teaching linguistically and culturally diverse students. This course provides an overview of the benefits and challenges of working with English learners (ELs) and linguistically and culturally diverse students in a variety of settings. Central topics include instructional practices and strategies for teaching English learners; second language literacy and biliteracy development; language learning and bilingualism; and culturally responsive pedagogy. The course is designed to help teacher candidates to develop an understanding of the language-specific challenges that accompany subject matter learning and to demonstrate the ability to apply a range of instructional strategies to help English learners succeed academically. prereq: Early Childhood or Elementary Education ILP or Special Education Major or Special Education M.Ed./M.A candidates
CI 5702 - Social Studies Instruction in the Elementary Grades
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Content/organization of elementary social studies programs. Programs of understanding. Improving learning situation. prereq: Early Childhood or Elementary Education ILP
CI 5822 - Mathematics Instruction in the Elementary Grades
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Principles of learning mathematics in elementary grades. Objectives, content, philosophy, instructional materials, methods of instruction/evaluation. prereq: Early Childhood or Elementary Education ILP
CI 5285 - Clinical Experience in Elementary School Teaching
Credits: 12.0 [max 24.0]
Grading Basis: S-N only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Students spend full days in elementary classroom, gradually assuming responsibility for teaching, and prepare portfolio based on criteria given. One seminar per week. prereq: M.Ed./Elementary education initial licensure students
CI 5286 - Student Teaching Seminar: Elementary Education
Credits: 3.0 [max 6.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Weekly seminar supplementing student teaching experience. Class discussions, sharing of artifacts from the classroom, reflections, and readings. prereq: M.Ed./Elementary education initial licensure only
CI 5287 - Capstone Project: Improvement of Teaching in Elementary and Pre-Kindergarten Schools
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Elementary school classroom teaching project to improve specific teaching skills. Approved/directed by adviser. prereq: M.Ed./elementary education initial licensure student
CI 5283 - Field Experience: Applying Instructional Methods in the Elementary Classroom
Credits: 3.0 [max 6.0]
Grading Basis: S-N only
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Field-based experiences in elementary school settings. In-class discussions about application of classroom learning to school setting. Previously CI 5183. prereq: M.Ed./Elementary education initial licensure student, enrolled in elementary education methods course
CI 5425 - Reading Instruction in the Elementary Grades
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Curricular/methodological issues in teaching of reading. Reading/orthographic processes, strategy instruction for word recognition/comprehension, authentic assessment strategies, and teaching diverse students. prereq: [Elementary or early childhood] licensure student
CI 5426 - Language Arts Instruction in the Elementary Grades
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Curricular/methodological issues of language arts. Oral language development, response to literature, writing processes, authentic assessment strategies. Teaching diverse students. prereq: Elementary or early childhood licensure student
CI 5502 - Science Instruction in the Elementary Grades
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Methods/materials for teaching science/health at elementary school level. prereq: Early Childhood or Elementary Education ILP
CI 5645 - Teaching English Learners in English-medium classrooms
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
The course is designed to give teaching licensure candidates grounding in theory and practice for teaching linguistically and culturally diverse students. This course provides an overview of the benefits and challenges of working with English learners (ELs) and linguistically and culturally diverse students in a variety of settings. Central topics include instructional practices and strategies for teaching English learners; second language literacy and biliteracy development; language learning and bilingualism; and culturally responsive pedagogy. The course is designed to help teacher candidates to develop an understanding of the language-specific challenges that accompany subject matter learning and to demonstrate the ability to apply a range of instructional strategies to help English learners succeed academically. prereq: Early Childhood or Elementary Education ILP or Special Education Major or Special Education M.Ed./M.A candidates
CI 5702 - Social Studies Instruction in the Elementary Grades
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Content/organization of elementary social studies programs. Programs of understanding. Improving learning situation. prereq: Early Childhood or Elementary Education ILP
CI 5822 - Mathematics Instruction in the Elementary Grades
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Principles of learning mathematics in elementary grades. Objectives, content, philosophy, instructional materials, methods of instruction/evaluation. prereq: Early Childhood or Elementary Education ILP
CI 5285 - Clinical Experience in Elementary School Teaching
Credits: 12.0 [max 24.0]
Grading Basis: S-N only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Students spend full days in elementary classroom, gradually assuming responsibility for teaching, and prepare portfolio based on criteria given. One seminar per week. prereq: M.Ed./Elementary education initial licensure students
CI 5286 - Student Teaching Seminar: Elementary Education
Credits: 3.0 [max 6.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Weekly seminar supplementing student teaching experience. Class discussions, sharing of artifacts from the classroom, reflections, and readings. prereq: M.Ed./Elementary education initial licensure only
CI 5287 - Capstone Project: Improvement of Teaching in Elementary and Pre-Kindergarten Schools
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Elementary school classroom teaching project to improve specific teaching skills. Approved/directed by adviser. prereq: M.Ed./elementary education initial licensure student
CI 5102 - Culture, Schools, & Communities: Human Relations I
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Summer
This course provides teacher candidates with the knowledge and skills to address social and cultural dimensions of education. Students explore a wide range of challenges and dilemmas facing contemporary educators in the U.S. and in other global locations. They examine original research and theory from the social sciences, and learn how research and theories have informed various educational policies and actual approaches to teaching. The course begins with a focused study of how U.S. educational history has been shaped by competing norms and purposes. It then moves into the role of philosophy in defining those purposes, and shaping actual approaches to teaching. The course then shifts to examine multiple dimensions of humanity including race, culture, gender, gender orientation, class, worldview, perception, and language in and out of school. These concepts lay the foundation for study of cultural transmission and acquisition, the learning preferences of diverse students, and ultimately, culturally relevant pedagogy, cultural competence, and cultural intelligence. Throughout the course, teacher candidates will consider their own positionality and what that means for their practice. Learning experiences are made up of class meetings involving speakers, simulations, and multi-media presentations; readings; small group discussions, activities, exercises and projects.
CI 5163 - Child and Adolescent Development for Teaching and Learning I
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall & Summer
Attending to constant transitions/development in which children and adolescents negotiate their road to adulthood. How to foster learning/positive development. prereq: Enrolled in teacher initial licensure program
CI 5307 - Technology for Teaching and Learning
Credits: 1.5 [max 1.5]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Diverse educational technology in K-12 classrooms. Effective use of technology. Computer technologies used to stimulate personal productivity/communication and to enhance teaching/learning processes. prereq: [MEd/initial licensure or CLA music ed major or preteaching major or instr consent], basic computer skills
CI 5617 - Academic Language and English Learners I
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Course Equivalencies: CI 5644/EdHD 5017/EdHD 5018
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Summer
Working with English learners and other linguistically diverse students across content areas to develop academic language proficiency. prereq: Enrolled in teacher initial licensure program
EPSY 5015 - Teaching Students with Special Needs in Inclusive Settings
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Summer
Areas of exceptionality defined in federal/state regulations. Historical perspectives, definitions, etiology, characteristics, needs, and service delivery systems. Collaborating with special education personnel. prereq: Enrolled in a teacher initial licensure program
CI 5103 - Culture, Schools, & Communities: Human Relations II
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: S-N only
Typically offered: Every Fall
This course provides teacher candidates with the knowledge and skills to address social and cultural dimensions of education. The course then explores community partnerships that support student learning, and how teachers may navigate the social and political environment of schools and school districts to be effective advocates for their students. The course examines three themes that are interwoven throughout: professionalism, teacher leadership, and adaptive expertise. In sum, the course encourages teacher candidates to imagine both the realities and possibilities of schooling in the contemporary world. Learning experiences are made up of class meetings involving speakers, simulations, and multi?media presentations; readings; small group discussions, activities, exercises and projects. Prerequisites: Enrolled in initial teacher licensure program and successful completion of CI 5102.
CI 5164 - Child and Adolescent Development for Teaching and Learning II
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Transitions/development in which children/adolescents negotiate road to adulthood. How to foster learning/positive development. prereq: Enrolled in teacher initial licensure program
CI 5441 - Teaching Literature in the Secondary School
Credits: 2.0 -3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Current theories. Analyzing literature. Response to literature. Adolescent literature/reading interests. Devising response activities/units. Multicultural literature. Relating media and literature. Linking writing to understanding literature. Designing curriculum. Evaluating/assessing students. Growth in literary response.
CI 5451 - Teaching Reading in Middle and Secondary Grades
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
Methods of accommodating to students' abilities and facilitating reading in regular content classes.
CI 5471 - Clinical Experience in Teaching Secondary English
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Prerequisites: Must register same semester as CI 5441 and CI 5451.
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall
Initial licensure candidates in English Education will observe the teaching and learning experience in a school and classroom context; implement approaches, assessments, and philosophies learned about in corresponding methods courses; reflect upon the complexities of classroom life in a seminar format; and co-plan and co-teach a five-day unit. prereq: Must register same semester as CI 5441 and CI 5451.
