Focuses on teaching how to better manage personal finances. Requires students to develop lesson plans on personal financial planning, including goal setting, time value of money, personal financial statements, cash management, credit cards, credit, loans, buying skills, insurance, taxes, housing, investment alternatives, estate and retirement plans.
Introduces the teaching and learning cycle: planning, instruction, and assessment. Assists students in completing an authentic assessment tool that shows how they develop and evaluate student learning. Documents authentic practices from the student's teaching experience that address planning, instruction, assessment, analyzing teaching, and academic language to reveal the impact of a candidate's teaching performance on student learning.
Provides first-hand, supervised, clinical experience in observing and implementing effective class management practices.
Provides professional educators, administrators, policy makers, and interested members of the public with increased understanding of the latest research affecting K-12 education. Focuses on helping participants keep abreast of effective teaching strategies and curriculum design, alternative learning structures, innovative teaching technologies, educational policies and legislation, etc. May be repeated as many times as desired.
Provides a foundation in curriculum theory and practice. Introduces instructional design theories, principles and models. Outlines the historical development, current processes and practices of curriculum development, instructional design, implementation, and assessment. Examines applications and processes of curriculum decision making and the impact of national standards on curriculum design and development at the classroom, district, state, and national levels. Requires 15 field experience/practicum hours in addition to class time.
Provides a comprehensive introduction of characteristics of children and youth with disabilities and topics related to models of service delivery, documentation procedures, and legal/ethical issues. Includes historical factors, legislation, etiology, characteristics, needs, educational strategies, including existing and emerging technologies, assessment, and support services for individuals with disabilities ranging from mild, moderate to severe levels of varying disabilities. Studies the impact of disabilities on academic and social/emotional performances.
Provides an in-depth understanding of differentiated instructional design and delivery. Focuses on planning and implementing instruction for a diverse classroom community.
Prepares teachers to teach content in students' second language in U.S. public schools. Includes applied aspects of second language learning and teaching. Provides general and special educators, and dual language or second language specialists the techniques, activities, strategies, and resources needed to plan instruction for second language learners. Emphasizes the development of teaching skills in language development, literacy, and content-area instruction for K-12 students. Requires 15 hours of field experience/practicum hours as part of course assignments.
Examines the intricate web of variables that interact in the second language learning process, including linguistic, cognitive, social, cultural, and political factors. Examines each of these factors in turn and develops understanding of how they work together to foster or inhibit successful second language learning and acquisition. Requires 15 hours of field experience/practicum hours as part of course assignments. Course fee of $15 applies.
Identifies the connections between language, culture, and identity. Examines multicultural education in the classroom through a focus on the historical, sociological, and philosophical foundations of education in the development of the United States and its education system. Outlines methods to create multicultural /multilingual curricula with a special focus on culturally/ linguistically-responsive instruction and assessment techniques.
Examines methods and practice for the testing of bilingual students at the classroom level. Focuses on assessment of language proficiency in English language learners (ELL) and the assessment of academic achievement of bilingual students in specific content areas. Develops and reviews tasks (test items), response formats, scoring systems, and test administration procedures as critical to attaining validity and fairness. Examines major current testing policies for linguistic minority students. Practicum required. Course fee of $15 applies.
Provides teachers with a theoretical framework for understanding literacy and linguistic development of students learning in a second language. Provides an understanding of the literacy instructional needs of these students. Increases knowledge and skill in instructional practices that support second language literacy learning.
Provides strategies classroom teachers may use for facilitating community participation in the education of minorities. Examines how the teacher's role impacts the adjustment of students to the classroom environment. Studies the techniques of family-school collaboration as well as constructive methods of evaluation. Practicum required. Course fee of $15 applies.
Teaches the Utah State Board of Education (USBE) Instructional Coaching Framework. Ensures a level of consistency statewide among all institutions providing courses for the Instructional Coaching Endorsement.
Designed for K-6 teachers. Covers the content of Number and Operations to develop a comprehensive understanding of our number system and relate its structure to computation, arithmetic, algebra, and problem solving. Includes number, number sense, computation, and estimation through a coordinated program of activities that develop number concepts and skills. Special attention in this course will be given to planning lessons in the mathematical content of number and operations and problem solving strategies. Emphasizes interpreting and assessing students' work and learning, and the integration of the NCTM process standards and the Utah Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs). Course fee of $15 applies.
Provides practicing teachers a deeper understanding of rational numbers, operations with rational numbers, proportionality, and instructional strategies to facilitate the instruction of this content for elementary students. Course fee of $15 applies.
Provides practicing teachers a deeper understanding of algebraic expressions, equations, functions, real numbers, and instructional strategies to facilitate the instruction of this content for elementary students. Course fee of $15 applies.
Provides practicing teachers a deeper understanding of the geometry and measurement content that exists in the state core and instructional strategies to facilitate the instruction of this content. Special attention in this course will be given to applying content understanding in geometry and measurement to classroom practice, interpreting and assessing students' work and learning, and to integrating NCTM process standards and the Utah Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) into instruction. Course fee of $15 applies.
Develops a firm problem-solving foundation. Using skills and strategies applied in mathematical contexts practicing teachers will learn to think, work with others, present solutions orally to the whole class, and write up detailed solutions. Provides practicing teachers a deeper understanding of probability and data representation and analysis. Special attention in this course will be given to applying content understandings to classroom practice, to interpreting and assessing students' work and learning, and to integrating NCTM process standards and the Utah Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) into instruction.
