Teacher Certification Pathways

Addresses the organizational skills and alternative strategies needed to manage effectively the diversity within America’s classrooms. Analyzes teacher behaviors and their implications for classroom management. Examines the characteristics of unique individuals and their relationship to learning situations. Identifies principles of educational programming for students with exceptional needs, including collaborative models for use of support staff. Requires classroom observations in local schools. Prerequisite: EDU 206

This course will address methods and materials to prepare English language learners to enter and succeed in elementary and secondary mainstream classrooms. Prerequisite: EDU 206

For Pre-K through 4 education majors. This course focuses on the social, emotional, physical and cognitive development of children from the pre-natal stages through the elementary school years. Requires observations in local schools and child care facilities, including facilities with special needs and English Language Learners (ELL) populations. Prerequisite: PSY 110

This course will focus on development of youth from pre-adolescence to late adolescence and emerging adulthood. The interrelationship of physical, social, emotional development with cognition and learning will be examined. Implications for pedagogical approaches and varied curriculum components will be evaluated. This course would be of value for in-service teachers, case workers, youth ministry and other adults who interact with teenagers. Prerequisite: PSY 110

A pragmatically oriented study of learning processes and factors that stimulate and impede those processes. Psychological testing, methods of measuring and evaluating learning. Special needs of learners with exceptionalities and racial and ethnic minorities. Techniques of interpersonal relations and classroom management. Observation in local schools and other institutions. Prerequisite: PSY 110.