Courses
The program consists of 33 credit hours including:
Core Course Requirements - 15 credit hours
ED 507 - Principles of Developing and Interpreting Assessment
Units: 2
Designed to enable students to understand and use appropriate classroom assessment practices by applying knowledge of pedagogy and development to high-quality strategies for formative and summative assessment. Students will explore best practices using developmentally-appropriate assessment strategies including authentic assessment, portfolios, and electronic portfolios, real-time feedback, open-and closed-ended formal assessments, and standardized testing. Particular attention will be paid to examining the rationale for assessment, and the implications of assessment.
Offered in Fall Spring Summer
ED 508 - Exploring Diversity in Classroom and Community
Units: 3
Students will explore and apply the major philosophical and historical influences to current educational context as they relate to issues of diversity. Focus will be placed on theoretical and practical issues of diversity in classroom settings, especially related to culture, race, gender, ethnicity, language, and socio-economic levels. [Field-based experiences will be required].
Offered in Fall Spring Summer
ED 570 - Classroom Action Research
Units: 1
Provides a brief introduction to educational research focusing specifically on classroom action research. Requires admission to MAT; completion of 6 hours in the program.
Offered in Fall Spring Summer
ED 571 - Inquiry and Professional Development
Units: 1
Builds on earlier course work [ED 570] preparing students to refine an action research proposal, collect data in a school setting, write a report, and to identify resources and activities that will support their ongoing professional development; requires 9 hours of graduate credit in the MAT curriculum.
Offered in Fall Spring Summer
ECI 579 - Organization and Behavioral Management of Inclusive Classrooms
Units: 3
To increase students' knowledge of persons with high incidence disabilities [i.e., learning disability, mild intellectual disability, and serious emotional disability], and how to manage the behavior of all pupils in educational environments. Characteristics of students with high incidence disabilities will be emphasized , as well as strategies to reduce the likelihood of problem behavior of all pupils in the classroom.
Offered in Fall Spring Summer
ECI 572 - Resource Teaching In Special Education
Units: 3
Resource teaching in area of special education, with emphasis on resource teaching with students with special needs. Types of resource programs, establishment and maintenance of a program, selection of students, curriculum and materials.
Offered in Summer
ED 569 - Teaching Internship: MAT
Units: 4
A supervised teaching experience requiring a minimum of 10 consecutive full-time weeks in an appropriate school classroom. Designed to develop the knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary for teaching at the elementary, middle and/or secondary level. Includes regularly scheduled clinical observations and conferences. Requires successful completion of at least 21 hrs. in the MAT program and approval by specialty area faculty. Student responsible for transportation to placement site.
Offered in Fall and Spring
TYPE: Internship Course
Specialty Area Course Requirements
MAT Internship - 8 hours
ED 569 - Teaching Internship: MAT
Units: 4
A supervised teaching experience requiring a minimum of 10 consecutive full-time weeks in an appropriate school classroom. Designed to develop the knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary for teaching at the elementary, middle and/or secondary level. Includes regularly scheduled clinical observations and conferences. Requires successful completion of at least 21 hrs. in the MAT program and approval by specialty area faculty. Student responsible for transportation to placement site.
Offered in Fall and Spring
TYPE: Internship Course
ED 572 - Teacher Leadership
Units: 1
This course explores the multiple contexts, roles, and approaches to teacher leadership in classrooms, schools, communities, and professional organizations. Requires at least 30 credit hours in the MAT program.
Offered in Fall and Spring
EMS 570 - Methods and Materials for Teaching Mathematics
Units: 3
Purposes, methods, curricula, and evaluation practices for teaching mathematics in middle and high school levels.
Offered in Fall Only
Math Education Courses - Required
EMS 580 - Teaching Mathematics with Technology
Units: 3
Prepares prospective mathematics teachers to use technology in their classrooms to assist students in formulating and solving math problems in the middle and high school mathematics curricula.
Offered in Summer
EMS 572 - Teaching Mathematics Topics in Senior High School
Units: 3
Preparation for teaching mathematics in grades 9-12. This course includes a school-based field experience. Students are required to provide their own transportation. MED Majors only.
Offered in Spring Only
Math Education Courses - Strategies for Teaching Mathematics Content Required
Choose One
EMS 580 - Teaching Mathematics with Technology
Units: 3
Prepares prospective mathematics teachers to use technology in their classrooms to assist students in formulating and solving math problems in the middle and high school mathematics curricula.
Offered in Summer
EMS 514 - Teaching and Learning of Geometric Thinking
Units: 3
Focus will be on the development of geometric thinking in grades K-12 using multiple instructional approaches, including technology, and considered using different theories of learning and frameworks [e.g., Van Hiele, SOLO taxonomy]. Topics may include: measurement, similarity, congruence, properties of 2 and 3 dimensional figures, circles, non-Euclidean geometries. Synthetic, analytic and transformational, formal and informal approaches will be highlighted.
Offered in Fall Only
YEAR: Offered Alternate Even Years
EMS 519 - Teaching and Learning of Statistical Thinking
Units: 3
This course is designed to bridge theory and practice on how students develop understandings of key concepts in data analysis, statistics, and probability. Discussion of students' understandings, teaching strategies and the use of manipulatives and technology tools. Topics include distribution, measures of center and spread, sampling, sampling distribution, randomness, and law of large numbers. Must complete a first level graduate statistics course [ ST 507, ST 511, or equivalent] before enrolling.
Offered in Spring Only
YEAR: Offered Alternate Even Years
EMS 510 - Interactions In the Mathematics Classroom
Units: 3
This course focuses on interactions between students and teachers in the mathematics classroom. Topics studied will include: whole class instruction, small group activity, questioning and facilitating classroom discussion. This course will include a field experience in the schools for which students will be required to provide their own transportation. Course restricted to mathematics education students in the MED, MS or MAT programs.
Offered in Spring Only
YEAR: Offered Alternate Odd Years
Mathematical Sciences Courses - 6 to 12 hours
Utilizing the Pre-Admission Mathematics table select 6-12 hours of math content courses (6 hours which can be at 400 level) to complete the required 36 hours of necessary mathematics content for licensure.