CI 5618 - Academic Language and English Learners II
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Prerequisites: Enrolled in teacher initial licensure program
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Spring
Working with English learners and linguistically diverse students across all content areas to develop academic language proficiency. prereq: Enrolled in teacher initial licensure program
EPSY 5016 - Teaching Students with Special Needs in Inclusive Settings
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Attending to constant transitions/development in which children/adolescents negotiate their road to adulthood. How to foster learning/positive development. prereq: Enrolled in teacher initial licensure program
CI 5461 - Teaching Composition in the Secondary School
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Spring & Summer
Theories of composition instruction. Teaching composing within social contexts. Informal writing. Linking reading/writing. Describing/evaluating student writing. Using/modeling conference strategies. Computer-mediated software. Grammar and writing. Editing instruction. Writing assessment. Uses of portfolios.
CI 5481 - Developments in Teaching English and Speech
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Spring
Current theories of English/speech curriculum. Teaching oral language. Organizing curriculum. Linking components of English/speech curriculum. Reflecting on pre-student-teaching experience.
CI 5150 - Curriculum Topics
Credits: 1.0 -4.0 [max 8.0]
Grading Basis: S-N only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Special topics, current trends in curriculum. Subject integration, curriculum contexts, development, implementation, evaluation.
CI 5156 - Popular Culture, Teaching, and Learning
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall
Approaches to the study of popular culture and education. Intersection between everyday life and broader historical contexts. Sporting events, toys, clothing, shopping malls, vampire mania, music festivals, video, and comics are the kinds of popular forms of culture we will engage as we develop teaching/learning strategies. prereq: Grad student or sr in a program that values teaching as a component of the discipline
CI 5404 - Multicultural Literature for Children and Adolescents
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Spring Odd Year
Course explores multicultural literature for children and adolescents as a site where difference can be emphasized and appreciated rather than downplayed and muted. We study award-winning works of fiction and arrive at a definition of multicultural literature for the modern classroom.
CI 5422 - Teaching Writing in Schools
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Theory/practice of teaching writing in schools. How race, gender, and social class impact teaching/learning.
CI 5442 - Adolescent Literature, Youth Activism and Climate Change Literacy
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
This course explores how contemporary adolescent literature engages with the developmental and identity challenges faced by a generation whose lives are framed by anthropogenic climate change, biodiversity loss, mass migrations, and other forms of slow violence inherent in the unsustainable carbon-intensive civilization. Given that climate change is primarily a challenge to our story systems and that adolescents constitute the most invested audience for sustainability education, adolescent literature has become a site of rebellion against the unjust and ecocidal status quo; a site where adolescents can articulate, debate, and creatively respond to visions of sustainable futures. In this course we will study award-winning works of fiction and nonfiction across genres to understand how adolescent literature inspires activist positions vis a vis petronormative ideologies of power that are devastating the planet. Our focus on the intersection of storytelling, activism, and climate change literacy will help us grasp the key role adolescent literature plays in empowering today?s youths to become agents of change. We will discuss how adolescent literature can stoke young people?s transformative anger, inspire them to address the climate crisis, and stand up for their right to have a future. We will consider how educators can support this fight through activism and engaged discussions of adolescent literature. We will read award-winning picturebooks, novels, and graphic novels that challenge us to reinvent ourselves as a biocentric global civilization. The goal is to transform you into an informed advocate of adolescent literature as a tool for developing climate change literacy and empowering your students to imagine post-carbon futures.
CI 5464 - The Politics of Literacy and Race in Schools
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
Literacy and race in schools examined, especially how power plays out, and what are the possibilities for creating radical democratic forms of life. Conceptions of language, literacy, whiteness, and racial identities are explored. Topics include educators’ talk and silence about race, Ebonics, and youth’s racial identities in global times.
CI 5472 - Teaching Critical Media Analysis in Schools
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
"Critical" media literacy means that we focus on, among other things, analyzing the intersection between media and issues of identity -- like gender, race, class and sexuality. We also focus on how to teach critical media analysis to students and others.
CI 5474 - New Literacies Frameworks and Instruction: Digital Texts and Digital Reading
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall
Read digital texts against backdrop of traditional print-based notions of reading, literacy, school curricula/instruction. Assists education professionals in making school/district-wide decisions based on sound research on digital reading/new literacies.
CI 5475 - Teaching Digital Writing
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: CI 5347/CI 5475
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
Blogs, wikis, online discussion. Database searches. Integration of images, audio, video, text. Digital note-taking, mapping, storytelling. Online discussions, collaborative writing. Audio production. Formatting/design techniques. Online evaluation. E-portfolios.
CI 5484 - Improving Secondary English Language Arts Instruction: Part I
Credits: 1.5 [max 1.5]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall
This online course is designed for secondary literacy teachers, including those in communication arts and literature. The purpose of this course is for secondary English Language Arts (ELA) teachers to examine their practice in a collaborative community and to improve teacher effectiveness through ongoing feedback from the instructor and other participants. The course will provide support through small group discussions and peer and instructor response. Key topics to be covered include: 1) frameworks for understanding teacher growth in ELA contexts; 2) developing an ELA classroom ecology; and 3) supporting and assessing student learning in the ELA Common Core Standards. This 1.5-credit course was designed in a sequence with CI 5485: Improving Secondary English Language Arts Instruction: Part II.
CI 5485 - Improving Secondary English Language Arts Instruction: Part II
Credits: 1.5 [max 1.5]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Spring
This online course is designed for secondary literacy teachers, including those in communication arts and literature. The purpose of this course is for secondary English Language Arts (ELA) teachers to examine their practice in a collaborative community and to improve teacher effectiveness through ongoing feedback from the instructor and other participants. The course will provide support through small group discussions and peer and instructor response. This 1.5-credit course was designed in a sequence with CI 5484: Improving Secondary English Language Arts Instruction: Part I. This second course in the sequence will focus on teacher-driven professional inquiry that participants began developing in CI 5484. prereq: Successful completion of CI 5484.
CI 5641 - Language, Culture, and Education
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Spring & Summer
Applies current sociolinguistic and discourse theory/research to study of relationships between language and culture in educational settings: language curriculum and instruction; classroom language use; borders between school and home/community language use; and educational policies on literacy/second-language instruction.
CI 5102 - Culture, Schools, & Communities: Human Relations I
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Summer
This course provides teacher candidates with the knowledge and skills to address social and cultural dimensions of education. Students explore a wide range of challenges and dilemmas facing contemporary educators in the U.S. and in other global locations. They examine original research and theory from the social sciences, and learn how research and theories have informed various educational policies and actual approaches to teaching. The course begins with a focused study of how U.S. educational history has been shaped by competing norms and purposes. It then moves into the role of philosophy in defining those purposes, and shaping actual approaches to teaching. The course then shifts to examine multiple dimensions of humanity including race, culture, gender, gender orientation, class, worldview, perception, and language in and out of school. These concepts lay the foundation for study of cultural transmission and acquisition, the learning preferences of diverse students, and ultimately, culturally relevant pedagogy, cultural competence, and cultural intelligence. Throughout the course, teacher candidates will consider their own positionality and what that means for their practice. Learning experiences are made up of class meetings involving speakers, simulations, and multi-media presentations; readings; small group discussions, activities, exercises and projects.
CI 5307 - Technology for Teaching and Learning
Credits: 1.5 [max 1.5]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Diverse educational technology in K-12 classrooms. Effective use of technology. Computer technologies used to stimulate personal productivity/communication and to enhance teaching/learning processes. prereq: [MEd/initial licensure or CLA music ed major or preteaching major or instr consent], basic computer skills
CI 5617 - Academic Language and English Learners I
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Course Equivalencies: CI 5644/EdHD 5017/EdHD 5018
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Summer
Working with English learners and other linguistically diverse students across content areas to develop academic language proficiency. prereq: Enrolled in teacher initial licensure program
EPSY 5001 - Learning, Cognition, and Assessment
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: EPsy 3119/EdHD 5001
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
In this course, you will learn about: Theories of child development and how they relate to approaches to instruction; Behaviorist, cognitive, and social cognitive learning theories; Approaches to instruction and assessment (teacher-centered vs. student-centered vs. assessment-centered); and Issues related to assessment and measuring student learning (validity, reliability, interpretation, etc.) by participating in assessment design (traditional, performance, formative) and interpretation.
EPSY 5017 - Teaching Exceptional Students in General Education Classrooms
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Summer
This course will provide an overview of the areas of exceptionality defined in federal and state regulations. The focus of this course will be on historical perspectives, definitions, etiology, characteristics, needs, and service delivery systems for each area of exceptionality as well as the general educator?s role in collaborating with special education personnel in order to meet the needs of students with special needs.
