This course provides teachers with theories and definitions of creativity, creative problem solving strategies, questioning skills, and activities that challenge students to interact with the world in new, unusual, and mind-opening ways. This course emphasizes learning strategies suited to gifted, talented, and creative students. These strategies highlight each student's unique combination of skills, multiple intelligences, and capacities for self-expression, using individual activities, cooperative groups, and multicultural perspectives. Consent of the Director of the Graduate Program or admission to the Master of Education Program. Students become acquainted with historical, descriptive, and experimental studies and learn appropriate techniques for research documentation.
Students develop a research proposal.
Required for the Teacher Leadership concentration. The proposal that was developed in the Principles of Educational Research course is expanded into the development of a classroom action research project. Data collection techniques that can be applied in an authentic classroom are studied and practiced. Students write the introduction and methods section of their classroom action research projects. Opportunities for peer editing and coaching are provided.