Education Courses
EDUC119 First Year Seminar for Education Students
[Minimum Semester Hours: 1 sh; Maximum Semester Hours: 1 sh]
Designed to embed education program requirements into a required course and to support student achievement of Education program requirements. Must be taken by all Elementary Education majors.
Prerequisite: None
Corequisite: None
EDUC212 Classroom Management in the Middle and Secondary School Setting
[Minimum Semester Hours: 2 sh; Maximum Semester Hours: 2 sh]
Examines behaviors that characterize this age group and helps teachers understand why adolescents behave as they do. Included are a variety of teaching methods and activities to stimulate and reinforce desirable behavior, effectively respond to undesirable behavior, and extinguish inappropriate behavior.
Prerequisite: None
Corequisite: None
EDUC330 Classroom Management in the Elementary and Middle School Setting
[Minimum Semester Hours: 3 sh; Maximum Semester Hours: 3 sh]
Offers a holistic view beginning with a variety of methods and activities for helping
teachers build positive learning environments (a community of learners), improve relations
in the classroom (a broader community), and cope with challenging behaviors and special
abilities. The teacher is viewed as a model and facilitator, a supervisor of instruction
which is called to fashion environments that invite exploration, inquiry, and positive
self-concepts by drawing from research in psychology and sociology.
Prerequisite: EDUC204
Corequisite: None
EDUC335 Assessment and Differentiation
[Minimum Semester Hours: 3 sh; Maximum Semester Hours: 3 sh]
An investigation into the design and evaluation of assessments for student performance in the elementary classroom. Differentiated instruction and assessment will be addressed for K-8 learners including English Language Learners (ELL).
Prerequisite: None
Corequisite: None
EDUC340 Classroom Management
[Minimum Semester Hours: 3 sh; Maximum Semester Hours: 3 sh]
Classroom teachers are struggling to cope with an increasing number of student behavioral problems. This course will present strategies designed to stop discipline problems before they start. Building a positive learning environment, techniques for improving teacher-pupil relationships, and coping with disruptive behaviors will be studied. Based on sound, carefully researched theory, the course will offer a variety of methods and activities designed to help teachers implement management strategies.
Prerequisite: None
Corequisite: None
EDUC346 Disciplinary Literacy
[Minimum Semester Hours: 3 sh; Maximum Semester Hours: 3 sh]
A study of the process of how to teach reading and writing to grades 3-8 learners in all curricular areas. Focus will be on the demands that readers face when reading disciplinary-specific texts.
Prerequisite: None
Corequisite: None
EDUC444 Summer Urban Seminar
[Minimum Semester Hours: 3 sh; Maximum Semester Hours: 3 sh]
Provides an extended first-hand encounter with urban culture. It is intended to expand the opportunities of undergraduate teacher education students to work with diverse students in urban settings. The seminar includes a mix of carefully planned school, community, and cultural experiences. One of its unique features is an intensive community service project in which all students will participate during the weekend they are in Philadelphia. Open to all education majors who have complete 48 sh of work. Open to other majors as space permits. Offered very early Summer.
Prerequisite: None
Corequisite: None
EDUC472 Literacy and Language Arts: Elementary Professional Semester
[Minimum Semester Hours: 3 sh; Maximum Semester Hours: 3 sh]
Taken only as a part of the Elementary Professional Semester. Designed to place emphasis on mastering methods, strategies and techniques and on using materials appropriately for a balanced literacy program. The course focuses on instruction and evaluation of writing, reading, speaking, and listening abilities plus the integration of these developing abilities across curriculums, standards and instructional designs. Current literacy policies, research based practices, and educational curriculums are stressed. This course is open to students who meet requirements for enrollment in the Elementary Professional Semester.
Prerequisite: READ300
Corequisite: None
EDUC473 Social Studies Methods: Elementary Professional Semester
[Minimum Semester Hours: 3 sh; Maximum Semester Hours: 3sh ]
Taken only as part of the Elementary Professional Semester. Development of concepts and skills for effective instruction in all aspects of the Social Studies. Interdisciplinary unit studies are stressed. Students prepare lesson and unit plans, work in teams, present demonstration lessons to peers and evaluate instructional materials. Students learn how to access reference literature and teaching materials, locate experts and other resource personnel for classroom activities as well as for activities outside of the classroom.