MTHE 5011 - Arithmetic Structures in School Mathematics
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Summer
Pedagogy, content, and instructional strategies for teaching arithmetic. Content and issues relevant to the K-8 mathematics curriculum. Instructional materials and technology appropriate for elementary or middle school arithmetic. Credit hours and targeted level vary with particular classes. prereq: Enrollment in math initial licensure program or tchg exper
CI 5103 - Culture, Schools, & Communities: Human Relations II
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: S-N only
Typically offered: Every Fall
This course provides teacher candidates with the knowledge and skills to address social and cultural dimensions of education. The course then explores community partnerships that support student learning, and how teachers may navigate the social and political environment of schools and school districts to be effective advocates for their students. The course examines three themes that are interwoven throughout: professionalism, teacher leadership, and adaptive expertise. In sum, the course encourages teacher candidates to imagine both the realities and possibilities of schooling in the contemporary world. Learning experiences are made up of class meetings involving speakers, simulations, and multi?media presentations; readings; small group discussions, activities, exercises and projects. Prerequisites: Enrolled in initial teacher licensure program and successful completion of CI 5102.
CI 5452 - Reading in the Content Areas for Initial Licensure Candidates
Credits: 1.0 -2.0 [max 2.0]
Prerequisites: Concurrent enrollment in licensure area methods course(s), enrolled in Initial Licensure Program, Internet access, basic understanding of [computer use, Web browsers, email, word processing software]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Web-based course. Fostering students' reading related to learning from text. prereq: Concurrent enrollment in licensure area methods course(s), enrolled in Initial Licensure Program, Internet access, basic understanding of [computer use, Web browsers, email, word processing software]
CI 5618 - Academic Language and English Learners II
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Prerequisites: Enrolled in teacher initial licensure program
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Spring
Working with English learners and linguistically diverse students across all content areas to develop academic language proficiency. prereq: Enrolled in teacher initial licensure program
MTHE 5021 - Algebraic Structures in School Mathematics
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Pedagogy, content, and instructional strategies for teaching arithmetic. Content and issues relevant to the algebra curriculum. Instructional materials and technology appropriate for arithmetic. Each offering of the course will focus on either elementary/middle or middle/secondary grade levels. prereq: Tchg exper or isntr consent
MTHE 5115 - Applications of Teaching Mathematics
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall
The purpose of this course is to examine mathematics teaching in diverse school settings and help you inquire and reflect about your own teaching practice and its impact on you, and the students you will meet. Throughout this course we will collaboratively inquire about teaching and learning, observe and analyze instruction, and reflect on your own and each other?s teaching. We will develop and integrate technological knowledge that works together with pedagogical and content knowledge to make math teaching more effective. prereq: You must be enrolled in the Mathematics initial licensure program to take this course.
MTHE 5031 - Geometric Structures in School Mathematics
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Pedagogy, content, and instructional strategies for teaching school geometry. Content and issues relevant to the geometry curriculum. Instructional materials and technology appropriate for geometry. Each offering will focus on either elementary/middle or middle/secondary grade levels. prereq: Enrollment in math initial licensure program
MTHE 5314 - Teaching and Learning Mathematics
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Methods, materials, and curriculum development. Principles of learning. Review of research. Preparation/evaluation of tests, units, and materials of instruction. Recent developments in mathematics curriculum and in instructional alternatives. Issues in teaching/learning. Program planning/evaluation. prereq: Math Ed or MEd or CI MEd or grad student or instr consent
MTHE 5366 - Technology-Assisted Mathematics Instruction
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Technology--including computers, programmable and graphing calculators, and video--as instructional tools in mathematics; design and evaluation of technology-based mathematics lessons; the effect of technology on the mathematics curriculum; managing the technology-enriched classroom.
MTHE 5171 - Teaching Problem Solving
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Spring & Summer
Investigation of fundamental concepts and principles of problem solving, reasoning, and proof. Emphasis on activities and applications appropriate for junior and senior high classes. Pedagogical experiences to prepare teachers to teach problem solving, reasoning, and proof in classrooms.
MTHE 5172 - Teaching Probability and Statistics
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Fall Odd Year
Investigation of fundamental concepts and principles of probability and statistics. Emphasis on activities and applications appropriate for junior and senior high school classes. Pedagogical experiences to prepare teachers to integrate quantitative literacy accurately and effectively in classrooms.
MTHE 5355 - Mathematics for Diverse Learners
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Mathematical concepts and methods for exceptional students, both low achieving and gifted. Experimental materials and methods designed for underachieving students. prereq: Teaching license or student in elem ed or special ed or instr consent
MTHE 5993 - Directed Studies in Mathematics Education
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis: S-N or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Secondary school classroom teaching project to improve specific teaching skills, planned by student, approved/directed by student's adviser. prereq: Math ed MEd student, instr consent
CI 5102 - Culture, Schools, & Communities: Human Relations I
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Summer
This course provides teacher candidates with the knowledge and skills to address social and cultural dimensions of education. Students explore a wide range of challenges and dilemmas facing contemporary educators in the U.S. and in other global locations. They examine original research and theory from the social sciences, and learn how research and theories have informed various educational policies and actual approaches to teaching. The course begins with a focused study of how U.S. educational history has been shaped by competing norms and purposes. It then moves into the role of philosophy in defining those purposes, and shaping actual approaches to teaching. The course then shifts to examine multiple dimensions of humanity including race, culture, gender, gender orientation, class, worldview, perception, and language in and out of school. These concepts lay the foundation for study of cultural transmission and acquisition, the learning preferences of diverse students, and ultimately, culturally relevant pedagogy, cultural competence, and cultural intelligence. Throughout the course, teacher candidates will consider their own positionality and what that means for their practice. Learning experiences are made up of class meetings involving speakers, simulations, and multi-media presentations; readings; small group discussions, activities, exercises and projects.
CI 5530 - Secondary Science Methods I
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Summer
Lab-based science teaching in secondary school setting. Research-based teaching strategies are modeled that address national-/state-level standards. How to use various inquiry-based instructional techniques/methods.
CI 5617 - Academic Language and English Learners I
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Course Equivalencies: CI 5644/EdHD 5017/EdHD 5018
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Summer
Working with English learners and other linguistically diverse students across content areas to develop academic language proficiency. prereq: Enrolled in teacher initial licensure program
EPSY 5001 - Learning, Cognition, and Assessment
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: EPsy 3119/EdHD 5001
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
In this course, you will learn about: Theories of child development and how they relate to approaches to instruction; Behaviorist, cognitive, and social cognitive learning theories; Approaches to instruction and assessment (teacher-centered vs. student-centered vs. assessment-centered); and Issues related to assessment and measuring student learning (validity, reliability, interpretation, etc.) by participating in assessment design (traditional, performance, formative) and interpretation.
EPSY 5017 - Teaching Exceptional Students in General Education Classrooms
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Summer
This course will provide an overview of the areas of exceptionality defined in federal and state regulations. The focus of this course will be on historical perspectives, definitions, etiology, characteristics, needs, and service delivery systems for each area of exceptionality as well as the general educator?s role in collaborating with special education personnel in order to meet the needs of students with special needs.
CI 5103 - Culture, Schools, & Communities: Human Relations II
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: S-N only
Typically offered: Every Fall
This course provides teacher candidates with the knowledge and skills to address social and cultural dimensions of education. The course then explores community partnerships that support student learning, and how teachers may navigate the social and political environment of schools and school districts to be effective advocates for their students. The course examines three themes that are interwoven throughout: professionalism, teacher leadership, and adaptive expertise. In sum, the course encourages teacher candidates to imagine both the realities and possibilities of schooling in the contemporary world. Learning experiences are made up of class meetings involving speakers, simulations, and multi?media presentations; readings; small group discussions, activities, exercises and projects. Prerequisites: Enrolled in initial teacher licensure program and successful completion of CI 5102.
CI 5307 - Technology for Teaching and Learning
Credits: 1.5 [max 1.5]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Diverse educational technology in K-12 classrooms. Effective use of technology. Computer technologies used to stimulate personal productivity/communication and to enhance teaching/learning processes. prereq: [MEd/initial licensure or CLA music ed major or preteaching major or instr consent], basic computer skills
CI 5452 - Reading in the Content Areas for Initial Licensure Candidates
Credits: 1.0 -2.0 [max 2.0]
Prerequisites: Concurrent enrollment in licensure area methods course(s), enrolled in Initial Licensure Program, Internet access, basic understanding of [computer use, Web browsers, email, word processing software]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Web-based course. Fostering students' reading related to learning from text. prereq: Concurrent enrollment in licensure area methods course(s), enrolled in Initial Licensure Program, Internet access, basic understanding of [computer use, Web browsers, email, word processing software]
CI 5531 - Secondary Science Methods II
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
Methods of planning/teaching science to middle school students. prereq: Initial licensure student in science ed and CI 5530 Secondary Science Methods 1
CI 5541 - Teaching History and Nature of Science
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
Understanding nature of science(NOS). Integrate/reflect on NOS in secondary science classroom. Historical cases/integrating NOS with science content/scientific inquiry. prereq: MEd ILP or professional studies student in science education or instr consent
CI 5596 - Clinical Experience in Middle School Science
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
Supervised clinical experience in middle school science teaching.