Provides practicing teachers a deeper understanding of the various types of assessment and their appropriate use for guiding instruction, intervention, and evaluation of student learning of mathematics content. Special attention will be given to the application of mathematical content understandings to planning for classroom instruction and assessment of student learning that is consistent with NCTM process standards and Utah instructional learning outcomes.
Develops a broader perspective of curriculum, instruction, and assessment in elementary mathematics education. Emphasizes methods that support teachers and systems.
Develops education leadership knowledge and skills. Analyzes policy and curriculum issues. Analyzes research informing instructional practice. Examines the implementation and evaluation of professional development. Evaluates educational structures that affect equity including use of materials. Examines responsibilities of math coaches and mentors.
Introduces the characteristics and needs of gifted children and youth. Includes types of programs available to gifted children and youth, the historical and philosophical foundations required of professionals in the field, the history of the gifted child movement, and advocacy for gifted children and youth.
Provides an introduction to creating safe learning environments that foster emotional well-being, positive social interaction, leadership, and cultural understanding for success in a diverse society. Develops knowledge of the impact of giftedness and diversity on social-emotional development. Provides support on how to design environments, within a continuum of services, that encourage independence, motivation, and self-efficacy of individuals from all backgrounds.
Examines how to collect multiple types of assessment information so that all students are able to demonstrate gifts and talents. Develops competence in differentiating curriculum and instruction by using pre- and post-, performance-based, product-based, and out-of-level assessments. Promotes the importance of using non-biased, technically adequate, and equitable approaches in order to identify students from diverse backgrounds for gifted programs.
Prepares teachers to understand societal influences on the development of curricula. Helps teachers to develop long- and short-range units of instruction anchored in both general and special curricula for gifted and talented students, taking into consideration each individual's abilities and needs, the learning environment, and cultural and linguistic factors.
Requires teacher-participants to locate, create, and or adapt curricular materials needed to implement differentiated instruction for gifted and talented learners. Helps teachers develop materials and methods of instruction that will encourage creative problem-solving and should be adaptable for a variety of student abilities and needs, the learning environment, and cultural and linguistic factors that may influence instruction.
Provides research-based models of curriculum and instruction related to students with gifts and talents. Includes responding to student needs by planning, selecting, adapting, and creating culturally relevant curriculum and by using a repertoire of evidence-based instructional strategies to ensure specific student outcomes. Explains the purpose of using a comprehensive and sequenced core curriculum that is aligned with local, state, and national standards, and how to differentiate and expand it in order to meet the unique needs of students with gifts and talents. Develops competence in selecting, adapting, and planning for the use of a variety of evidence-based instructional strategies to advance learning of gifted and talented individuals.
Prepares teachers to effectively use leadership principles to collaborate with students and their families, other educators, and related service providers to advocate for individuals with gifts and talents as they promote the learning and well-being of individuals with gifts and talents across settings and diverse learning experiences.
Helps practicing teachers become proficient in developing and using a variety of formal and informal assessments and instructional procedures to increase or accelerate students' reading achievement as appropriate. Prepares teachers to screen for reading problems, diagnose reading strengths and needs, and monitor progress to ensure students achieve optimal growth in reading within the context of a Multi-Tiered System of Supports. Develops procedures for gathering, analyzing, and interpreting data to inform instruction, and presents an overview of methods for communicating findings to stakeholders.
Helps practicing teachers acquire foundational and declarative knowledge about literacy instruction, including historical perspectives on reading instruction, an introduction to theories and models of literacy acquisition, and discussions of research related to lifelong literacy and its instructional implications. Requires students to examine the history of the field of literacy, including the debates and various stances of reading researchers and the instructional directives developed as a result of the research.
Provides an overview of literary and informational texts for children and young adults, with emphasis on classic and recent publications, and their appropriate use in the classroom. Discusses important authors, historical context, and background, and considers current trends and classroom applications in literacy.
Helps practicing teachers develop an in-depth understanding of the research findings, issues, principles, and practices related to exemplary, research-based literacy instruction in the content areas.Prepares teachers to provide every student with meaningful and engaging opportunities to learn high-level skills through reading, writing, and speaking while working with graphics and texts, including images, video, and audio, in the K-12 curriculum. Teaches how to evaluate texts in various content areas or topics to identify the qualitative and quantitative features of a text and address reader and task considerations.
Focuses on emergent literacy development for students in grades K-12 and how that development is well-designed for appropriate literacy learning environments, experiences, and instructional interventions for emergent language learners. Covers the history, major perspectives, and theories about how students understand and develop literacy. Develops understandings of developmentally appropriate instruction, reading behaviors, and literacy development within the larger framework of the communicative arts, i.e., oracy, written expression, reading, spelling, handwriting, listening, the visual and performing arts, and the social community, i.e., family, socio-economic conditions, culture, ethnicity, language, etc.
Helps practicing teachers acquire knowledge and understanding of current theories and models that impact reading comprehension and apply that knowledge in instruction. Focuses on understanding reading comprehension, increasing the range, quality and complexity of reading materials used by students, and supporting student responses to text. Builds teachers' ability to help their students use texts efficiently and effectively to develop and express complex, critical thinking.
Examines theories, concepts, and methodologies that promote the development of strategic writers. Prepares teachers to provide research-based methods for teaching K-12 students to develop a range of writing skills and applications including how to compose opinion/argumentation, informational/expository, and narrative writing. Facilitates teachers' ability to assess K-12 student writing.
Encourages the development of a personal identity as an artist and teacher of the arts. Applies the philosophy of aesthetics to the exploration of the nature of art and personal artistic preferences. Teaches educators to develop and assess the cognitive, physical, social, and emotional needs and abilities of individual learners and meet those needs through arts instruction and experiences.
