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Education - Urban Teaching Residency Master's (EDTF) 1 EDTF 505 Methods: 7-12 English A EDUCATION - URBAN This course is designed for preservice and working educators and is intended to weave theory into practice. In this data and standards TEACHING RESIDENCY driven climate, educators are often hit with buzzwords instead of solid theory and solid pedagogy. The framework for the course is to provide a MASTER'S (EDTF) foundation in theory and then explores how that theory works within and against existing practices in schools. We will be reflecting on practice These courses are only available to students in the Urban Teaching and designing and redesigning lessons and units based on theory and Residency program. best practices for adolescent literacy. This course is an overview of the theory and pedagogy needed for effective English language arts EDTF 503 Methods: Elementary A instruction. Prerequisite: Enrollment in Urban Teaching Residency This course is designed to enhance literacy and mathematics instruction Program. that engages all students as readers, thinkers and sense makers. In Taught by: n/a this course, we will explore the interrelationship of language, literacy, Course usually offered in fall term numeracy, and culture, and will co-construct a knowledge base for Also Offered As: EDTC 505 understanding how children learn. We will also develop and practice new Activity: Lecture routines for teaching literacy and mathematics that build on students 1.0 Course Unit interests, curiosities, and informal knowledge. Throughout the course, EDTF 506 Methods: 7-12 General Science/Biology A you will be encouraged to critically reflect on continually develop your The purpose of this class is to introduce secondary science teachers teaching practice. Course readings, discussions, and assignments to pedagogy, content and methodologies supported by a three-pillar will offer opportunities to think in both theoretical terms and practical foundation: teaching diverse learners (cultural responsiveness), terms about your teaching. Prerequisite: Enrollment in Urban Teaching curriculum development (Understanding by Design) and demonstration Residency Program. of knowledge and skill acquisition (high leverage practices and Course usually offered in fall term competencies). Prerequisite: Enrollment in Urban Teaching Residency Also Offered As: EDTC 503 Program. Activity: Lecture Course usually offered in fall term 1.0 Course Unit Also Offered As: EDTC 506 EDTF 504 Methods: Middle Years A Activity: Lecture This course focuses on you as both a learner and a teacher of 1.0 Course Unit mathematics and science. Its development is premised on the notion EDTF 508 Methods: 7-12 World Languages A that in order for you to foster understanding and engagement for all your The objectives of this course are for teachers to be able to: Align the students, you have to develop and draw on different kinds of knowledge, four domains of professional practice with world languages pedagogy, skills, and dispositions. As a result, the course is designed to help you recognize and demonstrate how pedagogical theories inform effective hone your practice as a teacher of mathematics and science and involves methodologies, incorporate a variety of standards-driven instructional you learning about learners (yourself included), the understandings and practices using communicative techniques that engage students, conceptions they hold, and the developmental processes through which research, identify and use resources that encourage student-centered they learn. It also involves developing skills in teaching practices that learning practices, investigate and utilize a variety of assessments that engage students in mathematical and scientific exploration, creating effectively measure student performance and enhance proficiency, an environment that facilitates reasoning and promotes inquiry, and participate in local, state and national professional World Languages finding ways to analyze and learn from your own teaching. Good teaching organizational activities including workshops and/or conferences. is essentially a decision laden process, and the decisions you make Prerequisite: Enrollment in Urban Teaching Residency Program. are contextually based. Consequently, the aim of the course is not to Course usually offered in fall term provide you with a bag of tricks that are applicable or generalizable to Also Offered As: EDTC 508 all situations, but rather to help you develop necessary tools for thinking Activity: Lecture and working as a teacher. These tools include ways to explore scientific 1.0 Course Unit and mathematical content, assess your students understanding on an ongoing basis, and help all your students develop as learners of EDTF 512 Methods: 7-12 Science (Chemistry) mathematics and science. Prerequisite: Enrollment in Urban Teaching The purpose of this class is to introduce secondary science teachers Residency Program. to pedagogy, content and methodologies supported by a three-pillar Course usually offered in fall term foundation: teaching diverse learners (cultural responsiveness), Also Offered As: EDTC 504 curriculum development (Understanding by Design) and demonstration Activity: Lecture of knowledge and skill acquisition (high leverage practices and 1.0 Course Unit competencies). Prerequisite: Enrollment in Urban Teaching Residency Program. One-term course offered either term Also Offered As: EDTC 512 Activity: Lecture 1.0 Course Unit 2021-22 Catalog | Generated 08/18/21 2 Education - Urban Teaching Residency Master's (EDTF) EDTF 513 Methods: 7-12 Science (Physics) EDTF 521 Foundations of Special Education The purpose of this class is to introduce secondary science teachers This course strives to teach students who are working towards to pedagogy, content and methodologies supported by a three-pillar certification in general education problem solving strategies, teaching foundation: teaching diverse learners (cultural responsiveness), techniques, itinerant services, team and community building, and types of curriculum development (Understanding by Design) and demonstration disabilities found in students who are eligible for Individualized Education of knowledge and skill acquisition (high leverage practices and Programming (IEPs) under the Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA). competencies). Prerequisite: Enrollment in Urban Teaching Residency We will learn what constitutes disabilities in this population and issues Program. surrounding providing this populations with an effective education. One-term course offered either term Students will explore the ramifications, jargon, specific goals and Also Offered As: EDTC 513 objectives included with implementing and IEP in the general education, Activity: Lecture or inclusive, environment. Students will discuss the appropriateness of 1.0 Course Unit various academic environments as children with disabilities progress EDTF 515 Child Development from elementary to secondary education, and transition into adulthood. This course explores the origins and context of urban education in the General issues surrounding the topic of inclusion and the least restrictive United States by critically examining how schools reproduce and sustain environment will be addressed. In addition, time will be spent in this systemic inequality. We will examine historical, political, economic, and course discussing the education of students who are English Language socio-cultural frameworks for understanding urban schools, students and Learners from the standpoint of sheltered instruction and the use of teachers. Through course readings, field visits and class discussions, we WIDA lesson planning. A holistic approach to educating all students, with explore the following: (1) student, teacher and researcher perspectives an emphasis on academic, social, emotional, behavioral, and transition on urban education, (2) the broader sociopolitical urban context of K-12 skills area focus. Content will be presented through online lecture, hands schooling in cities, (3) teaching and learning in urban settings and (4) on projects, and reading. It is expected that students will work within their ideas about re-imagining urban education. Prerequisite: Enrollment in current teaching placement and with actual students to complete some, Urban Teaching Residency Program. if not all, of the 7 projects. Prerequisite: Enrollment in Urban Teaching Course usually offered in fall term Residency Program. Also Offered As: EDTC 515 Course usually offered in spring term Activity: Lecture Also Offered As: EDTC 521 1.0 Course Unit Activity: Online Course 0.0 Course Units EDTF 520 Methods: 7-12 Mathematics A The goal of this course is to enhance the teaching and learning of EDTF 524 School & Society Seminar mathematics through a focus on the practical application of pedagogical This course is designed to provide students with an opportunity to theory. Each week we will engage in discussions and activities centered investigate the philosophical underpinnings, social context, and current on different pedagogical approaches, using lessons covering specific discourse of education and schooling in the United States. By historically mathematical concepts as demonstration tools. We will also use class linking the development of educational initiatives to notions of power, time to reflect on experiences from our current teaching positions, and nation building, and citizenship, this class furthers an understanding of we will work together to develop solutions to problems that arise