CI 5618 - Academic Language and English Learners II
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Prerequisites: Enrolled in teacher initial licensure program
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Spring
Working with English learners and linguistically diverse students across all content areas to develop academic language proficiency. prereq: Enrolled in teacher initial licensure program
CI 5532 - Secondary Science Methods III
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Spring
Methods of planning/teaching science for secondary school students. prereq: Admission to initial licensure program in science and CI 5531 Secondary Science Methods II
CI 5533 - Current Developments in Science Teaching
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Summer
Using curriculum standards to design science courses. prereq: MEd, initial licensure, grad student, or instr consent
CI 5535 - Foundations of Science Education
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Spring
Analysis of present science teaching practices in light of historical and philosophical foundations of science education. prereq: M.Ed., grad student, or instr consent
CI 5536 - Equity, Policy, and Assessment in Science Education
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall
Nature of equity, diversity, and policy matters that influence schools/teachers involved in science teaching and scientific literacy. Classroom presentations, discussions, readings in current research. prereq: Med, or grad student, or instr consent
CI 5540 - Special Topics: Science Education
Credits: 1.0 -4.0 [max 12.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Detailed examination and practice of the teaching of one area of science (e.g. geology, health, physical science) or one method of instruction (e.g. laboratories, demonstrations, Internet, simulations).
CI 5551 - Reflecting on Science Classroom Practices I
Credits: 1.5 [max 1.5]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall
Students reflect on their instruction and student learning during first years of teaching. Monthly meetings, observations, online discussion. Classroom management, planning, inquiry-based teaching, assessment, equity in the classroom. prereq: MEd science education student, in first three years of teaching
CI 5552 - Reflecting on Science Classroom Practices II
Credits: 1.5 [max 1.5]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Spring
Students reflect on their instruction and student learning during first years of teaching. Monthly meetings, observations, online discussion. Classroom management, planning, inquiry-based teaching, assessment, equity in the classroom. prereq: MEd science education student, in first three years of teaching
CI 5102 - Culture, Schools, & Communities: Human Relations I
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Summer
This course provides teacher candidates with the knowledge and skills to address social and cultural dimensions of education. Students explore a wide range of challenges and dilemmas facing contemporary educators in the U.S. and in other global locations. They examine original research and theory from the social sciences, and learn how research and theories have informed various educational policies and actual approaches to teaching. The course begins with a focused study of how U.S. educational history has been shaped by competing norms and purposes. It then moves into the role of philosophy in defining those purposes, and shaping actual approaches to teaching. The course then shifts to examine multiple dimensions of humanity including race, culture, gender, gender orientation, class, worldview, perception, and language in and out of school. These concepts lay the foundation for study of cultural transmission and acquisition, the learning preferences of diverse students, and ultimately, culturally relevant pedagogy, cultural competence, and cultural intelligence. Throughout the course, teacher candidates will consider their own positionality and what that means for their practice. Learning experiences are made up of class meetings involving speakers, simulations, and multi-media presentations; readings; small group discussions, activities, exercises and projects.
CI 5163 - Child and Adolescent Development for Teaching and Learning I
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall & Summer
Attending to constant transitions/development in which children and adolescents negotiate their road to adulthood. How to foster learning/positive development. prereq: Enrolled in teacher initial licensure program
CI 5452 - Reading in the Content Areas for Initial Licensure Candidates
Credits: 1.0 -2.0 [max 2.0]
Prerequisites: Concurrent enrollment in licensure area methods course(s), enrolled in Initial Licensure Program, Internet access, basic understanding of [computer use, Web browsers, email, word processing software]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Web-based course. Fostering students' reading related to learning from text. prereq: Concurrent enrollment in licensure area methods course(s), enrolled in Initial Licensure Program, Internet access, basic understanding of [computer use, Web browsers, email, word processing software]
CI 5620 - Introduction to Second Language Acquisition for Language Teachers
Credits: 3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered: Every Summer
Current research and theory in the area of second language acquisition (SLA). Topics include the similarities and differences across first and second language acquisition; the role of individual differences in language learning (including age, first language, aptitude among others). Implications for sociolinguistic diversity in the United States.
CI 5631 - Second Language Curriculum Development and Assessment
Credits: 1.0 -3.0 [max 6.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Summer
Instruction/assessment of ESL and World Languages in the modalities of speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Backwards design, proficiency-oriented approach, use of content-based instruction. Planning for the integration of instruction and assessment. prereq: SLE initial licensure only
EPSY 5015 - Teaching Students with Special Needs in Inclusive Settings
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Summer
Areas of exceptionality defined in federal/state regulations. Historical perspectives, definitions, etiology, characteristics, needs, and service delivery systems. Collaborating with special education personnel. prereq: Enrolled in a teacher initial licensure program
LING 5001 - Introduction to Linguistics
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Ling 3001/3001H/5001
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Scientific study of human language. Methods, questions, findings, and perspectives of modern linguistics. Components of the language system (phonetics/phonology, syntax, semantics/pragmatics); language acquisition; language and social variables; language and cognition; language change; language processing; language and public policy; language and cognition.
CI 5103 - Culture, Schools, & Communities: Human Relations II
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: S-N only
Typically offered: Every Fall
This course provides teacher candidates with the knowledge and skills to address social and cultural dimensions of education. The course then explores community partnerships that support student learning, and how teachers may navigate the social and political environment of schools and school districts to be effective advocates for their students. The course examines three themes that are interwoven throughout: professionalism, teacher leadership, and adaptive expertise. In sum, the course encourages teacher candidates to imagine both the realities and possibilities of schooling in the contemporary world. Learning experiences are made up of class meetings involving speakers, simulations, and multi?media presentations; readings; small group discussions, activities, exercises and projects. Prerequisites: Enrolled in initial teacher licensure program and successful completion of CI 5102.
CI 5164 - Child and Adolescent Development for Teaching and Learning II
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Transitions/development in which children/adolescents negotiate road to adulthood. How to foster learning/positive development. prereq: Enrolled in teacher initial licensure program
CI 5307 - Technology for Teaching and Learning
Credits: 1.5 [max 1.5]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Diverse educational technology in K-12 classrooms. Effective use of technology. Computer technologies used to stimulate personal productivity/communication and to enhance teaching/learning processes. prereq: [MEd/initial licensure or CLA music ed major or preteaching major or instr consent], basic computer skills
CI 5361 - Teaching and Learning with the Internet
Credits: 2.0 -3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Implications/challenges in using Internet-based technologies in classroom. Pedagogical models.
CI 5632 - Literacy and Language Development in Second Language Classrooms
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
Processes/instructional approaches in developing second language proficiency in the modalities of reading, writing, speaking, and listening and communicative modes (interpretive, presentational, interpersonal); development of literacy in a second language; planning L2 literacy instruction based on research on L1 and L2 literacy development; integration of instruction/assessment in language teaching. prereq: SLE initial licensure only
CI 5646 - Grammar for Language Teachers
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Syntax from a pedagogical perspective. Grammatical structures that challenge language learners. Issues/activities related to teaching grammar in English and other languages. prereq: LING 5001 or instr consent
CI 5634 - Content-Based Instruction in Second Language Settings
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Spring
Building on foundation from other courses in the sequence. Instruction/assessment of ESL and World Languages at the secondary level. Prepares students to connect language teaching with other content areas, analyze/address the academic language needs of English learners, and advocate for second language programs and students. prereq: SLE initial licensure only
CI 5635 - Culture and Diversity in Second Language Classrooms
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Teaching culture as content and including students' home cultures in the curriculum and diverse student needs. Needs of students of various educational, social, and cultural backgrounds/ways to develop academic success through instruction in learning strategies and other approaches to differentiation. prereq: Initial licensure program only
EPSY 5016 - Teaching Students with Special Needs in Inclusive Settings
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Attending to constant transitions/development in which children/adolescents negotiate their road to adulthood. How to foster learning/positive development. prereq: Enrolled in teacher initial licensure program
CI 5307 - Technology for Teaching and Learning
Credits: 1.5 [max 1.5]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Diverse educational technology in K-12 classrooms. Effective use of technology. Computer technologies used to stimulate personal productivity/communication and to enhance teaching/learning processes. prereq: [MEd/initial licensure or CLA music ed major or preteaching major or instr consent], basic computer skills
CI 5452 - Reading in the Content Areas for Initial Licensure Candidates
Credits: 1.0 -2.0 [max 2.0]
Prerequisites: Concurrent enrollment in licensure area methods course(s), enrolled in Initial Licensure Program, Internet access, basic understanding of [computer use, Web browsers, email, word processing software]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Web-based course. Fostering students' reading related to learning from text. prereq: Concurrent enrollment in licensure area methods course(s), enrolled in Initial Licensure Program, Internet access, basic understanding of [computer use, Web browsers, email, word processing software]
OLPD 5005 - School and Society
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Readings in history, philosophy, social sciences, and law revealing diverse educational values in a pluralistic society. Multiple expectations of schools. Civil liberties, rights, community. Varying cultural backgrounds of students, family circumstances, exceptional needs. prereq: Jr or sr or MEd/initial licensure student or CLA music ed major or preteaching major or instr consent
OLPD 5009 - Human Relations: Applied Skills for School and Society
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Issues of prejudice/discrimination in terms of history, power, social perception. Knowledge/skills acquisition in cooperative learning, multicultural education, group dynamics, social influence, leadership, judgment/decision making, prejudice reduction, conflict resolution, teaching in diverse educational settings. prereq: MEd/init lic or CLA music ed or preteaching or instr consent
EPSY 5015 - Teaching Students with Special Needs in Inclusive Settings
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Summer
Areas of exceptionality defined in federal/state regulations. Historical perspectives, definitions, etiology, characteristics, needs, and service delivery systems. Collaborating with special education personnel. prereq: Enrolled in a teacher initial licensure program
EPSY 5016 - Teaching Students with Special Needs in Inclusive Settings
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Attending to constant transitions/development in which children/adolescents negotiate their road to adulthood. How to foster learning/positive development. prereq: Enrolled in teacher initial licensure program
EPSY 5017 - Teaching Exceptional Students in General Education Classrooms
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Summer
This course will provide an overview of the areas of exceptionality defined in federal and state regulations. The focus of this course will be on historical perspectives, definitions, etiology, characteristics, needs, and service delivery systems for each area of exceptionality as well as the general educator?s role in collaborating with special education personnel in order to meet the needs of students with special needs.