Continues the development of a personal identity as an artist and teacher who uses the arts. Enables participants to construct and facilitate learning experiences in each art form based on National and State Core Art Standards. Teaches educators to develop and assess the cognitive, phycisal, social, and emotional needs and abilities of individual learners and meet those needs through arts instruction and experiences. Prepares participants to advocate for the arts by applying and descriting how arts education aligns with effective educational theories.
Guides the construction and facilitation of learning experiences in each art form based on National and State Core Art Standards. Facilitates learning experiences to develop and asses the cognitive, physical, social, and emotional needs and abilities of individual learners through the arts. Continues to develop participants as advocates for high quality arts education that aligns with effective educational theories. Encourages participants to apply the cultural and historical meaning of the arts to connect arts experiences with differing context and aspects of life. Introduces ways to construct, implement, and assess arts-integrated learning experiences.
Guides the development of arts exhibits, performances, informances, or explorations demonstrating student competency in the arts. Applies the philosophy of aesthetics to the exploration of the arts and personal preferences. Develops participants as advocates for high quality arts education that aligns with effective educational theories. Identifies and connects various programs and practices at district, region, state, and national levels to help participants promote and experience the arts, while meeting shared goals.
Examines the individual's personal identity as an artist, and as a teacher who uses the arts, to benefit themselves and others. Provides opportunities for participants to exhibit work and/or produce performances, informances, or explorations demonstrating student competency in the arts. Assists participants to advocate for the arts by applying and describing how arts educationaligns with effective educational theories. Evaluates participant ability to apply the cultural and historical meaning of the arts to connect arts experiences with differing contexts and aspects of life. Requires participants to construct, implement, and assess arts-integrated learning experiences.
Provides opportunity for participants to share a personal identity as an artist, and as a teacher who uses the arts, to benefit themselves and others. Assesses participant ability to exhibit work and/or produce performances, informances, or explorations demonstrating student competency in the arts. Requires participants to advocate for the arts by applying and describing how arts education aligns with effective educational theories. Analyses participant's ability to apply the cultural and historical meaning of the arts to connect arts experiences with differing contexts and aspects of life. Asks participants to construct, implement, and assess arts-integrated learning experiences. Evaluates participant's practice in identifying and connecting various programs and practices at district, region, state, and national levels to promote and experience the arts, while meeting shared goals.
Presents a historical overview and the theoretical and research foundations for dual language and immersion education. Emphasizes the practical application of theory and research in immersion programs.
Designed to acquaint secondary teachers seeking a K-12 Dual Language Immersion (DLI) endorsement with instructional strategies and classroom management for the elementary classroom. Focuses on helping students to understand the elementary curriculum and plan units of instruction, and to build a repertoire of teaching strategies, tasks, and resources for use in the elementary classroom. Requires 15 hours of field experience/practicum hours in a DLI classroom in addition to class time.
Focuses on STEM integration through the lens of science. Identifies and distinguishes STEM models as they examine, engage in, and implement three dimensions of science instruction, Disciplinary Core Ideas (DCIs), Science and Engineering Practices (SEPs), and Crosscutting concepts (CCCs), through the use of authentic phenomena. Teaches participants to apply pedagogical practices that help K-6 students develop the disciplinary literacy needed to authentically communicate in science and helps students develop the skills needed to integrate science with other disciplines. Instructs participants to model practices to build their capacity to create effective student-centered learning environments and instruction. Emphasizes authentic connections between science and technology, engineering design, and mathematics.
Focuses on STEM integration through the lens of engineering and technology. Teaches participants to identify and distinguish STEM models as they examine, engage in, and implement engineering design and the Science and Engineering Practices (SEPs) through the use of effective technological tools. Applies pedagogical practices that help K-6 students develop the disciplinary literacy needed to authentically communicate in engineering and helps students develop the skills needed to integrate the engineering design process with other disciplines. Models practices to build participant capacity to create effective student-centered learning environments and instruction. Emphasizes authentic connections with science and mathematics.
Provides teachers with a deep and useful understanding of energy and the nature of how students use concepts of energy to make sense of phenomena across life, earth, and physical science. Enhances teacher insights into: 1) how matter and energy interact, 2) the relationships of energy to forces and interactions within fields, and 3) pedagogical content knowledge around teaching and learning about energy. Also connects knowledge of energy concepts to practices in technology, engineering, and mathematics.
Provides teachers with a deep and useful understanding of force and the nature of how students use concepts of force to make sense of phenomena across life, earth, and physical science. Enhances teacher insights into: 1) how force, matter and energy interact, 2) the relationship of force to energy and interactions within fields, and 3) pedagogical content knowledge around teaching and learning about force. Also connects knowledge of concepts of force to practices in technology, engineering and mathematics.
Provides teachers with a deep and useful understanding of matter and the nature of how students use concepts of matter to make sense of phenomena across life, earth, and physical science. This understanding enhances teacher insights into: 1) how matter and energy interact, 2) the relationships of matter to forces and interactions within fields, and 3) pedagogical content knowledge around teaching and learning about matter. Also connects knowledge of concepts of matter to practices in technology, engineering and mathematics.
Explores the nature of science using science and engineering principles, practices, and processes. Explores applications to Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics using learner-based pedagogy. Develops teaching practices to assist participants in educating K-6 students in selected Earth and Life Science Standards.
