ED 6107 Advanced Educational Psychology Educational Psychology is the study of how individuals are alike and different in terms of development, learning, and motivation. Cognitive, intellectual, psychosocial, and moral developmental theories and behavioral, information processing, and constructivist theories of learning are analyzed and transformed into effective teaching practices. Teachers know the subjects they teach and how to teach those subjects to students. ED 6334 Curriculum and Instruction Curriculum and Instruction is the study of how content knowledge is created, organized, linked to other disciplines and applied to real-world settings. Focus is on how to convey and reveal content knowledge to students by creating multiple paths of learning.
Teachers are responsible for managing and monitoring student learning.
ED 6336 Instructional Design Instruction Design examines a range of effective instructional techniques for elementary, middle level, and secondary teachers. Instructional decision-making models that focus on selecting content knowledge, transforming content knowledge into instructional standards, selecting appropriate teaching strategies, managing the classroom environment, assessing learning, and reflecting on the effectiveness of instructional decisions will be reviewed. Teachers think systematically about their practice and learning from experience. Critical and Creative Thinking is an analysis of learner capacities that are prerequisites for intellectual growth, which include the ability to take multiple perspectives, be creative and take risks, and adopt an experimental and problem solving orientation. Through an understanding of developmental and learning theories, accomplished teachers critically examine their teaching practices, seek to expand their repertoire, deepen their knowledge, and adapt their teaching to new ideas.