CI 5163 - Child and Adolescent Development for Teaching and Learning I
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall & Summer
Attending to constant transitions/development in which children and adolescents negotiate their road to adulthood. How to foster learning/positive development. prereq: Enrolled in teacher initial licensure program
CI 5164 - Child and Adolescent Development for Teaching and Learning II
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Transitions/development in which children/adolescents negotiate road to adulthood. How to foster learning/positive development. prereq: Enrolled in teacher initial licensure program
CPSY 5301 - Advanced Developmental Psychology
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Summer
This course is an exploration of life span development through the lenses of social, cultural, cognitive, biological, and learning theories and research. A primary emphasis of the class is on gaining better conceptual understanding of different perspectives on healthy development in order to support informed practical understanding of how to help children, adolescents, and adults progress through the developmental periods and to help them with the challenges they face across their lifespan. This course is intended for graduate students. Undergraduate students should take CPSY 2301 or 3301 and not also 5301.
EPSY 5001 - Learning, Cognition, and Assessment
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: EPsy 3119/EdHD 5001
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
In this course, you will learn about: Theories of child development and how they relate to approaches to instruction; Behaviorist, cognitive, and social cognitive learning theories; Approaches to instruction and assessment (teacher-centered vs. student-centered vs. assessment-centered); and Issues related to assessment and measuring student learning (validity, reliability, interpretation, etc.) by participating in assessment design (traditional, performance, formative) and interpretation.
CI 5620 - Introduction to Second Language Acquisition for Language Teachers
Credits: 3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered: Every Summer
Current research and theory in the area of second language acquisition (SLA). Topics include the similarities and differences across first and second language acquisition; the role of individual differences in language learning (including age, first language, aptitude among others). Implications for sociolinguistic diversity in the United States.
CI 5642 - Assessing English Learners
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Spring Odd Year
Current practices concerning language and academic content assessment of English learners (ELs) at the school site, state, and national level; factors affecting academic learning needs of ELs/where assessment fits into that picture.
CI 5646 - Grammar for Language Teachers
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Syntax from a pedagogical perspective. Grammatical structures that challenge language learners. Issues/activities related to teaching grammar in English and other languages. prereq: LING 5001 or instr consent
CI 5651 - Foundations of Second Languages and Cultures Education
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
Historical overview of second language teaching/learning in U.S. introduction to second language acquisition. Second language instructional concepts across elementary, secondary/university options for foreign language, bilingual education, immersion language programs, and English as a second language programs. Theoretical frameworks for language instruction are tied to practice.
CI 5656 - Teaching Literacy in Second Language Classrooms
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: OPT No Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
Reading comprehension/composing processes in a second language; relationship between first and second literacy development; relationship between reading and writing; relationship of culture to reading comprehension and writing; politics of literacy; assessment of second language literacy; using technology to enhance literacy instruction.
CI 5657 - Teaching Speaking and Listening in Second Language Classrooms
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Spring Even Year
Theories/methods in teaching language as communication in oral/aural modes; planning student interaction; classroom organization for oral language learning/acquisition; using technology to enhance interaction; assessment of listening comprehension and oral communication.
CI 5662 - Second Language Curriculum Design
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Spring
Historical overview of curriculum development in second language education; contexts that influence curriculum development; models for curriculum development in second language settings; politics of curricular reform; national/state standards and implications for curriculum development; effects of technology on second language curriculum.
CI 5697 - Additional Licensure Field experience: Teaching ESL and World Languages
Credits: 2.0 -6.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Teaching and learning experiences in Second Language Education as needed to complete the scope of the license (Elementary, Middle or High School). Requires students to work in a public school setting. prereq: Adviser approval; credits cannot be counted on a graduate degree program.
LING 5001 - Introduction to Linguistics
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Ling 3001/3001H/5001
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Scientific study of human language. Methods, questions, findings, and perspectives of modern linguistics. Components of the language system (phonetics/phonology, syntax, semantics/pragmatics); language acquisition; language and social variables; language and cognition; language change; language processing; language and public policy; language and cognition.
CI 5307 - Technology for Teaching and Learning
Credits: 1.5 [max 1.5]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Diverse educational technology in K-12 classrooms. Effective use of technology. Computer technologies used to stimulate personal productivity/communication and to enhance teaching/learning processes. prereq: [MEd/initial licensure or CLA music ed major or preteaching major or instr consent], basic computer skills
CI 5452 - Reading in the Content Areas for Initial Licensure Candidates
Credits: 1.0 -2.0 [max 2.0]
Prerequisites: Concurrent enrollment in licensure area methods course(s), enrolled in Initial Licensure Program, Internet access, basic understanding of [computer use, Web browsers, email, word processing software]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Web-based course. Fostering students' reading related to learning from text. prereq: Concurrent enrollment in licensure area methods course(s), enrolled in Initial Licensure Program, Internet access, basic understanding of [computer use, Web browsers, email, word processing software]
OLPD 5005 - School and Society
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Readings in history, philosophy, social sciences, and law revealing diverse educational values in a pluralistic society. Multiple expectations of schools. Civil liberties, rights, community. Varying cultural backgrounds of students, family circumstances, exceptional needs. prereq: Jr or sr or MEd/initial licensure student or CLA music ed major or preteaching major or instr consent
OLPD 5009 - Human Relations: Applied Skills for School and Society
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Issues of prejudice/discrimination in terms of history, power, social perception. Knowledge/skills acquisition in cooperative learning, multicultural education, group dynamics, social influence, leadership, judgment/decision making, prejudice reduction, conflict resolution, teaching in diverse educational settings. prereq: MEd/init lic or CLA music ed or preteaching or instr consent
EPSY 5015 - Teaching Students with Special Needs in Inclusive Settings
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Summer
Areas of exceptionality defined in federal/state regulations. Historical perspectives, definitions, etiology, characteristics, needs, and service delivery systems. Collaborating with special education personnel. prereq: Enrolled in a teacher initial licensure program
EPSY 5016 - Teaching Students with Special Needs in Inclusive Settings
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Attending to constant transitions/development in which children/adolescents negotiate their road to adulthood. How to foster learning/positive development. prereq: Enrolled in teacher initial licensure program
EPSY 5017 - Teaching Exceptional Students in General Education Classrooms
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Summer
This course will provide an overview of the areas of exceptionality defined in federal and state regulations. The focus of this course will be on historical perspectives, definitions, etiology, characteristics, needs, and service delivery systems for each area of exceptionality as well as the general educator?s role in collaborating with special education personnel in order to meet the needs of students with special needs.
CI 5163 - Child and Adolescent Development for Teaching and Learning I
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall & Summer
Attending to constant transitions/development in which children and adolescents negotiate their road to adulthood. How to foster learning/positive development. prereq: Enrolled in teacher initial licensure program
CI 5164 - Child and Adolescent Development for Teaching and Learning II
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Transitions/development in which children/adolescents negotiate road to adulthood. How to foster learning/positive development. prereq: Enrolled in teacher initial licensure program
CPSY 5301 - Advanced Developmental Psychology
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Summer
This course is an exploration of life span development through the lenses of social, cultural, cognitive, biological, and learning theories and research. A primary emphasis of the class is on gaining better conceptual understanding of different perspectives on healthy development in order to support informed practical understanding of how to help children, adolescents, and adults progress through the developmental periods and to help them with the challenges they face across their lifespan. This course is intended for graduate students. Undergraduate students should take CPSY 2301 or 3301 and not also 5301.