Examines systems at various scales from the universe to the molecular level. Idenfitifies systems as a crucial component to all science investigation and understanding. Teaches system components including matter, forces, and energy that cause phenomena to occur.Requires participants to develop and use models to represent systems and their interacitons. Assists participants in analyzing student work to assess conceptual understanding and scienfitic literacy. Considers ways to promote effective and equitable science instruction both in personal practice and in the science education community.
Develops a conceptual understanding of energy and matter flows into, out of, and within systems through reading, discussion, and use of models. Analyzes examples of student models and critiques multiple assessments to prepare participants to enact phenomena-based, three-dimensional science instruction that supports the development of students’ conceptual understanding and scientific literacy related to energy and matter. Considers ways to promote effective and equitable science instruction both in personal practice and in the science education community.
Engages participants in experiences that support learning with and about scientific literacy. Deepens content knowledge, includes authentic science sensemaking, integrates science conceptual ideas with classroom practice and engages in explicit and reflective discourse about science learning and science instruction.
Develops a conceptual understanding that natural systems are usually stable until changes occur from either natural or human caused (anthropogenic) events over time and/or scale. Demonstrates that stability and change are interconnected and one cannot be explained without the other. Teaches participants to construct explanations of how changes occur as natural systems interact. Teaches students to present arguments supported by evidence that change in systems occurs in differing temporal scales, spatial scales, and scales of magnitude.
Provides a capstone to the Elementary Science Endorsement. Requires participans to demonstrate and put into practice all that they have learned through the ESE experience. Evaluates participants' ability to use the crosscutting concepts and disciplinary core ideas to support sensemaking, create and implement practices in their own classrooms to engage all students in authentic science learning. Requires participants to show evidence of collaboration with other educators to develop and analyze learning opportunities for students, and promote effective and equitable science instruction both in personal practice and in the science education community.
Engages participants in developing meaningful understandings of problem-based approaches to teaching, learning, and the integration of STEM practices across the curriculum using appropriate technology. Requires the development and creation of problem-based, hands-on experiences.
Examines the increasingly pervasive role of electronic media in educating and socializing young students, especially as it affects the K-12 classroom. Explores the range of content available to these students, their families, and their classrooms and reviews research on the role of media in shaping individual identity and affecting school performance; analyzes public policies that affect teachers and students.
Examines issues surrounding the use of technology in curricular and instructional design, especially in designing coursework for an online learning environment. Requires students to incorporate appropriate digital media formats to create an online learning environment. Addresses issues of school leadership, as participants may become mentors in the area of educational technology.
Helps students produce educational media materials for their particular classroom. Requires students to collaborate with others to design, produce, test, and revise a unique project tailored for their instructional practice. Requires students to use a variety of digital tools to conceptualize, design, fashion, and evaluate media projects.
Focuses on using instructional design and Web page design principles for specific classroom populations. Examines the best instructional use of online options, including flipped and hybrid course design, and gaming. Requires completion of an instructional design plan for an instructional unit of the participants' choice for a learner group of their choice.
Focuses on universal design for learning (UDL) that differentiates curricula and learning environments for a wide range of student abilities and disabilities. Requires students to learn to apply the UDL approach in designing differentiated learning experiences for their classrooms using educational technology.
Teaches students to design and create media for content-specific units of instruction. Requires students to use technology specific to a given discipline, and to incorporate instructional design and digital media to create an online unit of study.
Provides students with a strong foundation in the basic concepts and principles of ABA, including the history and philosophical assumptions of behavior analysis and autism spectrum disorder. Graduate fee of $515 applies.
Defines ethical responsibilities required in the field of applied behavior analysis. Introduces policy and practice related to informed consent, protection of confidentiality, selection of least intrusive and least restrictive behavior change procedures within the context of case methodology. Emphasizes legal issues and ethical decision making processes. Covers professional, disciplinary, and ethical standards for Board Certified Behavior Analyst certification in depth. Course fee of $515 applies.
Explains various behavioral assessments and intervention strategies. Focuses on single subject designs and procedures for measuring behavior, displaying data, and interpreting results. Examines ways to evaluate and analyze behavior change. Course fee of $515 applies.
Introduces developmentally relevant counseling treatment or intervention plans. Includes development of measurable outcomes for clients. Teaches evidence-based counseling strategies and techniques for prevention and intervention. Provides strategies to promote client understanding of and access to a variety of community-based resources. Emphasizes suicide prevention models and strategies. Explores crisis intervention, trauma-informed, and community-based strategies, such as Psychological First Aid.
Introduces theories of career development and career decision-making models relating to educational and career development program planning, organization, implementation, administration, and evaluation. Covers the history of work and career in the U.S. in addition to contemporary influences and multicultural considerations.
Prepares future school counselors to help all students succeed in post-secondary training and future careers. Emphasizes current labor market demands and resources that can provide early and ongoing exposure to information necessary for students to make informed decisions regarding post-secondary education and improve their career literacy.
Introduces methods for collection and interpretation of various types of data. Focuses on the importance of making data-driven decisions for behavior change procedures based on functional relationships. Course fee of $515 applies.
Focuses on using methods and tools for selecting and defining target behaviors and for behavior measurement. Provides experience in methods to develop new behavior using imitation, modeling, shaping, and chaining and methods to decrease behaviors using extinction, differential reinforcement and antecedent interventions. Reviews and extends the study of functional behavior assessment, verbal behavior, generalization and maintenance of behavior change. Course fee of $515 applies.
Focuses on advanced topics in behavior analysis, including current research, changes in relevant legislation, emerging areas of behavior analysis, measurement technology, school applications, teaching methodology, innovative interventions, and ethics. Course fee of $515 applies.
