Admission to Teacher Education Program Extention of EDIS 501 with a focus on instructional strategies and ways of assessing learning outcomes. EDIS 302 or 500 Presents the various components of teaching with concentrated practice in the essential elements of the teaching act.
Additional focus is on adapting methods and materials for exceptional learners.
Curriculum selection, program design, and classroom organization are considered with commonalities across exceptionalities emphasized. Admission to Teacher Education Program Strategies and tactics to language instruction with elementary and special education students. Focus is on approaches which synthesize reading, language arts, children's literature, and creative arts in a holistic language program. Focuses on building a positive classroom environment where there is order, cooperation, psychological safety, responsible behavior, respect, and academic achievement. Major topic include control theory, reality therapy, values in the classroom, cooperative discipline, empathy building, life space interview, invitational education, child and teacher stress, and affective education.