TCH-ED 316      Integrated Methods: Literacy, Social Studies, and the Arts I
Focus on ways to integrate social studies content with literacy skills and artistic expression using methods and materials that are developmentally appropriate and relevant for learners from diverse backgrounds in an urban school and community.
Credits: hours
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TCH-ED 317      Integrated Methods: Literacy, Social Studies, and the Arts II
Focus on ways to integrate social studies content with literacy skills and artistic expression using methods and materials that are developmentally appropriate and relevant for learners from diverse backgrounds in an urban school and community.
Credits: hours
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TCH-ED 318      Literacy Assessment and Instruction
Focus on using formal and informal assessments to design appropriate literacy instruction for diverse learners in urban elementary classrooms.
Credits: hours
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TCH-ED 350      Multi-Media Production For The Classroom
An introductory course in the media production techniques involving knowledge and practical use of computers, scanners, digital video, digital audio and graphics to create professional multimedia for use in the classroom. The class is designed for prospective and current classroom teachers.
Credits: 1 hours
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TCH-ED 351      Literature for A Lifetime
This course will provide students with an encompassing survey of fiction and non-fiction literature appropriate for all age ranges from the young child to adult. Lectures and discussions will focus on the value of literature as a tool for thinking, as a way of illuminating modern life, as a means of understanding history and human behavior, and as a source of aesthetic pleasure and lifelong enjoyment. Students will learn how to select and critique both the media used in illustrated books and the literacy techniques and forms of the many genre of literature. In this course special emphasis will be placed on literature that reflects life in many cultures and periods of history, in particular from those racial and ethnic sources that make modern America such a pluralistic and diverse society. There will also me an emphasis on the universal themes that run through literature of the societies.Prerequisite: Must be admitted to the Institute for Urban Education.
Credits: 6 hours
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TCH-ED 365      Seminar in Teacher Identity, Power and Privilege
Focus on developing teacher candidates' knowledge of themselves and their roles in facilitating learning for diverse student populations. Acquaints pre-service teachers with three areas of multicultural education: knowing one's self, knowing diverse student populations, and knowing effective practices which will accelerate the learning of the diverse student populations.
Credits: hours
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TCH-ED 366      Field Experience: Literacy
Students will spend 100 hours working in an urban school classroom. Students will have the opportunity to apply learning and lessons designed in the semester's pedogoical courses, particulary Integrated Instruction: Language Arts and Social Studies. Students will work with their seminar leader, having the opportunity to be observed and conference about their teaching.
Credits: 1 hours
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TCH-ED 385      Teaching and Learning with Technology
This is an introductory course that covers the fundamentals of standard educational computer applications in addition to providing basic concepts regarding classroom hardware and software integration. This course familiarizes students with the National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers and Students. Because of the computer's increasing importance in all phases of education, hands-on experiences are required throughout the course.
Credits: 3 hours
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TCH-ED 397      Internship I
Teacher candidates will work with teachers and students in urban classrooms one full school day per week.
Credits: hours
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TCH-ED 398      Internship II
Teacher candidates will work with teachers and students in urban classrooms one full school day per week.
Credits: hours
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TCH-ED 399      Continuous Enrollment
A practicum experience for students delaying student teaching for one semester.
Credits: hours
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TCH-ED 400      Child Development
Intellectual and social development from birth through middle childhood and their implications for the educative process.
Credits: 3 hours
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TCH-ED 402      Integrated Arts
Basic principles of creativity and their application in the multicultural teaching of art, creative dramatics, creative movement and musical rhythmic interpretation will be explored. An emphasis will be placed on the interrelationship of these disciplines and integration into the curriculum.
Credits: 3 hours
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TCH-ED 403      Educational Psychology
This course will provide an introductory examination of psychological research and theory which have implications for, and applications to learning and instruction in interactive social contexts, such as classrooms.
Credits: 3 hours
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TCH-ED 404      Education Of The Exceptional Child And Youth
Students will be introduced to identification and educational intervention strategies for educating exceptional children and adolescents in inclusive classroom situations. This course requires a 10-hour field experience.
Credits: 3 hours
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TCH-ED 405      Practicum I
Taken in conjunction with elementary and middle school methods courses. Students are expected to spend 60 ours at classroom sites during the semester.
Credits: 1 hours
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TCH-ED 406      Practicum II: Elementary
Taken in conjunction with elementary courses. Students are expected to spend 60 hours at classroom sites during the semester.
Credits: 1 hours
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TCH-ED 407      Practicum III - Elementary
Taken in conjunction with the elementary courses. Students are expected to spend 60 hours at classroom sites during the semester.
Credits: 1 hours
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TCH-ED 408WI      Advanced Foundations
The course will concentrate on the development of a philosophical, historical and social model to assist in understanding the complexities, strengths and problems of present day education.
Credits: 3 hours
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TCH-ED 409      Curriculum and Assessment
Curriculum and Assessment is the first of a three-part course sequence designed to assist the preservice teacher in acquiring the knowledge and skills to become an effective practitioner in a world of constant change. The preservice teacher in turn will become a professional educator and facilitator of learning by developing an understanding of the varied roles and relationships that are an integral part of the teaching/learning process. This course focuses on the meaning of curriculum, the role of standards in curriculum design and implementation, the role of assessment is used to effectively enhance instruction and student learning.
Credits: 3 hours
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