Examines the training, supervision, and performance monitoring from an applied Behavior Analytic perspective. Provides students with a strong foundation in effective training as it applies to parents, staff, and supervisees. Develops competency in supervision of ABA interns. Provides an overview of systems-level analysis, including organizational assessment, quality assurance, performance, and outcome monitoring. Course fee of $515 applies.
Examines the increasingly pervasive role of electronic media in educating and socializing young students. Explores the range of content available to these students and their families; documents the developing child's patterns of use and understanding of media; examines theories and methods for assessing media effects; reviews research on the role of media in shaping individual identity and responses to social issues; and analyzes public policies that affect teachers and students.
Examines issues surrounding teachers and the use of technology in curricular and instructional design. Emphasizes designing coursework for an online learning environment. Explores the history and models of instructional design and teaches incorporation of appropriate digital media formats to create an online learning environment. Introduces the integrated nature of Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) and the National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) as frameworks for identifying and applying the knowledge needed to teach and assess student learning with technology. Addresses issues of leadership, as students may become mentors in the area of educational technology.
Integrates information and communication technologies into instruction and prepares teachers to use technologies to differentiate their instruction to meet the needs of all students. Uses technology to revitalize pedagogy and provides teachers with the skills to develop lesson activities that empower students to make meaningful connections and develop 21st Century skills.
Focuses on using instructional design and Web page design principles. Examines the best instructional use of online options, including flipped and hybrid course design, and gaming. Requires completion of an instructional design plan for an instructional unit of the participants' choice for a learner group of their choice.
Teaches students to design and create media for content-specific units of instruction. Covers the use of technology specific to a given discipline, and teaches how to incorporate instructional design and digital media to create an online unit of study.
Introduces the principal methodologies used in research in education. Presents basic information about the purposes of research, the scientific method, and basic qualitative and quantitative research. Identifies methods for locating, reading, interpreting and using research reports and in applying measurement issues and research methods to classroom problems. Investigates teacher research practices and ways it can be used to study teaching and teacher education.
Introduces elementary statistics in educational settings and includes descriptive statistics, sampling, central tendency, and inferential methods. Emphasizes reading, understanding and evaluating statistics in research reports.
Introduces students to critical concepts about leadership theories and practice. Provides both historical perspective and current understanding to approaches, methods, and practices of leaders. Provides insight into how leadership skills and organization strategies produce increased productivity and better learning/working environments for P-12 students’ academic success and well-being. Provides opportunity for class members to examine their own beliefs and develop a personal model of leadership. Emphasizes attributes that promote integrity, fairness, transparency and trust.
Explores school finance, law, and safety as primary themes in school management and operations. Provides an overview of current K-12 management conditions and theory. Discusses these themes 1) best management theories and practices for not-for-profit organizations, 2) rules and regulations that govern school finance, 3) court rulings in areas of student speech, discipline, and other points of tensions in public schools, and 4) school organization to keep students physically and emotional safe.
Advances student understanding, skill, and capacity to facilitate coherent systems of curriculum development, impactful instruction, valid assessment. Builds professional capacity for data interpretation and decision making for the success and well-being of students and faculty.
Explores school communication, planning, human resources, and evaluation as primary themes in school management and operations. Provides an overview of current K-12 management conditions and theory. Reviews the role of legislation, policy, and leadership on the primary themes. Prepares students to communicate with stakeholders, strategically plan for school improvement, know best practices in the hiring and retention of public school staff.
Introduces students to critical concepts about building a school culture that leverages the strengths of collective solutions. Provides background information on the development of professional learning communities (PLCs) and how they can impact high student performance. Scaffolds student knowledge on how to organize and implement PLCs. Identifies leadership skills required to effectively manage change within the school setting. Introduces assessments to use in identifying challenges and summarizing impact of PLC fairness, transparency and trust.
Introduces critical concepts of school change. Addresses strategies to encourage and manage innovation and entrepreneurship. Prepares students to aid learners in developing deeper abilities to create, critique, and collaborate to solve complex challenges facing society. Prepares students to successfully manage change and innovation in teaching and learning in the 21st century. Guides students in learning to anticipate needed changes and to develop skills to effectively lead innovation in their school settings.
Provides working knowledge of action research methods in the public schools. Sets the standards for the professional M.Ed. action research-based project. Utilizes APA guidelines. Establishes techniques and strategies for successful project completion.
Introduces the teaching and learning cycle: planning, instruction, and assessment. Assists students in completing an authentic assessment tool that shows how they develop and evaluate student learning. Documents authentic practices from the student's teaching experience that address planning, instruction, assessment, analyzing teaching, and academic language to reveal the impact of a candidate's teaching performance on student learning. Course fee of $300 applies.
Provides first-hand, supervised, clinical experience in observing and implementing effective class management practices.
Includes 400 hours of student teaching experience in a secondary classroom, grades 7-12. Includes application of knowledge, skills, and attitudes derived in previous course work and program experience. Is required for students to be recommended for a secondary education license from the Utah State Office of Education. May be Graded Credit/No Credit. Course fee of $200 applies.
Provides Internship students with weekly interaction with supervisors that averages one hour per week of individual and/or triadic supervision throughout the internship, provided by (1) the site supervisor, (2) counselor education program faculty, or (3) a student supervisor who is under the supervision of a counselor education program faculty member. Engages internship students in an average of 1½ hours per week of group supervision on a regular schedule throughout the internship. Provides group supervision by a counselor education program faculty member or a student supervisor who is under the supervision of a counselor education program faculty member. Requires students to complete 300 of the 600 required clock hours of supervised counseling internship in roles and settings with clients relevant to their specialty area.