EPSY 5001 - Learning, Cognition, and Assessment
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: EPsy 3119/EdHD 5001
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
In this course, you will learn about: Theories of child development and how they relate to approaches to instruction; Behaviorist, cognitive, and social cognitive learning theories; Approaches to instruction and assessment (teacher-centered vs. student-centered vs. assessment-centered); and Issues related to assessment and measuring student learning (validity, reliability, interpretation, etc.) by participating in assessment design (traditional, performance, formative) and interpretation.
CI 5619 - Teaching World Languages and Cultures in Elementary Settings
Credits: 2.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Summer
Methods/materials for elementary world language instruction; development of oral communication/literacy in world languages; world language program design; global awareness/cross-cultural experience; children's language; children's literature, games, and songs; planning/development of units and lessons.
CI 5651 - Foundations of Second Languages and Cultures Education
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
Historical overview of second language teaching/learning in U.S. introduction to second language acquisition. Second language instructional concepts across elementary, secondary/university options for foreign language, bilingual education, immersion language programs, and English as a second language programs. Theoretical frameworks for language instruction are tied to practice.
CI 5656 - Teaching Literacy in Second Language Classrooms
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: OPT No Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
Reading comprehension/composing processes in a second language; relationship between first and second literacy development; relationship between reading and writing; relationship of culture to reading comprehension and writing; politics of literacy; assessment of second language literacy; using technology to enhance literacy instruction.
CI 5657 - Teaching Speaking and Listening in Second Language Classrooms
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Spring Even Year
Theories/methods in teaching language as communication in oral/aural modes; planning student interaction; classroom organization for oral language learning/acquisition; using technology to enhance interaction; assessment of listening comprehension and oral communication.
CI 5696 - Initial Licensure Field experience: Teaching ESL and World Languages
Credits: 2.0 -6.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Teaching and learning experiences in Second Language Education across the scope of the license (Elementary, Middle & High School). Requires students to work in a public school setting. prereq: adviser approval; credits cannot be counted on a graduate degree program.
CI 5624 - Content-based Language Instruction and Curriculum Development
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis: OPT No Aud
Typically offered: Every Summer
Intensive professional development to help foreign language teachers learn to implement the CBI curricular approach in the language classroom. Introduces all phases of CBI curricular development and provides resources necessary to ensure successful implementation.
CI 5662 - Second Language Curriculum Design
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Spring
Historical overview of curriculum development in second language education; contexts that influence curriculum development; models for curriculum development in second language settings; politics of curricular reform; national/state standards and implications for curriculum development; effects of technology on second language curriculum.
CI 5621 - Culture as the Core in the Second Language Classroom
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis: OPT No Aud
Typically offered: Every Summer
How language teachers foster development of intercultural communicative competence through a pedagogical approach that addresses the nature of culture and culture learning, and the interrelatedness of language and culture learning.
CI 5641 - Language, Culture, and Education
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Spring & Summer
Applies current sociolinguistic and discourse theory/research to study of relationships between language and culture in educational settings: language curriculum and instruction; classroom language use; borders between school and home/community language use; and educational policies on literacy/second-language instruction.
CI 5660 - Special Topics in the Teaching of Second Languages and Cultures
Credits: 1.0 -4.0 [max 12.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring & Summer
Topics related specifically to the needs of the in-service teacher. Topics, location, credits, and duration are flexible.
CI 5625 - Assessing Language Learners? Communication Skills via Authentic Communicative Performance Tasks
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis: OPT No Aud
Typically offered: Every Summer
This institute opens with a discussion of the phrase ?performance towards proficiency? to highlight how classroom performance influences proficiency in real world contexts. Working together, participants will create a list of characteristics of classroom activities and tasks that build learners? proficiency in the target language and will use the list to identify the purpose, effectiveness, and practicality of a variety of model activities and tasks. With this background, participants will design receptive and productive communicative tasks for beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels of proficiency. The institute will then focus on the evaluation of the learners? performance on these tasks. Using the performance descriptors identified by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR), and the World-Class Instructional Design and Assessment (WIDA), participants will identify the domains (vocabulary, language control, text type, etc.) to evaluate learner performance on various tasks. With model rubric scales, they will evaluate examples of learner performances on various tasks, comparing their individual ratings to underline the importance of establishing inter-rater reliability. Participants will then create rubrics for the tasks they designed earlier in the institute. The role and choice of formative assessments used in daily lessons to monitor learner progress towards achievement of the communication goals of an instructional unit will also be considered. As a capstone to the week, participants will apply their learning about task design and evaluation in the development of a standards-based Integrated Performance Assessment (IPA) to share with colleagues within this institute and also with a broader audience via the CARLA Assessment website.
CI 5658 - Language Testing and Assessment
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Spring Odd Year
For language teachers. Aligning language classroom instruction/assessment; language testing/assessment; classroom-based and large-scale proficiency testing/assessment; assessing proficiency in speaking, listening, reading, writing and communicative modes (interpretive, presentational, interpersonal); creation of formative/summative assessments; critique of contemporary assessment instruments.
CI 5102 - Culture, Schools, & Communities: Human Relations I
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Summer
This course provides teacher candidates with the knowledge and skills to address social and cultural dimensions of education. Students explore a wide range of challenges and dilemmas facing contemporary educators in the U.S. and in other global locations. They examine original research and theory from the social sciences, and learn how research and theories have informed various educational policies and actual approaches to teaching. The course begins with a focused study of how U.S. educational history has been shaped by competing norms and purposes. It then moves into the role of philosophy in defining those purposes, and shaping actual approaches to teaching. The course then shifts to examine multiple dimensions of humanity including race, culture, gender, gender orientation, class, worldview, perception, and language in and out of school. These concepts lay the foundation for study of cultural transmission and acquisition, the learning preferences of diverse students, and ultimately, culturally relevant pedagogy, cultural competence, and cultural intelligence. Throughout the course, teacher candidates will consider their own positionality and what that means for their practice. Learning experiences are made up of class meetings involving speakers, simulations, and multi-media presentations; readings; small group discussions, activities, exercises and projects.
CI 5163 - Child and Adolescent Development for Teaching and Learning I
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall & Summer
Attending to constant transitions/development in which children and adolescents negotiate their road to adulthood. How to foster learning/positive development. prereq: Enrolled in teacher initial licensure program
CI 5452 - Reading in the Content Areas for Initial Licensure Candidates
Credits: 1.0 -2.0 [max 2.0]
Prerequisites: Concurrent enrollment in licensure area methods course(s), enrolled in Initial Licensure Program, Internet access, basic understanding of [computer use, Web browsers, email, word processing software]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Web-based course. Fostering students' reading related to learning from text. prereq: Concurrent enrollment in licensure area methods course(s), enrolled in Initial Licensure Program, Internet access, basic understanding of [computer use, Web browsers, email, word processing software]
CI 5617 - Academic Language and English Learners I
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Course Equivalencies: CI 5644/EdHD 5017/EdHD 5018
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Summer
Working with English learners and other linguistically diverse students across content areas to develop academic language proficiency. prereq: Enrolled in teacher initial licensure program
CI 5741 - Introduction to Social Studies Education
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Summer
Broad issues and themes related to social studies education, including societal context, rationale, and scope and sequence. Analysis and evaluation of selected teaching strategies, methods, and resources.
CI 5743 - The Social Sciences and the Social Studies
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall
Development of instructional strategies and contexts for exploring the social sciences as disciplines at the secondary level; central concepts and generalizations; tools of inquiry; competing structures and theories; and the relative impact of multicultural and gender-fair perspectives on the nature of history and the social sciences. prereq: Secondary social studies initial licensure student
EPSY 5015 - Teaching Students with Special Needs in Inclusive Settings
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Summer
Areas of exceptionality defined in federal/state regulations. Historical perspectives, definitions, etiology, characteristics, needs, and service delivery systems. Collaborating with special education personnel. prereq: Enrolled in a teacher initial licensure program
CI 5103 - Culture, Schools, & Communities: Human Relations II
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: S-N only
Typically offered: Every Fall
This course provides teacher candidates with the knowledge and skills to address social and cultural dimensions of education. The course then explores community partnerships that support student learning, and how teachers may navigate the social and political environment of schools and school districts to be effective advocates for their students. The course examines three themes that are interwoven throughout: professionalism, teacher leadership, and adaptive expertise. In sum, the course encourages teacher candidates to imagine both the realities and possibilities of schooling in the contemporary world. Learning experiences are made up of class meetings involving speakers, simulations, and multi?media presentations; readings; small group discussions, activities, exercises and projects. Prerequisites: Enrolled in initial teacher licensure program and successful completion of CI 5102.
