This course is a study of the personnel function in educational organizations. Designed to explore techniques and problems of staff-personnel relationships in contemporary education. This course will explore different uses of writing to learn across the disciplines. Readings and discussions will focus on the development of writing and reading strategies that promote greater learning and understanding of content areas, the use of writing to teach the SOL in different content areas, and the design of effective methods to evaluate and assess writing. This is a survey course that explores addiction as a process including Alcohol and Drug Dependency.
Students learn the origins of addiction and experience first hand recovery programs and treatment.
This course is designed to provide the student with the skills and knowledge to assess and evaluate programs designed for the young child in a care-giving facility. Attention will be placed on assessment of the needs of a quality pre-school program and at various stages of the implementation of the program, which will allow the student to make a final evaluation of the quality of the existing program. Curriculum Development A study of the fundamental aspects of school curriculum developments and the basic issues underlying curriculum planning. This course provides for the study of the place and function of the school in American social life and investigation of community agencies and institutions, including those concerned with drugs and behavior, which may be utilized in the interpretation of the school to the community. This is a one-semester course designed to provide students with a sound basis for interpretation and evaluation of present day educational theories and practices by tracing the influence of historical, sociological, philosophical, psychological, and religious views upon the development of the education process.