Adapted Physical Education
Provides knowledge and skills for assessing, interpreting, programming and instructing children and adults with disabilities/special needs in a wide range of physical education programs.
Math for Teachers II
A continuation of EDF 241. Includes an introduction to probability and statistics, geometry, and problem solving. Offered every spring.
Kinesiology/Health Promotion
An introductory study of the historical, philosophical, and scientific foundations of kinesiology; aspects of physical education, exercise science, health promotion, and sport will be covered.
Health and Physical Ed Methods
Health and Physical Education Methods is designed for those studying to become an Elementary or P-12 Health/Physical Education teacher. Emphasis will be placed on teaching methods and strategies, designing learning experiences and tasks, presenting instruction, developing and maintaining a learning environment, and using assessment in the health and physical education classroom.
Science Methods
This course is an introduction to the study of art and to art appreciation, with special emphasis on art activities appropriate to the developmental stages of children in elementary schools. Offered every fall.
Elective
Social Studies Methods
Presents the scope and sequence of the skills and concepts of the social studies program applicable to the elementary grades. The broad range of the social studies curriculum will be defined with emphasis on the need for student and teacher to relate to their world: past, present, and future. Offered every spring. (Prerequisite: admission to […]
Lanaguage Interventions/Strategies
This course focuses on caregiver and classroom-based strategies for promoting language and literacy development of children who are at risk for or have disabilities. In addition, the current approaches to assistive technology, augmentative communication and their application in the classroom will be discussed.
Math for Teachers I
Designed for early elementary and middle grade teacher education majors to provide a working knowledge of geometric and arithmetic sequences, operations with whole numbers, rational numbers, real numbers, the concept of equations, number theory, and problem solving. Offered every fall. (Prerequisite: 17 or above on the math sub-test of the ACT.)
Assessment in Special Education
This course includes technical prerequisites of understanding standardized assessment and the rationale for using curriculum-based measurement (CBM) within the broad context of special education programming. Students will develop competencies in utilizing norm-referenced, criterion-referenced, curriculum-based, and teacher-made assessment for instructional and placement decisions.