CI 5164 - Child and Adolescent Development for Teaching and Learning II
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Transitions/development in which children/adolescents negotiate road to adulthood. How to foster learning/positive development. prereq: Enrolled in teacher initial licensure program
CI 5307 - Technology for Teaching and Learning
Credits: 1.5 [max 1.5]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Diverse educational technology in K-12 classrooms. Effective use of technology. Computer technologies used to stimulate personal productivity/communication and to enhance teaching/learning processes. prereq: [MEd/initial licensure or CLA music ed major or preteaching major or instr consent], basic computer skills
CI 5618 - Academic Language and English Learners II
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Prerequisites: Enrolled in teacher initial licensure program
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Spring
Working with English learners and linguistically diverse students across all content areas to develop academic language proficiency. prereq: Enrolled in teacher initial licensure program
CI 5742 - Advanced Methods of Teaching the Social Studies
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall
Focus on developing a repertoire of instructional methods that support authentic pedagogy and assessment. Enhancing reading comprehension and writing skills in the social studies. prereq: Secondary social studies initial licensure student
CI 5745 - Engaging Youth With Social Studies Texts
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Spring
Ways to engage students (grades 5-12) in social studies (textbooks, literature, speeches, editorials, political cartoons, tables, graphs, maps, film.). Developing middle/high school students' disciplinary literacy.
EPSY 5016 - Teaching Students with Special Needs in Inclusive Settings
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Attending to constant transitions/development in which children/adolescents negotiate their road to adulthood. How to foster learning/positive development. prereq: Enrolled in teacher initial licensure program
CI 5744 - Seminar: Reflecting on Professional Development in Social Studies Education
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Spring
Reflecting on teaching experience, examining social/cultural context of teaching/learning, developing a professional identity. Refining teaching and teacher research skills. prereq: Secondary social studies initial licensure student
CI 5746 - Global and Multicultural Education in the Secondary Classroom
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Spring
Issues, classroom practices, and controversies surrounding global/multicultural perspective-taking in social studies education. Strategies for helping secondary social studies students develop global/multicultural worldviews.
CI 5762 - Developing Civic Discourse in the Social Studies
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Spring & Summer
Philosophies, strategies, and research on developing civic discourse in secondary social studies classroom. Selecting issues. Democratic classroom climate. Relating to social/cultural contexts.
CI 5980 - Clinical Experiences for K-12 Teaching
Credits: 1.0 -4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Practical teaching/learning experiences in school setting. Includes co-teaching during student teaching and coaching/assessment by a university supervisor.
CI 5981 - Introduction to Equity-Based Pedagogy
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Introduces aspects of inequities in U.S. society/school. Examines how social class/poverty permeated education as social institution/classroom pedagogy. Covers five principles for social class-sensitive change/intersections between social class/other markers of difference.
CI 5982 - Enacting Equity-Based Pedagogy
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Extended study of inequities. Examines working-class literature for adults/children. Labor histories, economic systems, hierarchies of class, race, gender, sexuality, language in schools/communities.
CI 5983 - Equity-Based Pedagogy/Advocacy
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Extends study of inequities in society. Five principles for social class-sensitive change. Intersections between social class/other markers of difference such as race, gender, sexuality, language.
CI 5984 - Planning Design and Management
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Foundational understanding of being teacher, developing culturally responsive classroom, designing learning experiences. Conceptualization of teacher nationally/locally, language in classroom. Foundational concepts/tools used when facilitating learning.
CI 5985 - Academic Language and English Learners in the Content Areas
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Prepares teacher candidates to work effectively with English learners/other linguistically diverse students across all content areas. Develop students' academic language proficiency as needed for school success.
CI 5986 - Foundations of Special Education
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Skills to promote learning/success for all students, including those at risk for school failure/with special needs. Introduces research/issues emphasizing collaborative problem solving approach that facilitates effective family-professional partnerships/educational programming for individuals with disabilities.
CI 5987 - Child and Adolescent Development for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Cognitive, social, emotional development of childhood/adolescence. Ecological influences in development. Theories of learning/cognition, cognitive/social development, motivation, individual/group differences, testing/assessment, teaching methodologies, pragmatic issues.
CI 5988 - Clinical Experience: Improvement of Teaching
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Capstone project. Link theory/practice, integrate coursework with experiences in classroom.
CI 5452 - Reading in the Content Areas for Initial Licensure Candidates
Credits: 1.0 -2.0 [max 2.0]
Prerequisites: Concurrent enrollment in licensure area methods course(s), enrolled in Initial Licensure Program, Internet access, basic understanding of [computer use, Web browsers, email, word processing software]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Web-based course. Fostering students' reading related to learning from text. prereq: Concurrent enrollment in licensure area methods course(s), enrolled in Initial Licensure Program, Internet access, basic understanding of [computer use, Web browsers, email, word processing software]
CI 5211 - Elementary Education Content and Pedagogy I
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Teacher Candidates will complete eight modules on elementary content/pedagogy instruction across disciplines. Introduce various concepts/practices that will be spiraled in each subject area.
CI 5212 - Elementary Education Content and Pedagogy II
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Teacher Candidates will complete five modules on elementary content/pedagogy instruction across disciplines. Builds on various concepts/practices from introductory course. Introduces content that will be spiraled in each subject area.
CI 5213 - Elementary Education Content and Pedagogy III
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Teacher Candidates will complete six modules on elementary content/pedagogy instruction across disciplines. Builds on various concepts/practices from two previous introductory courses. Introduces content that will be spiraled in each subject area.
CI 5214 - Elementary Education Content and Pedagogy IV
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Teacher Candidates will complete five modules on elementary content/pedagogy instruction across disciplines. Builds on various concepts/practices from previous three courses. Introduces content that will be spiraled in each subject area.
CI 5215 - Elementary Education Content and Pedagogy V
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Teacher Candidates will complete five modules on elementary content/pedagogy instruction across disciplines. Builds on various concepts/practices from introductory courses. Introduces content in each subject area. Serves as conclusion to elementary ed content/pedagogy courses.
CI 5186 - School-Related Projects
Credits: 1.0 -4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Research or evaluation project related to teaching, curriculum, or other aspect of schooling. Approved and supervised by faculty advisor. prereq: MEd student
CI 5672 - Language-Focused Instructional Practices and Strategies for Dual Language/Immersion Classrooms
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Counterbalancing content with integrated focus on language and literacy development for dual language, bilingual, and immersion classrooms. Materials development; proactive/reactive instructional techniques; noticing and awareness-raising strategies; structuring student language production; differentiating for content, ability, and language. prereq: instr consent
CI 5676 - Biliteracy Development in Dual Language/Immersion Classrooms
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
This course aims to provide dual language, bilingual and language immersion educators with an understanding of the complex phenomena of literacy and biliteracy and with a range of instructional strategies for fostering literacy and biliteracy development in dual language/immersion classrooms.
CI 5980 - Clinical Experiences for K-12 Teaching
Credits: 1.0 -4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Practical teaching/learning experiences in school setting. Includes co-teaching during student teaching and coaching/assessment by a university supervisor.
CI 5981 - Introduction to Equity-Based Pedagogy
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Introduces aspects of inequities in U.S. society/school. Examines how social class/poverty permeated education as social institution/classroom pedagogy. Covers five principles for social class-sensitive change/intersections between social class/other markers of difference.
CI 5982 - Enacting Equity-Based Pedagogy
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Extended study of inequities. Examines working-class literature for adults/children. Labor histories, economic systems, hierarchies of class, race, gender, sexuality, language in schools/communities.
CI 5983 - Equity-Based Pedagogy/Advocacy
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Extends study of inequities in society. Five principles for social class-sensitive change. Intersections between social class/other markers of difference such as race, gender, sexuality, language.
CI 5984 - Planning Design and Management
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Foundational understanding of being teacher, developing culturally responsive classroom, designing learning experiences. Conceptualization of teacher nationally/locally, language in classroom. Foundational concepts/tools used when facilitating learning.
CI 5985 - Academic Language and English Learners in the Content Areas
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Prepares teacher candidates to work effectively with English learners/other linguistically diverse students across all content areas. Develop students' academic language proficiency as needed for school success.
CI 5986 - Foundations of Special Education
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Skills to promote learning/success for all students, including those at risk for school failure/with special needs. Introduces research/issues emphasizing collaborative problem solving approach that facilitates effective family-professional partnerships/educational programming for individuals with disabilities.
CI 5987 - Child and Adolescent Development for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Cognitive, social, emotional development of childhood/adolescence. Ecological influences in development. Theories of learning/cognition, cognitive/social development, motivation, individual/group differences, testing/assessment, teaching methodologies, pragmatic issues.
CI 5988 - Clinical Experience: Improvement of Teaching
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Capstone project. Link theory/practice, integrate coursework with experiences in classroom.
CI 5452 - Reading in the Content Areas for Initial Licensure Candidates
Credits: 1.0 -2.0 [max 2.0]
Prerequisites: Concurrent enrollment in licensure area methods course(s), enrolled in Initial Licensure Program, Internet access, basic understanding of [computer use, Web browsers, email, word processing software]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Web-based course. Fostering students' reading related to learning from text. prereq: Concurrent enrollment in licensure area methods course(s), enrolled in Initial Licensure Program, Internet access, basic understanding of [computer use, Web browsers, email, word processing software]
CI 5511 - Introduction to Secondary Science: Laboratory-based Instruction
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Inquiry about teaching/learning, observing/analyzing instruction, reflecting on own/each other's science teaching. How to use various instructional techniques/methods.
