Some certification courses are offered as classroom courses and others as directed studies. Work with the director of teacher education or with your advisor to arrange enrollments. Emphasis is placed on the areas of abuse and neglect and how they foster mental illness. Students look at methods of changing the behavior of children with problems. This course is designed to acquaint future teachers, librarians, and parents with a wide variety of literature for children and the criteria for selecting literature.
Emphasis is on developing ways to make reading a lifetime involvement.
This course examines diagnostic and remedial strategies and techniques used with elementary school children, particularly in the fields of reading and mathematics. Standardized tests, IRI, Key Math, and other diagnostic tests are explored. Students learn how to match test results with remedial strategies and develop programs for children. In this course the roles of teachers, schools, and students are explored. It is a field experience consisting of a minimum of 30 hours of classroom observation.