2012-2013 Academic Catalog
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EDE 3942 Field Experience I
3 sh (may not be repeated for credit)
Prerequisite: EDE 4200, EDF 3234
Co-requisite: EDE4200
This field experience includes integrating reading standards and ESOL competencies across the curriculum through carefully planned and designed course assignments. Through this experience students will work in a variety of setting that simulate a classroom experience. Students will also complete a minimum of 100 hours in a field placement. Successful students will also demonstrate proficiency on the Educator Accomplished Practices Competencies and ESOL Performance Standards. This experience includes: observation, planning, adapting, delivering, and evaluating units that include curriculum materials, activities, and assessments of students from diverse backgrounds, i.e., culturally and linguistically diverse (Limited English Proficient - (LEP), and students at risk for school failure.) Graded on a Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory basis only. Permission is required.
EDE 3948 Service Learning Field Study II
1-3 sh (may be repeated for up to 4.0 sh of credit)
Placement in community agency or other social organizational setting related to field of study. Supervision by faculty and agency. Students and faculty "customize" courses to fit a full range of services that are available in the setting. Student must be able to draw correlation between the discipline and field study. Journal and reflective experience paper are required. With the agreement of the student's faculty sponsor, a minimum of 4-6 hours per week must be done at the field site per semester hour of credit. Permission is required.
EDE 4200 Planning and Curriculum I
3 sh (may not be repeated for credit)
Designed to assist students to learn basic planning and instructional skills in preparation for teaching. Course also includes essential mathematics skills requisite to the Florida Teacher Certification Exam. Students will implement the knowledge gained through lower division content-specific courses and prepare for the methodological courses in the teacher education program.
EDE 4201 Planning and Curriculum II
3 sh (may not be repeated for credit)
Prerequisite: EDE 4200, and a minimum of two of the three methods courses (LAE 3314, MAE 4310, and SCE 4310).
Co-requisite: One of the three methods courses (LAE 3314, MAE 4310, and SCE 4310).
Designed to assist prospective teachers to use their knowledge of content and pedagogical methods as a basis for developing skills in planning integrated elementary curriculum. Students will implement the knowledge gained through lower division content-specific courses and upper division methods courses to create interdisciplinary units of instruction that are designed to facilitate elementary children's learning across all content areas. Emphasis will be placed on creating developmentally appropriate units that meet the needs of both elementary and primary children, taking into account Gardner's multiple intelligences; and the special needs of ESOL and exceptional students. Additionally, demonstration teaching, and constructing and scoring classroom assessments that allow children to show what they know and understand are a focus of the course work.
EDE 4302 Instruction, Management, and Assessment-Elementary
3 sh (may not be repeated for credit)
Strategies for managing the classroom, instruction and evaluation as they relate to teaching the essential school competencies.
EDE 4421 Educational Assessment
3 sh (may not be repeated for credit)
Designed for all students in Teacher Education and focuses on assessment concepts that are critical for good teaching. Topics include (1) measurement issues to determine assessment quality; (2) teacher constructed assessments such as paper and pencil assessments, informal assessments, and performance and product assessments; (3) interpreting standardized assessments commonly used in public schools.
EDE 4944 Field Experience 2
3 sh (may not be repeated for credit)
Prerequisite: EDE 3942, TSL 4081
Co-requisite: TSL4081
This field experience includes integrating reading standards and ESOL competencies across the curriculum through carefully planned and designed course assignments. Through this experience students will work in a variety of settings that simulate a classroom experience. Students will also complete a minimum of 100 hours in a field placement, with 25 hours devoted to an ESOL placement. Successful students will also demonstrate proficiency on the Educator Accomplished Practices Competencies and ESOL Performance Standards. This experience includes: observation, planning, adapting, delivering, and evaluating units that include curriculum materials, activities, and assessments of students from diverse backgrounds, i.e., culturally and linguistically diverse (Limited English Proficient - (LEP), and students at risk for school failure.) Graded on a Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory basis only. Permission is required.
EDE 6206 Integrated Curriculum and Instruction/Elementary Education
3 sh (may not be repeated for credit)
An advanced curriculum course for graduate elementary level education students. Format is a combination of classroom instruction and student engagement focusing on integration of the content areas and a project in which the student applies learning and conducts research. The emphasis of instruction is integration, best practices in the content areas, accomplished practices in teaching, contextual learning, constructivism, cooperative learning, interdisciplinary instruction, mental habits, multiple intelligences, Sunshine State Standards, and assessment strategies.
EDE 6268 School Involvement and Community Relations
3 sh (may not be repeated for credit)
Techniques and strategies for developing and implementing effective home, school, community involvement programs at the elementary level. Emphasis will be placed on materials and techniques for communicating effectively with families from a variety of cultural backgrounds and the implications for industrial, labor and community relations as they impact the elementary level.
EDE 6303 Teaching Science and Social Studies in the Elementary School
3 sh (may not be repeated for credit)
Assists teachers in developing competence and confidence needed to teach science and social studies in the elementary classroom. Focuses on (4) primary components of understanding science and social studies teaching: 1) the nature of science and the social sciences, the activities of individuals who work in these fields and their relationship to elementary curricula, 2) the role of the child as scientist and student of the sciences, 3) the role of the child as a citizen, historian and learner of the social sciences, 4) the role of the teacher in facilitating children's learning.
EDE 6305 Graduate Kodaly Method
3 sh (may not be repeated for credit)
Offers the student the opportunity to study the Kodaly Method of teaching elementary students. The course will take an in-depth look at training young singers using the Kodaly Method and will include a brief history of the method and an update on current practices. Permission is required.
EDE 6482 Research Practicum
3 sh (may not be repeated for credit)
Identification of a problem in the area of Elementary Education review of pertinent literature and preparation of a proposal with all the necessary information, conducting research in a professional manner, evaluation and written report of the results. Students successfully completing this course will be allowed to register for Action Research.
EDE 6506 Classroom Management for Elementary Environments
3 sh (may not be repeated for credit)
Provides an in-depth understanding of the interactions among the social, emotional, and cognitive characteristics of the pre and early adolescent and effective management of elementary classroom student and behavior.
EDE 6521 Practical Applications and Issues in Classroom Management: Elementary Education
3 sh (may not be repeated for credit)
Analyze professional literature focused on best practices and ecological variables associated with teacher and student behavior and perceptions to develop practical responses and individual best practices for elementary classroom management. Develop a knowledge base of classroom management practices and applications for individual, small group, and large groups in student respective grade level or educational setting.
EDE 6911 Action Research
3 sh (may be repeated for up to 6.0 sh of credit)
Prerequisite: EDE 6482
Implementation of proposal prepared in Research Practicum including identification of a problem in the area of Elementary Education, review of pertinent literature and preparation of a proposal with all the necessary information, conducting research in a professional manner, evaluation and written report of the results. Graded on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis only.
EDE 6941 Graduate Methods/ESOL/Reading Practicum: Elementary Education
3 sh (may not be repeated for credit)
Implementation of a well-researched teaching approach not previously used by the candidate; maintenance of a log to indicate adaptations required and conclusions drawn about the impact of the new approach on pupil's achievement; a professionally written report stating the approach used, the goal of the practicum, a brief review of related literature, a summary of the practicum experiences and a statement of the conclusions reached about methods, ESOL and reading strategies is included.