Philosophical principles underlying education, with implications for the purposes, content and methods of schooling. An introduction to the concept of exceptionality, dealing with the educational implications of atypical child growth and development. Additionally, each student will learn how to connect with and use computer systems to establish communications with other students, the faculty, and administration associated with the Elementary Teacher Education Program. Reading and writing instruction across the curriculum, applied to subject matter taught in secondary schools. A study of current techniques in the teaching of reading.
Emphasis is on prevention and solution of reading difficulties.
This course will focus on developing skills in using various models of teaching and evaluation. Review of the fundamentals of mathematics, emphasizing problem solving, number relationships, applications, graphic representations, and investigation of the number systems. Topics included are history of systems of numeration, properties, and algorithms of a number system, numbers in other bases, sets, algebra, and geometry. Full time experience, five days a week, participating and teaching under supervision in an assigned classroom of an area elementary school. A weekly seminar is held to debrief experiences, and five times a semester each student meets with an University Supervisor.