Secondary Education Course Listing

SED 224 – Adolescent Learning and Development

1 Unit
Typically taken in the Sophomore Year

This course is oriented toward students in the secondary education track and introduces students to adolescent learning within the framework of normative development, context, and culture/ethnicity. Students will become familiar with traditional and emerging developmental theories and their application in multiple learning contexts including schools and cultures. Students will be able to create a context for adolescent learning with applicability for school learning and fieldwork in an educational setting.

EFN 299- Schools and Communities

1 Unit
Typically taken in the Sophomore Year

This course explores the nature and complex interrelationship between school and society in a rapidly changing diverse culture in the United States. Students will be expected to become familiar with different mores, values, belief systems, and attitudes held by various groups. Through reflection and ethnographic study, students will begin to develop an understanding of their own socialization and question how this may have impacted their own educational experience and those of others.

SED 399 – Pedagogy in Schools

1 Unit
Typically taken in the Sophomore Year

The purpose of this course is to prepare students for classroom teaching. Students develop the pedagogic knowledge, skills, and strategies to become effective and reflective practitioners, utilizing best practices in culturally responsive on-site experiences. This course integrates campus seminars and on-site teaching.

---390- Content Specific Methods (English, History, Science, Modern Language)

1 Unit
Typically taken in the Junior Year with SPE 323 and SED 399 as a block of courses

These courses are taken in content departments in the schools of Culture and Society or Science. Course descriptions can be found in the College Catalogue.

SPE 323 – Literacy in Inclusive Classrooms

1 Unit
Typically taken with SED 399 and ---390 as a block of courses in one of the Junior Year semesters

This course is offered by the SEL Department. Course description can be found in the college catalogue.

EFN 398 – Historical and Political Context of Schools

1 Unit
Typically taken in the Junior or Senior Year

This course is appropriate as a liberal learning experience. It is required for all secondary education track students. Students explore the school as a political, economic, and cultural institution. It examines the contexts in which the school exits. Students will study the tensions and power relationships concerning the school within the context of local, state, and federal mandates.

---490 – Student Teaching

2 Units
Typically taken in the Senior Year

The on-site student full semester teaching practicum experience prepares students for secondary education classroom teaching. Students will assume full teaching and pedagogic responsibilities in a content specific classroom during this full semester experience. Interns will plan, organize, and implement lessons in an elementary or secondary school setting. The emphasis throughout the experience is upon the selective and effective use of teaching strategies and techniques gleaned during the secondary pedagogy course and content methods. Students will provide instructional leadership correlating to core and cross content curriculum standards. They will participate in all required competencies stated in INTASC Standards.

SED 489- Collaborative Capstone for Professional Inquiry

1 Unit
Typically taken in the Senior Year concurrently with ---490

This course is the culminating or capstone seminar designed to be taken concurrently with undergraduate student teaching. The purpose of the seminar is to examine and analyze pedagogic practice and learning behaviors that are observed and occur during the student teaching experience and to reflect on the overall dimensions of the classroom, on-site teaching environment, teaching and learning, and the community in which the school resides. Students will be encouraged to pursue action research, service learning and professional partnerships, and completion of an electronic portfolio. The course is organized around Distance Learning activities and seminars taught by a team of professors from content departments and the Department of Educational Administration and Secondary Education.