Provides a foundation in curriculum theory and practice. Introduces instructional design theories principles and models. Outlines the historical development, current processes and practices of curriculum development, instructional design, implementation, and assessment. Investigates research and theory about educational contexts, motivation, curriculum, learning, and development as they relate to models of instruction. Examines applications and processes of curriculum decision making and the impact of national standards for content areas to curriculum design and development in classroom and district settings.
Provides a comprehensive introduction of characteristics of children and youth with disabilities and topics related to models of service delivery, documentation procedures, and legal/ethical issues. Includes historical factors, legislation, etiology, characteristics, needs, educational strategies, including existing and emerging technologies, assessment, and support services for individuals with disabilities ranging from mild, moderate to severe levels of varying disabilities. Studies the impact of disabilities on academic and social/emotional performances.
Focuses on instructional design and delivery incorporating 21st century learning design and assessment. Introduces a range of instructional models and assessment tools. Requires planning and implementing instruction and assessment using several selected models.
Provides an in-depth understanding of differentiated instructional design and delivery. Focuses on planning and implementing instruction for a diverse classroom community.
Prepares teachers to teach English as a second language in U.S. public schools. Includes both theoretical and applied aspects of second language learning and teaching. Provides general and special educators and second language specialists techniques, activities, strategies and resources to plan instruction for English language learners (ELLs). Emphasizes oral language development, literacy and content-area instruction for teaching K-12 students.
Describes the variables that interact in the second language learning process, including linguistic, cognitive, social, cultural, and political factors. Examines learning a second language as both an individual and social experience. Examines the linguistic, cognitive, psychological, and emotional elements of learning a second language. Identifies the interactions between the individual and the contexts in which s/he interacts and then attempts to understand how they work together to foster or inhibit successful second language learning and acquisition.
Identifies the connections between language, culture, and identity. Examines multicultural education through a focus on the historical, sociological, and philosophical foundations of education. Emphasizes the role of ethnicity in the development of the United States and its education system. Outlines multicultural /multilingual curricula with a special focus on culturally/ linguistically-responsive instruction and assessment techniques.
Examines theory, methods, and practice in the testing of bilingual students at both the classroom level and the large-scale level in the context of school accountability. Focuses on assessment of language proficiency in English language learners (ELL) and the assessment of academic achievement of bilingual students in specific content areas. Develops and reviews tasks (test items), response formats, scoring systems, and test administration procedures as critical to attaining validity and fairness. Examines testing major current testing policies for linguistic minority students. Practicum required.
Focuses on how teachers can best meet the literacy and language needs of students from a variety of cultural, socioeconomic and language groups. Explores frameworks for providing high-quality literacy instruction to all students. Analyzes classrooms and schools that have been successful in accomplishing this. Examines ethnic identities and personal conceptions of diversity, and how these may impact instructional decisions. Analyzes students and families represented in their classrooms. Discusses ways to build bridges between home and school cultures.
Provides strategies for facilitating community participation in the education of minorities. Examines the role of the teacher in the classroom and community with the intention of developing insight and understanding of how the teacher's role in these areas impacts the adjustment of adolescents during grades 7-12. Considers models and methods for facilitating positive relationships. Studies the techniques of family-school collaboration as well as constructive methods of evaluation. Practicum required.
Introduces students to critical concepts about contemporary teacher leadership. Examines current issues and strategies impacting teacher leadership. Analyzes contemporary theories of learning and teaching from personal and public perspectives and how those theories converge with professional practice in classrooms and schools. Examines the philosophical foundations of curriculum and instruction in American schools, the social and cultural conditions that influence education, and new concepts in education curriculum materials, and methods of instruction from the perspective of teacher leadership.
Presents contemporary theories of learning and teaching from personal and public perspectives and how those theories converge with professional practice in classrooms and schools. Provides a study of the philosophical foundations of curriculum and instruction in American schools, the social and cultural conditions that influence education, and new concepts in education curriculum materials, and methods of instruction.
Ensures that those obtaining the Utah State Board of Education (USBE) Instructional Coaching endorsement are prepared with the requisite, foundational skill-set to effectively coach their fellow educators’ practice to improve student outcomes and overall educator effectiveness using the USBE Coaching Framework. Teaches the USBE Coaching Framework to ensure a level of consistency statewide among all institutions providing courses for the Instructional Coaching Endorsement.
Builds theoretical background knowledge and skills required for teaching adults in professional development or coaching, mentoring settings. Ensures that those pursuing and obtaining the Utah State Board of Education Instructional Coaching endorsement are prepared with the requisite, foundational skill-set to effectively coach their fellow educators’ practice to improve student outcomes and overall educator effectiveness.
Examines multiple critical lenses informing the higher education landscape on issues related to marginalization, identity, silence, under-representation and other factors that American higher education has historically been inadequate at addressing. Guides students to develop a personal framework based in reflexivity around biases. Synthesizes collegial, institutional, historical and contextual nuances to provide foundational knowledge. Develops a dispositional and interdisciplinary approach to facilitate inclusion within particular higher education roles and activities.
Examines legal frameworks, liability, compliance, constitutional and civil rights, competing rights of institutions, faculty, staff, and students, and contractual obligations in higher education. Explores the legal, ethical, institutional, and political processes that influence higher education and the relationship between law and the system of higher education. Critiques legal issues as a way to define the role and meaning of higher education in today’s society.