CI 5186 - School-Related Projects
Credits: 1.0 -4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Research or evaluation project related to teaching, curriculum, or other aspect of schooling. Approved and supervised by faculty advisor. prereq: MEd student
CI 5980 - Clinical Experiences for K-12 Teaching
Credits: 1.0 -4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Practical teaching/learning experiences in school setting. Includes co-teaching during student teaching and coaching/assessment by a university supervisor.
CI 5981 - Introduction to Equity-Based Pedagogy
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Introduces aspects of inequities in U.S. society/school. Examines how social class/poverty permeated education as social institution/classroom pedagogy. Covers five principles for social class-sensitive change/intersections between social class/other markers of difference.
CI 5982 - Enacting Equity-Based Pedagogy
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Extended study of inequities. Examines working-class literature for adults/children. Labor histories, economic systems, hierarchies of class, race, gender, sexuality, language in schools/communities.
CI 5983 - Equity-Based Pedagogy/Advocacy
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Extends study of inequities in society. Five principles for social class-sensitive change. Intersections between social class/other markers of difference such as race, gender, sexuality, language.
CI 5984 - Planning Design and Management
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Foundational understanding of being teacher, developing culturally responsive classroom, designing learning experiences. Conceptualization of teacher nationally/locally, language in classroom. Foundational concepts/tools used when facilitating learning.
CI 5985 - Academic Language and English Learners in the Content Areas
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Prepares teacher candidates to work effectively with English learners/other linguistically diverse students across all content areas. Develop students' academic language proficiency as needed for school success.
CI 5986 - Foundations of Special Education
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Skills to promote learning/success for all students, including those at risk for school failure/with special needs. Introduces research/issues emphasizing collaborative problem solving approach that facilitates effective family-professional partnerships/educational programming for individuals with disabilities.
CI 5987 - Child and Adolescent Development for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Cognitive, social, emotional development of childhood/adolescence. Ecological influences in development. Theories of learning/cognition, cognitive/social development, motivation, individual/group differences, testing/assessment, teaching methodologies, pragmatic issues.
CI 5988 - Clinical Experience: Improvement of Teaching
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Capstone project. Link theory/practice, integrate coursework with experiences in classroom.
CI 5452 - Reading in the Content Areas for Initial Licensure Candidates
Credits: 1.0 -2.0 [max 2.0]
Prerequisites: Concurrent enrollment in licensure area methods course(s), enrolled in Initial Licensure Program, Internet access, basic understanding of [computer use, Web browsers, email, word processing software]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Web-based course. Fostering students' reading related to learning from text. prereq: Concurrent enrollment in licensure area methods course(s), enrolled in Initial Licensure Program, Internet access, basic understanding of [computer use, Web browsers, email, word processing software]
CI 5511 - Introduction to Secondary Science: Laboratory-based Instruction
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Inquiry about teaching/learning, observing/analyzing instruction, reflecting on own/each other's science teaching. How to use various instructional techniques/methods.
CI 5512 - Secondary Science Methods: Understanding the Nature of Science
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Inquiry about teaching/learning, observing/analyzing instruction, reflecting on own/each other's science teaching. How to use various instructional techniques/reflect upon teaching. Develops understanding of research-based instructional methods in secondary science classrooms.
CI 5513 - Secondary Science Methods: Equity in Science Teaching
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Inquiry about teaching/learning, observing/analyzing instruction, reflecting on own/each other's science teaching. How to use various instructional techniques/reflect upon teaching. Develops understanding of equitable science teaching practices/safe student-centered classroom culture.
CI 5514 - Secondary Science Methods: The Science Learning Environment
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Inquiry about teaching/learning, observing/analyzing instruction, reflecting on science teaching. How to use various instructional techniques, reflect upon professional growth using evidence from teaching. Identify goals/instruction plans for professional practice.
CI 5515 - Secondary Science Methods: Developing Adaptive Expertise
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Inquiry about teaching/learning, observing/analyzing instruction, reflecting on science teaching. How to use various instructional techniques, reflect upon professional growth using evidence from teaching. Identify goals/instruction plans for professional practice.
CI 5186 - School-Related Projects
Credits: 1.0 -4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Research or evaluation project related to teaching, curriculum, or other aspect of schooling. Approved and supervised by faculty advisor. prereq: MEd student
CI 5980 - Clinical Experiences for K-12 Teaching
Credits: 1.0 -4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Practical teaching/learning experiences in school setting. Includes co-teaching during student teaching and coaching/assessment by a university supervisor.
CI 5981 - Introduction to Equity-Based Pedagogy
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Introduces aspects of inequities in U.S. society/school. Examines how social class/poverty permeated education as social institution/classroom pedagogy. Covers five principles for social class-sensitive change/intersections between social class/other markers of difference.
CI 5982 - Enacting Equity-Based Pedagogy
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Extended study of inequities. Examines working-class literature for adults/children. Labor histories, economic systems, hierarchies of class, race, gender, sexuality, language in schools/communities.
CI 5983 - Equity-Based Pedagogy/Advocacy
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Extends study of inequities in society. Five principles for social class-sensitive change. Intersections between social class/other markers of difference such as race, gender, sexuality, language.
CI 5984 - Planning Design and Management
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Foundational understanding of being teacher, developing culturally responsive classroom, designing learning experiences. Conceptualization of teacher nationally/locally, language in classroom. Foundational concepts/tools used when facilitating learning.
CI 5985 - Academic Language and English Learners in the Content Areas
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Prepares teacher candidates to work effectively with English learners/other linguistically diverse students across all content areas. Develop students' academic language proficiency as needed for school success.
CI 5986 - Foundations of Special Education
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Skills to promote learning/success for all students, including those at risk for school failure/with special needs. Introduces research/issues emphasizing collaborative problem solving approach that facilitates effective family-professional partnerships/educational programming for individuals with disabilities.
CI 5987 - Child and Adolescent Development for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Cognitive, social, emotional development of childhood/adolescence. Ecological influences in development. Theories of learning/cognition, cognitive/social development, motivation, individual/group differences, testing/assessment, teaching methodologies, pragmatic issues.
CI 5988 - Clinical Experience: Improvement of Teaching
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Capstone project. Link theory/practice, integrate coursework with experiences in classroom.
CI 5452 - Reading in the Content Areas for Initial Licensure Candidates
Credits: 1.0 -2.0 [max 2.0]
Prerequisites: Concurrent enrollment in licensure area methods course(s), enrolled in Initial Licensure Program, Internet access, basic understanding of [computer use, Web browsers, email, word processing software]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Web-based course. Fostering students' reading related to learning from text. prereq: Concurrent enrollment in licensure area methods course(s), enrolled in Initial Licensure Program, Internet access, basic understanding of [computer use, Web browsers, email, word processing software]
CI 5622 - Exploring Learner Language: Puzzles and Tools for the Classroom
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis: OPT No Aud
Typically offered: Every Summer
The focus of this institute is on the growth and development of learners? language, and how that growth may be enhanced by ongoing pedagogical innovation. The institute uses Exploratory Practice to promote a culture of instructor initiative in identifying and seeking to solve puzzles related to learner language development in the classroom. Participants begin with an introduction to Exploratory Practice as a framework for instructors to use in identifying and wrestling with their own puzzles about learners? language and its development in their classrooms. Participants then work together to reflect on videos of learner language as it is produced by different kinds of learners. They review theories of second language acquisition, and apply their insights to their own classrooms by learning how to set up engaging puzzle-solving activities that stimulate growth in learner language. Finally, participants learn how to design pre- and post-course measures that demonstrate the impact of their innovations in instruction on the growth of specific features and dimensions of learner language in their own classrooms.
CI 5611 - Principles of Linguistics
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Introduction to linguistics for ESL teachers. Linguistic terminology/analysis. Theories/research about first/other language learning. Analyze educational implications of language use, learning, policy.
CI 5612 - ESL Methods for Multilingual Development
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Introduction to methods of developing reading, writing, speaking, listening skills among English learners in K-12. Reflect on beliefs/ideas, cultivate orientation towards reflective teaching/life-long learning.
CI 5613 - Testing and Assessment for English Learners
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Develop awareness of/familiarity with policies, procedures, practices in use in attempting to determine academic readiness of students learning English as secondary language in American public schools.
CI 5614 - Curriculum and Materials Development for English Learners
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Explore role ESL teachers play in curriculum/materials development. Historical overview of curriculum development in second language education, factors that influence curriculum development, range of models for curriculum development tailored to English learners.
CI 5615 - Academic English for English Learners: Planning, Assessment, Instruction
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Prepares ESL teacher candidates to develop academic English skills of English learners of various proficiencies through bilingual teaching strategies. Prepares students to offer leadership with colleagues from content areas to integrate language/content. Includes focused study of advanced-level syntactic structures/completion of edTPA.
CI 5186 - School-Related Projects
Credits: 1.0 -4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Research or evaluation project related to teaching, curriculum, or other aspect of schooling. Approved and supervised by faculty advisor. prereq: MEd student