CTED 521 Assessing Student Learning Skills
- 2 semester credits
This course gives an understanding of learning breakdowns that occur and gives direction into looking beyond the outward signs. The importance of improving observational skills provides unique insight into student learning skills and learning differences. Participants will be introduced to a series of tests that assess student learning skills. Using interviewing techniques, student response booklets, and observations by teachers and parents, a profile of learning difficulties and attributes will be revealed. A compilation of classroom observations and test results will help to provide an assessment of the child's status.
Text: The Myth of Laziness by Mel Levine, M.D.
CTED 589 The Unschooled Mind
- 2 semester credits
The purpose of this course is to provide fresh views on getting back to education's basics and the building blocks that are increasingly important yet easily ignored. An overall reviewing of the growth and development of children, values, misconceptions, the world of symbols, learning and the mind will be covered.
Text: The Flickering Mind By Todd Oppenheimer
CTED 609 The Effective Teacher
- 2 Semester Credits
Assists teachers evaluate and develop a personal positive viewpoint toward teaching amd students. Analysis of personality and teaching styles. Discusses improving methods of lecturing, classroom discipline and the positive effect of teachers on students.
Text:
CTED 635 Student Behavior: Emotional-Attention-Active
-2 semester credits
The occurrence of learning problems in children seems to be on the rise in recent years. Problems that disrupt the educational process more than most are those that affect the emotional stability, attention span and the activity level of the child. The magnitude of the problem is significant, with many engaged in research to find out what has contributed to the increase in childhood behavior and learning disorders. This course will study traits of children with behavior and attention problems. The more we understand, the deeper our repertoire of strategies and techniques.
Text:
CTED 636 Teaching Critical Thinking Skills
- 2 semester credits
Many students are not knowledgeable regarding the necessary thinking skills that will help them prevail in today’s competitive world. They lack skills in gathering relevant information, analyzing and evaluating, and finally in decision-making. Our society is highly technical in nature with its fast computers and instant availability of information and communication. It seems we can find information quickly but can we deal with it? Can we interpret, analyze, think it through critically and then use that information for problem solving and decision-making? Though experience teaches us the “hard way”, what could we have been done to make the lessons learned less costly? A knowledge base and guidance proffers to the child principles in the ability to think critically.
Text:
CTED 637 Storytelling: Pathway to Reading
- 2 Semester Credits
Provides skills of storytelling that will enhance oral, visual and written communication. focuses on story-mapping, vocabulary development, visual aids and oral presentations.
Text:
CTED 638 Understanding the Child, 6 - 18
-2 semester credits
This course offers an overall review of the growth and development of children within the context of physical, social and academic structure. Insights into the differences within the context of new ideas in the field of child development.
Text:
CTED 664 Using Technology in the Classroom
-2 semester credits
This course will provide background information on using various forms of technology in the classroom. The use of the interactive white board, Internet, project-base learning, digital camera and video recorder, PowerPoint presentations, Internet interaction, LCD projector and other equipment. Integrating curriculum materials and preparing a lesson plan will round out the course. Text: The Digital Classroom, D. Gordon
CTED 679 Trends and Issues in Education.
- 2 semester credits
This course will focus on trends and issues that teachers and the educational system experience. A review of education from the beginning of compulsory education to the present will be covered. Influences on education from business, industry, government and society have directed learning in many ways affecting its changes, influences and challenges. Today the emphasis is phonics, technology, and standardized testing. Lectures and discussion concerning social skills, cultural diversity, social programs, teacher preparation, professional development and educational programs will be covered. The use or readings, Internet searches, lectures and discussion will be emphasized.
Text: The Underground History of Education By John Taylor Gatto
CTED 690 Academics: Hands on with Nature.
- 2 Semester Credits
Emphasis on nature around us and its importance to learning through hands-on teaching methods. Projects from the outdoors adapting to instruction in math, social studies, art, English and other academic areas.
Text: Manual provided
CTED 740 Cooperative Learning: Revisited
- 2 semester credits
This course will provide information and practice on the basic skills and fundamental knowledge for lesson planning and implementing the three frameworks of cooperative learning. Development of social skills, working together with different levels of ability and enriching communication skills will be emphasized.
Text:
CTED 743 The Quality Classroom: Inclusion, Gifted, Diversity
- 2 semester credits
An understanding and incorporating of the inclusion factor in the classroom. Multicultural diversity in educational settings, giftedness, the misconceptions and difficulties of a quality classroom are included in the discussion of the shifting paradigm in education.
Text:
CTED 789 Learning and Teaching: Creativity and Imagination
- 2 semester credits
Learning and Teaching: Creativity and Imagination CTED 789 This course examines the concept of creativity and imagination...the role it plays in learning and teaching. Using creativity and imagination to create new methods, ideas, strategies, and techniques to stimulate learning is an important tool for teachers. An understanding of the traits, characteristics, components and steps toward fostering a creative classroom will be studied. Learning the concept of flow as outlined in the works of Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi is included as a concept in learning. Using creativity and imagination to create new methods, ideas, strategies, and techniques to stimulate students learning is an important tool for teachers. An understanding of the traits, characteristics, components and steps toward fostering a creative classroom will be studied. Learning the concept of flow as outlined in the works of Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi is included as a concept in learning.