Examines organizational theory, models, governance, and management processes in higher education, leadership perspectives and leadership theory. Explores leadership as a discipline that transcends functional area, serving as a framework to lead and guide within higher education. Investigates leadership theories and formulates personal approach as an educational leader.
Examines the principles and practices of strategic planning, evaluation, accountability, and financial management in higher education institutions, operating units, and academic programs.
Presents various theories relevant to college student development and applies those theories to the field through class discussion, papers, and special projects. Introduces students to the major theories of learning, development, and retention and connects them with current practice.
Examines diverse models and systems of higher education in an effort to provide contexts for effective work and leadership in higher education environments. Explores the nuances of higher education institutions in terms of political dynamics, shared governance, technology, innovation, organizational culture, and external/internal constituent expectations and perceptions. Discusses U.S. and international models of higher education and future possibilities.
Designed for K-6 teachers. Covers the content of Number and Operations to develop a comprehensive understanding of our number system and relate its structure to computation, arithmetic, algebra, and problem solving. Includes number, number sense, computation, and estimation through a coordinated program of activities that develop number concepts and skills. Special attention in this course will be given to how children learn and connect the fundamental concepts of number systems, children's developmental trajectories in the mathematical content of number and operations, how children construct their understanding of various number systems and arithmetic, children's typical error patterns, problem solving strategies, interpreting and assessing students' work and learning, and integration of the NCTM process standards and the Utah Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs).
Provides practicing teachers a deeper understanding of rational numbers, operations with rational numbers, proportionality, and instructional strategies to facilitate the instruction of this content for elementary students.
Provides practicing teachers a deeper understanding of algebraic expressions, equations, functions, real numbers, and instructional strategies to facilitate the instruction of this content for elementary students.
Provides practicing teachers a deeper understanding of the geometry and measurement content that exists in the state core and instructional strategies to facilitate the instruction of this content. Special attention in this course will be given to how children learn and connect the fundamental concepts of geometry and measurement, children's developmental trajectories in this mathematical content, how children construct their understanding of various geometric concepts, children's typical error patterns, problem solving strategies, interpreting and assessing students' work and learning, and integration of the NCTM process standards and the Utah Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs).
Develops a firm problem-solving foundation. Using skills and strategies applied in mathematical contexts practicing teachers will learn to think, work with others, present solutions orally to the whole class, and write up detailed solutions. Provides practicing teachers a deeper understanding of probability and data representation and analysis. Special attention in this course will be given to children's typical error patterns, problem solving strategies, interpreting and assessing students' work and learning, and integration of the NCTM process standards and the Utah Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs).
Provides practicing teachers a deeper understanding of the various types of assessment and their appropriate use for guiding instruction, intervention, and evaluation of student learning of mathematics content. Teaches how to screen students for mathematics problems or potential mathematics problems, diagnose students' mathematics strengths and needs, and monitor students' progress to ensure students will make optimal progress in mathematics. Teaches procedures for managing and analyzing assessment data.
Prepares teachers of GT learners to better understand the field as an evolving and changing discipline influenced by history, philosophies, research-based principles and theories, relevant laws and policies, cultural and historical points of view, and human issues that influence professional practice, including assessment, instructional planning, delivery, and program evaluation. Explores characteristics of gifted individuals with emphasis on identifying needs and a general overview of possible services for gifted learners. Prepares teachers to advocate for GT students and their programs in schools and school districts. Emphasizes discussing and finding applications from current research in gifted, talented, and advanced education.
Explores current research and material relevant to the social and emotional issues that may arise for gifted and talented students. Focuses on current research through discussions, projects, and classroom observation. Develops a deeper understanding of social and emotional issues that students with gifts and talents experience in K-12 classrooms. Applies findings from current and seminal literature in the field. Includes classroom observations of connections between cognitive development and affective domain. Includes 15 hours of field experience/practicum in addition to class time.
Prepares teachers to use the results of a variety of assessment tools for both identification and learning progress decisions. Defines the processes of identification, legal policies, and ethical principles of measurement and assessment related to referral, eligibility, program planning, instruction, and placement. Includes current and historic documents and research to contrast ideas of determining “giftedness” throughout history with modern conceptions underlying gifted and talented education. Includes 15 field experience/practicum hours in addition to class time.
Prepares teachers to understand societal influences on the development of curricula. Focuses on long- and short-range units of instruction anchored in both general and special curricula for gifted and talented students. Addresses individual’s abilities and needs, the learning environment, and cultural and linguistic factors. Includes current research-based classroom practices.
Requires teacher-participants to locate, create, and or adapt curricular materials and methods of instruction needed to implement differentiated instruction for gifted and talented learners. Encourages creative problem-solving for a variety of student abilities and needs, the learning environment, and cultural and linguistic factors that may influence instruction. Requires application of current findings from the literature to the evaluation of methods and materials for gifted and talented instruction.
Prepares teachers of gifted and talented students with the selection, adaptation, creation, and implementation of differentiated instructional models and strategies, especially those related to fostering creativity. Evaluates current research on outcomes from instruction based on creative processes that are designed to foster creative, critical, and analytic thinking. Requires15 field experience/practicum hours in addition to class time.
Focuses on curriculum-based measurement, the assessment/instructional cycle, and how to use assessment data to design and implement instructional interventions to increase students' reading achievement. Studies the four federal assessment categories: screening, progress monitoring, diagnosis, and outcomes, as well as assessment instruments within the various categories and the 3-tiered model. Focuses on building students' oral language and background knowledge, teaching alphabet knowledge and phonemic awareness, teaching students to use and recognize and use common phonic spelling patterns, building vocabulary, increasing fluency, teaching students to apply comprehension strategies, and fostering students reading engagement. Describes reading assessments and interventions that are appropriate at the primary, intermediate, and secondary levels.
