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Syllabus For Social Foundations Of Education, Laura Kates Oct 2024

Syllabus For Social Foundations Of Education, Laura Kates

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Eds 702: The Young Child With Special Needs, Lingyu Li Apr 2024

Eds 702: The Young Child With Special Needs, Lingyu Li

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This introductory course addresses the concept of disability and the field of special education. It will also consider the social, cultural, and economic context surrounding the education of young children (birth to 8 years) with a wide range of developmental delays and disability conditions. Pertinent legislation, intervention with families, developing Individualized Family Service Plans (IFSPs), Individualized Education Programs (IEPs), and issues of advocacy will be studied within the context of the continuum of service delivery (home-based, center-based, and school-based interventions). (15 fieldwork hours required.)


Art In Education Workshop: Art Education For Classroom Teachers, Katherine A. Gordon Jan 2024

Art In Education Workshop: Art Education For Classroom Teachers, Katherine A. Gordon

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Art in Education Workshop: Art Education for Classroom Teachers. This syllabus provides the guidelines for a ‘zero textbook’ Art Education Course for students who are pre-service or in-service classroom teachers in Early Childhood Education & Elementary Education. The syllabus includes links for assigned readings, videos, & podcasts about teaching studio projects in a range of media, as well as introductions to contemporary & historical artists who work in these media; prompts and guiding questions for students’ response to these weekly assignments follow each set of texts. The course supports Culturally Responsive & Sustaining Teaching (CRST) and incorporates Universal Design for …


Ece 302 Children, Families, Communities, And Schools In Sociocultural Contexts—Birth To Grade 6, Lisa Cavallero Jan 2022

Ece 302 Children, Families, Communities, And Schools In Sociocultural Contexts—Birth To Grade 6, Lisa Cavallero

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Topics covered in this course include: home, school, and community influences, family diversity, roles and experiences of families, early learning, special needs, protecting children, influences of the home and community, working with families.

This course outline includes:

  • all assignments for the course (link to assignments packet).
  • links to lecture slides
  • instructor notes
  • additional resources

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Computational Thinking For Teachers, Susan Imberman Dec 2021

Computational Thinking For Teachers, Susan Imberman

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This is a syllabus for a course in computational thinking. The course described introduces preservice and inservice teachers to the fundamental concepts of computer science, including web design, coding, ethics, computational thinking, course resources, etc.


Edc 310 The Teaching Of Reading And Writing In The Primary Grades: Introductory Week, Ting Yuan Apr 2021

Edc 310 The Teaching Of Reading And Writing In The Primary Grades: Introductory Week, Ting Yuan

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This OER features the introductory week of EDC 310 in which teacher candidates will learn to use methods of cultural anthropology to learn to be an observant classroom teacher and ethnographer, collect weekly data through weekly classroom fieldwork featuring their child partners, as well as enact culturally-responsive literacy teaching lessons for their child partners on a weekly basis.


Eece 702 Social Foundations Of Early Childhood Education, Andrew Aprile Aug 2020

Eece 702 Social Foundations Of Early Childhood Education, Andrew Aprile

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This course is an introduction to the social, historical, and philosophical foundations of early childhood education in the United States. Through critical analysis of required reading, class discussion, and writing, we will explore how the dynamics of schooling relate to larger social, cultural, economic, political and historical forces. Using a sociocultural lens, this course will investigate the ways that social class, race, gender, family, community, language, ability, ethnicity, immigration, and sexuality intersect and impact schools, student outcomes, and policies surrounding early childhood and childhood education. This course places emphasis on the separate and combined effects of race and class within …