072 Teaching Students With Special Needs
In
this course students examine a variety of ways
that teachers understand learners and design
instruction in response to those learners.
Students explore a range of strategies used by
teachers to accommodate the needs of all
students and discuss ways to evaluate student
learning strengths and needs. (McCabe, Spring,
offered annually)
073 Assessments and IEPs
This seminar focuses
on the appropriate uses and limitations of some
of the assessment tools used in special education.
Alternate and adaptive assessment approaches
are considered. Students are also introduced to
the process of developing an IEP. (Staff, Fall,
offered annually)
074 Collaboration and Management
This
seminar investigates a variety of collaborative
and management approaches effective teachers
utilize. Students first explore the special
education teacher’s participation as a member of
school district and building level interdisciplinary
teams and as a team collaborator with
general education teaching colleagues. Students
then carefully consider the special education
teacher’s role as an advocate for students with
special needs and their families. Finally, students
examine classroom management strategies that
promote a positive teaching-learning environment
that supports all students. (Staff, Fall and
Spring, offered annually)
081 Teaching for Equity
This seminar
establishes the foundations for effective teaching.
As students develop keen observation skills they
examine human development processes as
manifested in classrooms. They explore the
teacher’s complex role as well as the social
context of schools. They are introduced to
learning processes as they relate to motivation,
lesson planning, and classroom management, and they also study student diversity issues to insure
that the needs of all students are met. In
addition, the seminar outlines a framework for
special education, IDEA, and curricular and
instructional adaptation. (Banks, Collins,
Sherman, Fall, offered annually)
082-01 Teaching Reading and Writing—
Elementary
This seminar, in conjunction with
the accompanying field placement, shows
students contemporary approaches for assessing
and teaching reading and writing in elementary
schools. Topics include emergent literacy and
beginning reading, as well as encouraging reading
for pleasure and promoting reading and writing
to learn. Attention is given to issues of
vocabulary, phonological awareness, phonics,
word recognition, fluency, and comprehension as
encouraged by New York State Learning
Standards and the No Child Left Behind Act.
(Temple, Spring, offered annually)
082-02 Teaching Reading and Writing—
Secondary
This seminar shows students how to
use reading and writing to learn in secondary
classrooms, including English as well as other
disciplines. By taking the seminar and trying out
the techniques in their accompanying field
placement, students consider how to teach study
skills, how to teach reading for meaning and for
application, and how to promote writing in a
range of genres, including as an aid to learning
content subjects. (Temple, Fall, offered annually)
083-01 Teaching Elementary Science and Math
This seminar focuses on how children develop
mental and manipulation skills that help them
construct science and math meanings. Emphasis
is on process skills, employing a variety of
teaching models, and technology. Students
assess, analyze, and adapt curriculum for science
and math. They are encouraged to be reflective
about their practice. Local, state, and national
resources are available with emphasis on New
York State Learning Standards. (Kehle,
MaKinster, Fall, offered annually)
083-02 Teaching Secondary Science
This
seminar focuses on inquiry teaching and learning
approaches to science. Students engage in a
variety of science activities designed to model
different teaching strategies. They analyze their
lessons, incorporate technology where appropriate,
and adapt curriculum to meet the needs of
all students. Students are encouraged to be
reflective about their practice. Local, state and
national resources are addressed with an
emphasis on New York State Learning Standards.
(MaKinster, Spring, offered annually)
083-03 Teaching Secondary Social Studies
The
purpose of this seminar is to acquaint students
with social studies teacher certification
requirements, the literature and professional
organizations that serve as resources in social
studies instruction, the process and substance of
curriculum (with emphasis on New York State
Learning Standards), and issues that are central
to social studies instruction in the United States.
Included in the course are the use of instructional
technology in teaching, evaluative techniques,
and integrating the social dimension into
geographic concepts. Readings include the New
York State Resource Guide, Llewellyn’s Fragments
from the Fire, selected literature for young people,
and selected articles from social studies journals.
(Banks, Gibbon, Spring, offered annually)
083-04 Teaching Secondary English
This
seminar examines the theoretical and practical
applications of effective teaching and learning in
secondary English classrooms. Students reflect on
their field-based experiences in secondary school
settings and make connections to the reading and
writing processes. They design, assess and analyze
lessons that incorporate the New York State
Learning Standards, adapting the curriculum to
meet the needs of all students when appropriate.
They review the journals and organizations that
support the profession and develop an understanding
of educational technology and its
function in the English classroom. (Staff, Spring,
offered annually)
083-05 Teaching Secondary Foreign Language
This seminar addresses teaching, learning, and
curriculum for students pursuing adolescence
certification to teach a foreign language. After
studying second language acquisition, students
explore methods and techniques of teaching a
language other than English as well as ways of
developing cross-cultural understanding among
adolescents. In addition to becoming familiar with
New York State Learning Standards for teaching
foreign language and other resources for teaching
language, students explore ways to utilize
technology and discuss means of assessing student
achievement. (Staff, Spring, offered annually)
083-06 Teaching Secondary Math
This seminar
focuses on mathematics pedagogy that emphasizes
problem solving, connections between mathematics
and other disciplines, student-centered
discourse, and authentic assessment in the
contexts of New York State and national
standards. Students develop and analyze lessons
that incorporate appropriate technology to meet
the needs of diverse student populations.
Students reflect on their experiences in the
concurrent field placement. (Kehle, Spring,
offered annually)
083-07 Teaching the Arts (P-12)
This seminar
addresses the theory and practice of teaching the
arts. After examining the artistic development of
students in preschool through high school,
students concentrate on developing methods of
teaching the arts at all grade levels. Students
design and critique arts lessons which meet the
New York State Learning Standards for the Arts.
Students also examine methods and techniques
for assessing student performance in the arts,
discuss ways of adapting arts activities to meet
the needs of all students, and explore means of
teaching the arts across the curriculum. (Staff,
Spring, offered annually)
084 Curriculum and Instruction
In this
seminar, students examine long-term curriculum
development. After discussing curriculum theory
students choose a theme in an area of the
curriculum which they wish to explore and
develop a “curriculum project” (short course or
teaching unit) which could be used to teach
their specific theme over a period of several
weeks. Attention is given to aligning curricula
with New York State Learning Standards and
developing integrated curricula as well as
adapting curricula for students with special
needs. Students also examine a number of
models of teaching. Groups of students are
assigned different models of teaching, design
lesson plans illustrating those models, and
present those lessons for analysis. Assessment is
also discussed in terms of the curriculum projects
which students develop. (Collins, Sherman,
Spring, offered annually)
085 Protecting Children: Policies and Practices
This seminar focuses on three main areas of
special need: substance abuse, identification and
reporting of child abuse and maltreatment, and
families in conflict. Students are informed about
alcohol and other drugs, the physical and
behavioral indicators of substance abuse, and
mandated reporting procedures. The seminar
provides an array of options for teachers who are
confronted by problems raised by substance
abuse. Students are given alternative means for
creating safe and nurturing learning environments
for all students, including instruction in
fire and arson prevention, preventing child
abduction, and providing safety education.
Family dynamics, factors in the home, and the
development of a sense of community and
mutual respect are given special consideration.
(Staff, Fall and Spring, offered annually)
091 Tutor Practicum I (Offered annually)
092 Tutor Practicum II (Offered annually)
093 Assistant Teacher Practicum I (Offered
annually)
094 Assistant Teacher Practicum II (Offered
annually) |
The
Education Department offers a range of teacher certification seminars,
open only to those students in the teacher certification program. Click on each individual
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