Text:
CTED 803 Developing Student Leadership Skills
- 2 semester credits
This course focuses on developing classroom work activities that will stimulate the development of good positive leadership skills. Emphasis will be on several areas of importance: the components of leadership, the importance of interpersonal listening skills and building narratives on how to get your message across to others. An additional set of competencies is required that are more like qualities than intellectual traits. They include character, leadership development, passion and influencing skills.
Text: Manual provided
CTED 831 Insights into Learning: A New Look at Learning
- 2 Semester Credits
Discusses specific neurodevelopmental differences that lead to difficulties in learning. Focuses on strategies for helping students overcome and compensate for their differences. Topics include demystifying learning difficulties and understanding the child's strengths.
Test: A Mind at a time by Mel Levine M.D
CTED 845 Educating Our Future
- 2 semester credits
This course will use a lecture and discussion format covering educational directions, problems, reforms and current trends. Coverage and discussion of the No Child Left Behind legislation along with past, current and future classroom curriculum will be assessed. Education outlook and ideas will provide a broad perspective of the future of education.
Text: What Does It Mean to be Well Educated By Alfie Kohn
CTED 848 Learning Elements: Understanding and Adapting for Learning Differences
- 2 semester credits
This course studies the differences that each child brings with him into classroom. This course will cover problems with speaking, writing, organizing, verbal and nonverbal skills. Other learning difficulties involving physical differences and behavior, organizational and time management skills, work habits, delayed skill acquisition and poorly regulated attention will be discussed. This course provides techniques and strategies to compensate or adapt so the child will have a more successful learning environment.
Text: Educational Care, by Mel Levine, M.D.
CTED 894 Art in the Classroom.
- 2 Semester Credits
Hands-on art. Provides strategies that stimulate creativity, enhance visual/spatial perception, refine motor skills and help hand-eye coordination. Covered are basic techniques of cardboard construction, origami, sketching, paper engineering, sculpturing and stamp-making. Participants will learn to use art as a means to help stimulate and motivate student learning.
Text:
CTED 916 Differentiated Instruction
- 2 Semester Credits
This course will direct students through the process of understanding differentiated instruction, assessing students’ learning skills, analyzing them and effectively using their results. Students will be guided in incorporating and implementing instructional framework as well as preparing lesson plans and successful management of the classroom. The goal will be to understand the assessments and develop strategies.
Text: Differentiated Instruction, by Patti Drapeau
CTED 944 Students at Risk
- 2 semester credits
Social changes in the family structure, stress, and health related problems contribute, in part, to the behavior and safety of the at-risk student. The impact of technological advances, TV computers, games, etc., the increase of drug use and social divergences give insight to understanding the at-risk student.
Text: Manual provided
INDEPENDENT STUDY
Each course is 2 semester credits
[Course work includes: reading text, looking up some websites,
find, review and critique journal articles, do a student observation.
Send back a reflection on each of the five assignment packets and a
written narrative of your student observation.]
CTED 529 The Misunderstood Child
An overview of learning differences and disabilities that provides a study of the assessment, evaluation and diagnosis of the child with sensory integration, autism, dyslexia, Asperger's Syndrome, ADD, ADHD, LD and giftedness. Course provides guidance in implementing plans for maximizing the child's strengths in learning and adapting when challenged by weaknesses
CTED 695 Understanding Autism
The course provides an opportunity in understanding Autism Spectrum disorders. Participants will learn about the basic background of ASD, including different strategies, techniques and reading about unique one of a kind ways in helping students with learning.
CTED 775 The Out-of-Sync Child: Sensory Integration
Sensory Integration is the overlooked problem for students with learning problems. Have a child in class whose out-of-control, acts differently than others, disrupts class, makes your day stressful? Research indicates that 70% of children with learning disabilities have some sensory integration processing problems. This course will help you as a teacher to understand the out-of-bound child in a new light. The information obtained from this course will help make your classroom more conducive to learning for the difficult, disruptive and sensitive child.
CTED 895 Internet Content for the Classroom:
A course that provides K-12 websites for teachers with a step-by-step path to navigate the world of information on the Internet to help you move swiftly and efficiently through a portfolio of high quality secure Web Sites. The course will provide new opportunities to enhance classroom lessons by weaving Internet information and activities with lesson plans correlated with standards. All disciplines will be covered K-12.
CTED 973 Learning Differences in Boys and Girls
This course will show the learning differences between boys and girls that help in understanding how they learn. The course will address a number of areas in which boys and girls differ in learning behavior, brain function and language development. Balancing the inequities between boys and girls
will also be covered.