Prerequisite: None
Corequisite: None
EDUC474 Science Methods: Elementary Professional Semester
[Minimum Semester Hours: 3 sh; Maximum Semester Hours: 3sh ]
Students practice techniques for teaching science to elementary children. The use
of discovery learning is stressed. Sciecne is treated more as a process than as a
body of knowledge. Commercially produced science programs are reviewed; students create
hands-on files, review and react in writing to science readings, create a science
project and present it to children, and students prepare lessons to present ot peers
and children from the local schools. The use of manipulatives is required. Students
study for, prepare and teach a coordinated set of activities in environmental studies
including field trips to the University's conference center or other outdoor facilities.
Prerequisite: None
Corequisite: None
EDUC475 Teaching of Mathematics in the Elementary School: Elementary Professional
Semester
[Minimum Semester Hours: 3 sh; Maximum Semester Hours: 3 sh]
Students learn techniques for teaching mathematics to elementary students according
to the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Process Standards and the
PA State Math Standards. Emphasis is given to appropriate progression from the concrete
to the abstract in all learning. Use of manipulatives is required. The use of strategies
to make content accessible to ALL students is a priority. Much time is spent cultivating
a positive attitude toward mathematics. Discovery learning, interdisciplinary study
and the use of technology are woven into the course. Scheduled concurrently with subject
matter methods and Clinical Field Experience.
Prerequisite: None
Corequisite: None
EDUC476 Creating Classroom Environments: Elementary Professional Semester
[Minimum Semester Hours: 2 sh; Maximum Semester Hours: 2 sh]
Provides specific information and strategies for organizing, planning and implementing instruction in a classroom and creating a positive, productive atmosphere for learning. Questioning, listening and management techniques are stressed. Methods for helping learners become self-disciplined are emphasized and techniques for dealing with unacceptable behavior are considered in depth. Since this course is usually taken concurrently with other courses in teaching methods and with a required field experience course, all topics are consciously integrated with those of the other courses. In addition to mastering the various techniques considered, students are expected to develop a philosophical basis for creating an ordered classroom.
Prerequisite: None
Corequisite: None
EDUC477 Clinical Field Experiences: Elementary Professional Semester
[Minimum Semester Hours: 2 sh; Maximum Semester Hours: 2 sh]
This laboratory course assists the student in synthesizing theory and content from a variety of a pre-professional courses and requires students to put this theory and content into practice during actual teaching of elementary school children. Students plan, teach and analyze segments of instruction under the supervision of college instructors in area school classrooms.
Prerequisite: None
Corequisite: None
EDUC478 Intro Educational Computing: Elementary Professional Semester
[Minimum Semester Hours: 2 sh; Maximum Semester Hours: 2 sh]
Provides basic skills in the uses of microcomputers in educational settings and background about computer technology. Courseware in various instructional subject areas is examined and evaluated. Several modes for Computer-Aided Learning are demonstrated and experienced. Students receive an introduction to computer terminology, system components, operation, general uses of computers and resulting implications for society.
Prerequisite: None
Corequisite: None
EDUC493 Student Teaching and Professional Practicum: Elementary 1
[Minimum Semester Hours: 6 sh; Maximum Semester Hours: 6 sh]
The capstone experience for preservice teachers. Two student teaching experiences are provided at two levels (appropriate to certification areas and grade level ranges). Supervised practice in classrooms with certified teachers introduces the student to all aspects of the teaching day. University professors supervise the student teachers and conduct weekly practicum sessions.
Prerequisite: None
Corequisite: None
EDUC494 Student Teaching and Professional Practicum: Elementary 2
[Minimum Semester Hours: 6 sh; Maximum Semester Hours: 6 sh]
The capstone experience for preservice teachers. Two student teaching experiences are provided at two levels (appropriate to certification areas and grade level ranges). Supervised practice in classrooms with certified teachers introduces the student to all aspects of the teaching day. University professors supervise the student teachers and conduct weekly practicum sessions.
Prerequisite: None
Corequisite: None
