ED 599 Seminar: Special Topics
This course is designed to satisfy the MAT seminar requirement. Content of the seminar and its subtitle will vary. Recent and continuing topics appear below. Emerging Technologies This graduate course provides participants with opportunities to collaborate and reflect on the ways mobile technologies such as the iPhone®, iPad®, and iPod Touch® can be used to enhance teaching and learning. Participants will explore these technologies through hands-on activities and the assessment of apps. Instructional materials are also created. (Blended learning) Learning to Learn The seminar will examine the latest information on learning theories and how they may be applied to teaching and learning. Through a series of readings, class discussions, and video footage, participants will be engaged in an in-depth study of the following topics: the many facets of learning, cognitive development including information regarding brain structure and function, inquiry-centered learning, conceptual thinking and mapping, multiple intelligences, and the appropriate uses of various kinds of formative and summative assessment models. Legal Issues for Educators This course is designed to help participants become aware of legal issues that affect schools, districts, and individuals within a school setting. Most teachers are unaware of the legal precedents that drive school-related decisions, and of the legal burdens implicit in educating and supervising students. This course will examine the legal standards to which teachers are held, and explore areas where teachers often unwittingly fall short of those standards. Participants will learn skills for avoiding problem areas, thereby saving themselves, their students, and their schools legal problems, money, and heartache. The course will also undertake a review of historical and current civil rights and constitutional issues, as well as current cases concerning educating students with special needs. Public Education as Social Change Agent Many question society's standards, and some claim that schools must play an important role in improving the moral climate. Students in this seminar address the critical issues facing our country and answer the following questions: What kind of society do I want to help create? How can schools and my discipline contribute to my vision of society? Students will also evaluate various approaches to values education.
Distribution
Teacher Education