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Students will develop expertise in working with culturally and linguistically diverse students in literacy learning. The course focuses on culturally responsive instructional strategies for literacy learning in reading, writing, and oral language to meet the cognitive, linguistic, cultural, and dispositional needs of English learners and culturally diverse learners. English language development, linguistics, academic language, assessment, family engagement, strengthening students' cultural connections, vocabulary development, comprehension strategies, writing instruction, and differentiation are major topics.

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Reading (MS)

Examines research and theory in education. Explores major research and theoretical thinking in education.

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Elementary Education (MS) | Reading (MS)

Supervised practical experiences in curricular design and development. Admission by application only.

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Investigation of effective elementary classroom instruction through multiple methods of formal and informal assessment strategies that support student engagement, student progress monitoring, and guiding instructional decision making. Examination of assessment strategies for instructional planning and evaluation to promote strong intellectual, social, emotional, and physical development which will support all elementary students.

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Education and Training

This course aims to enhance educators' skills in using formative assessment techniques that elicit evidence of elementary students' mathematics learning. Explore research-based practices that empower students as active learners. Emphasis on planning, implementing, and evaluating formative assessments, with a focus on valuing diversity in thinking, positive identity development, and providing empowering feedback.

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Elementary Math Pedagogy (GC)

This course aims to empower educators to cultivate inclusive elementary mathematics environments through a strengths-based lens. Participants will critically examine challenges in differentiation practices that can marginalize students, with an emphasis on fostering positive mathematical identities, diverse thinking, and exploring strengths-based differentiation strategies. The goal is to accommodate a variety of learners while fostering student agency.

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Elementary Math Pedagogy (GC)

Develop skills, knowledge, and dispositions related to technology use for literacy learning in the elementary classroom.

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Reading (MS)

This course will engage teacher candidates in critically analyzing children¿s texts. Teacher candidates will learn how to integrate diverse literature across the elementary curriculum. Teacher candidates will learn how to engage in critical literacy themselves, as well facilitate critical literacy discussions and tasks with elementary students that promote the learning of skills and strategies within the context of critical engagement with learning content. Teacher candidates will learn how to guide students in developing their literacy identities in order to promote reading engagement and students as independent and collaborative readers.

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Elementary Teaching (MS)

This is the first of two courses designed to equip teacher candidates with mathematical knowledge, pedagogical skills, and dispositions for fostering an inclusive classroom environment. This course explores research on how children learn mathematics, effective teaching practices, and equitable approaches. Mathematics topics addressed in this course are number quantity & counting, meaning of the operations, fact fluency, place value, computation strategies, for whole and rational numbers.

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Elementary Teaching (MS)

This course will explore practical information, assessment tools, instructional ideas and activities for effective implementation of an inquiry-based approach in elementary curriculum. Teacher candidates will focus on developing inquiry-based methods and strategies for improving student learning while linking one or more elementary content areas.

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Elementary Teaching (MS)

Understanding classrooms as part of a broader community context, this course explores strategies to collaborate with students in designing curricula. Students will learn to integrate community assets into the classroom and develop partnerships to ensure teaching reflects and engages with the local context.

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Elementary Teaching (MS)

Special teaching projects of an experiental and creative nature in the students' field of preparations.

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Education and Training

This field-based course is designed as the capstone experience for students completing the reading teacher program. The focus is on assessment and intervention experiences with struggling readers.

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Education and Training

In this course students learn about and use a variety of developmentally appropriate, motivating techniques and assessments to disrupt predictable patterns of achievement and to advance children's: oral and written language, phonemic awareness, phonics, and concepts about print. Additionally, the interdependent nature of reading, writing, listening, and speaking, stages of spelling development, and role of vocabulary and fluency in comprehension are addressed.

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Elementary Teaching (MS)

Elementary school teachers must know and understand the fundamental concepts and practices in all domains of science (physical, life, earth and space) and health education so that they can plan and effectively implement meaningful, engaging, and safe inquiry learning experiences that are accessible for all learners in the elementary classroom.

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Elementary Teaching (MS)

This course is designed to prepare teacher candidates with the understanding and application of concepts related to human diversity and interactions, structures of power, the identity of individuals and communities, and explicitly connects social studies concepts with their influence on educational experiences of diverse learners. The course addresses issues of oppression and social justice related to race/ethnicity, gender, age, class, religion, disability, physical appearance, sexual orientation and nationality.

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Elementary Teaching (MS)

This is the second of two courses designed to equip teacher candidates with mathematical knowledge, pedagogical skills, and dispositions for fostering an inclusive classroom environment. This course explores research on how children learn mathematics, effective teaching practices, and equitable approaches. Mathematics topics addressed in this course are number theory, integers, algebraic patterns, relations, and functions, data investigations, probability, geometry, measurement, and discrete mathematics concepts.

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Elementary Teaching (MS)

The first semester of a year-long student teaching experience that provides an opportunity for teacher candidates to experience fully the role of the professional elementary educator and demonstrate their ability to successfully enter the induction phase of teaching.

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Elementary Teaching (MS)

Analyze and design instruction and assessment that bridges curriculum with students¿ cultural, racial, linguistic and community assets and reflects students' diverse experiences.

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Elementary Teaching (MS)

Examines, synthesizes, and applies the research base for a problem of practice within elementary level education.

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Elementary Teaching (MS)

This field-based course is designed for students working with two-year college students and adults in reading. It provides an opportunity to implement knowledge and skills developed in coursework with this population.

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Education and Training

Opportunity for individual study on curriculum or instruction topics under direction of graduate faculty.

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Education and Training

The second semester of a year-long student teaching experience that provides an opportunity for teacher candidates to experience fully the role of the professional elementary educator and demonstrate their ability to successfully enter the induction phase of teaching.

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Education and Training

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Elementary Teaching (MS)

Seminar brings together knowledge from a variety of disciplines to help students meet the needs of learners within inclusive settings. Specific attention is given to English language support, special education services, ethical and legal issues in teaching, and the edTPA.

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Elementary Teaching (MS)

Current research, instructional techniques and materials regarding kindergarten curriculum in language arts, reading, science, mathematics, social studies, psychomotor and creative arts.

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Education and Training