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On-the-job training. Work is jointly supervised by the academic unit and the cooperating institution.
Student and faculty agree upon a specific unit of study. Student presents unit to faculty member for evaluation.
Study of interpersonal communication skills, self-esteem, classroom relationships, and cultural diversity applied to educational settings. This course meets the state of Minnesota human relations requirements for teacher licensure.
Online companion course for students traveling abroad. Pre-departure readings, discussions and research prepare you for experience traveling in international locations while incorporating a comparative study of two cultures. The course focuses on development of cultural knowledge, critical thinking and interpersonal communication skills and dispositions that enhance a study abroad experience and the students ability to engage in a global society. An overview of a variety of topics, including art, architecture, economic development and history enhances the comparison and contrast. Students register for a Short Course in the semester prior to departure and continue on D2L during Study Abroad Experience.
Specific focus on an educational topic that may be taught as a regular course such as: Topic: Web Resources for the Classroom (usually a group requests a specific topic).
In this course, teacher candidates will learn instructional design principles to prepare to use current and emerging technologies in ways that will be accessible, equitable, culturally relevant, engaging and supportive to students. Candidates will use a critical lens to analyze and evaluate potential uses, challenges, and limitation of technology tools with an emphasis on safe, legal, and ethical uses.
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This course introduces learners to foundational theory, research, and pedagogy for culturally responsive, relevant, and sustaining practices. Learners will examine strategies to develop equity-minded approaches that cultivate an inclusive and safe learning environment. Learners will integrate students' cultural and educational experiences to inform teaching and learning practices.
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The purpose of this course is for teacher candidates to engage in self-reflection to deeply explore their personal intersectional identities. Furthermore, teacher candidates will examine historic and ongoing systemic inequities in education. Teacher candidates will analyze the implications of systemic oppression on pedagogy, curriculum, communication, relationships, and learning in classrooms. Finally, teacher candidates will explore creating learning opportunities for students to critique historical and current inequity and injustices in education and to make change.
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The purpose of this course is for teacher candidates to apply a critical lens to unit and lesson planning that fosters social and emotional learning, critical thinking, discussion, engagement, and inquiry. Teacher candidates will also explore methods to develop equitable, accessible, and culturally relevant learning experiences to eliminate barriers to learning.
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The focus of this course is reading as it applies to middle and secondary schools. Current issues and trends in reading will be examined. This includes best practice methodologies including a balanced approached to literacy. The course will develop student knowledge of phonemic awareness and decoding skills, fluency, vocabulary development, and text comprehension in content area literacy.
In this course, teacher candidates will explore strategies to build strong relationships with and advocate for students, families, and the community. Candidates will examine ways that the curriculum addresses multiple perspectives, cultures and backgrounds to emphasize culturally relevant learning experiences. They will explore professional responsibilities and teacher leadership roles. Finally, teachers will examine methods to use data and information gathered from the students, school, and caregivers to advocate and support students for positive change.
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In this course teacher candidates will critically explore asset-based pedagogy grounded in anti-racist, culturally relevant, and responsive practices to differentiate instruction. Additionally, teacher candidates will explore their intersectional identity and the importance of ongoing self-reflective practices necessary to cultivate identity affirming learning environments and experiences for students. Finally, teacher candidates examine instructional strategies that model and explain concepts and skills in multiple ways to support the diverse needs of students.
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The research process is one that is complicated, and nonlinear, and very often difficult for students to understand and see its strengths and weaknesses. This course will introduce students to research methodologies as applied to research and evaluation. The course will focus on developing skills and applying different methodologies in a research plan.
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Designed to provide a learning experience in utilizing techniques and procedures in scholarly writing.
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Classroom teachers will learn how to conduct research in their classrooms that is designed to improve student learning.
Learners will develop effective and equitable instruction to improve student achievement through differentiated, critical thinking, cooperative, and problem-based curriculum and instruction. Learners will learn about and apply best practices to meet the needs of diverse student populations through increased student-teacher, student-student and student-community relationships. Learners will explore, recognize, and mitigate personal and cultural biases in instruction practices in order to apply effective and equitable student-centered learning.
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Selected topics explored for secondary teaching. May be repeated.
Learners will develop expertise using technology tools to address individual student needs. In this course, learners will explore the assumptions, biases and limitations of integrating technology tools, and the implications of those for teaching and student learning. Through the use of technology integration frameworks, learners will evaluate implications of both access and opportunity of using technology teaching, learning, and assessment. This course will also explore ways in which technology can both be an avenue towards social justice in education and how technology can exacerbate inequities.
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The trends format provides teachers and others opportunity to study recent research and current developments with an interdisciplinary nature to include a variety of topics. This course may be in a shortened hands-on format. May be repeated.
This course will examine, acquire, evaluate and use reference media sources to meet the information needs of a media center's clientele. Participants will examine and review bibliographic resources and their relationship to instruction and instructional in-service. Emphasis will be placed on reading, discussing, selecting, and evaluating resources in the context of curricular issues, cooperative endeavors with other libraries and trends in the information and reference services field.
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Students will learn and practice selecting, evaluating, and using print, audiovisual and electronic media for children in grades K-6. Participants will learn to identify and discuss a variety of genre; using reviewing sources and selection tools; identify major children's book awards; research authors and books; become knowledgeable about current issues such as censorship; locate and prepare a multiple format mediaography of children's materials and demonstrate curricular uses of this media.
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This course will provide the learners with reflective and practical experiences for the integration of accessibility, technology and learning. Students will explore student characteristics and needs, learning goals and experiences, accessibility tools, differentiated instruction, and technology to design and evaluate integrated lesson plans.
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KSP 630 (3) Materials for Young AdultsThis course covers developmentally appropriate library and information services for young adults, ages 11-18 with an emphasis on literature and the uses of literature in schools and libraries. The course includes material on non-book services, programming, and other services specific to this age group.
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In this course, teacher candidates will explore strategies to cultivate learning experiences that are equitable, culturally relevant, justice-oriented, student-centered, and meaningful. Candidates will have an opportunity to create a unit plan, rubric, and formative and summative assessments that emphasize multiple ways of expressing learning. Furthermore, candidates will examine grading practices and methods for sharing feedback that supports learner variability and facilitates student ownership of their learning.
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The course will examine the role of the school librarian in the literacy development process. This process includes the ability to read, write and interact across a range of platforms, tools and media. The roles of the school librarian as teacher, instructional partner, information specialist, and program administrator will be addressed.
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