Provides foundational knowledge about literacy instruction, including an historical perspective on reading instruction, an introduction to theories and models of literacy acquisition, a study of language systems and language acquisition, and theories related to the literacy development of people across the lifespan and their instructional implications. Includes the debates and various stances of reading researchers, and the instructional directives that grew out of the research.
Designed to help students understand the history, major perspectives and theories about how young children understand literacy. Focuses on developmentally appropriate instruction and the value of play relating to oral and print literacy in kindergarten and the primary grades. Examines literacy development within the larger framework of the communicative arts, i.e., oracy, written expression, reading, spelling, handwriting, listening, the visual and performing arts, and the social community, i.e., family, socioeconomic conditions, culture, ethnicity, language, etc.
Designed to help practicing teachers develop an in-depth understanding of the research findings, issues, principles and practices related to exemplary, research-based reading and writing instruction in the content areas. Covers the use of textbooks and nonfiction reading materials for young students who are beginning readers and writers. Focuses on how to assist all learners to read, understand and learn from nonfiction reading materials. Covers assisting students at all grade levels in their reading of materials and writing of text related to science, social studies, history, math art, music, etc.
Provides practicing secondary teachers with concepts, models, and strategies to support adolescent literacy instruction. Familiarizes teachers with practical constructs for understanding adolescent literacy, its importance, how it can be fostered and employed for student learning, how the challenges of adolescent literacy differ from the challenges of early reading instruction, and how systematic interventions can help remediate chronic failure in literacy and learning. Teaches effective literacy improvement practices that can be realistically implemented in the context of secondary teachers' many demands.
Focuses on reading comprehension instruction as the essence of reading. Emphasizes the theoretical foundations that support comprehension such as schema theory and the construction-integration theory. Includes the following five research-supported strategies: activating prior knowledge, questioning, analyzing text structure, creating mental or visual images and summarizing. Teaches how to offer explicit teacher-led comprehension strategy instruction that will lead to helping their students coordinate a set of comprehension strategies. Teaches how to help students construct meaning through rich discussions and interactions around a variety of text structures and genres. Prepares teachers to provide scaffolded support including demonstrations, pictures, diagrams, and collaboration with other students.
Focuses on using effective strategies for teaching writing across the curriculum and for diverse populations. Teaches application of the writing process, writing workshop, and interactive writing procedures in the classroom. Covers the development of orthographic knowledge and how to assess student work using the Qualitative Spelling Inventory and the Six-Trait Writing Model.
Prepares teachers to teach English as a second language in U.S. public schools. Includes both theoretical and applied aspects of second language learning and teaching. Provides general and special educators and second language specialists techniques, activities, strategies and resources to plan instruction for English language learners (ELLs). Emphasizes oral language development, literacy and content-area instruction for teaching K-12 students.
Provides teachers with a deep and useful understanding of force and the nature of how students use concepts of force to make sense of phenomena across life, earth, and physical science. Explores the theory of and enhances teacher insights into: 1) how force, matter and energy interact, 2) the relationship of force to energy and interactions within fields, and 3) pedagogical content knowledge around teaching and learning about force. Also connects knowledge of concepts of force to practices in technology, engineering and mathematics, and engages participants in evaluating technology appropriate to elementary STEM instruction. Requires participants to make connections between current learning theories and methods of STEM instruction.
Models effective and engaging instructional practices for teaching about matter in the elementary classroom, and connects knowledge of concepts of matter to practices in technology, engineering and mathematics. Requires participants to design and implement STEM lessons that will help elementary students use content knowledge about matter to make sense of phenomena across life, earth, and physical science. Designed to help participants gain insights into: 1) how matter and energy interact, 2) the relationships of matter to forces and interactions within fields, and 3) pedagogical content knowledge for teaching about matter. Involves participants in active instructional strategies and pedagogical theories. Focuses on designing learning environments that support collaborative learning and engagement in STEM lessons.
Explores the nature of science using science and engineering principles, practices, and processes. Investigates applications of learning theory to Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics using problem-based learning experiences. Requires participants to develop teaching practices to assist them in integrating engineering practices across disciplines as they apply Utah Science Standards to elementary STEM instruction.
Engages participants in developing meaningful understandings of problem-based approaches to teaching, learning, and the integration of STEM practices across the curriculum using appropriate technology. Requires participants to demonstrate their skills through the development of problem-based, hands-on learning experiences for elementary students, based on findings from current research and theory of cognitive development. Critically evaluates technology for STEM education, based on current national guidelines.
Provides instruction regarding writing a formal classroom-based research project proposal to present to the School of Education Graduate Board. Supports students in obtaining human subject clearance. May be repeated for a maximum of 2 credits toward graduation. Course will be graded credit/no credit.
Provides support regarding Implementation of the classroom-based applied research project. Course will be graded credit/no credit. May be repeated for a maximum of 2 credits toward graduation.
Provides support regarding completion of a classroom-based applied research project and acceptance of the classroom-based applied project by the School of Education graduate Board. Course will be graded credit/no credit. May be repeated for a maximum of 9 credits toward graduation.
Provides individual instruction for Master of Education students wishing to further their understanding of the field of education. Focuses on individual research regarding instructional methods and/or assessment. May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credits. Graded Credit/No Credit.
