Gannon University

Director: Francis Grandinetti, Ed.D.

OBJECTIVES
The School of Education offers a program leading to a Master of Education degree designed to facilitate a higher level of teacher performance. The core courses focus on the mastery of teaching effectiveness for teachers in grades K through 12. The objectives will enable the teacher to:

• Develop the verbal skills and strategies that produce mastery of positive communication
• Acquire skills that increase student thinking and self-esteem through the instruction process
• Use instructional strategies to reach the learning style preferences of students
• Create lesson formats and instructional processes (induction, deduction, inquiry, analysis, and synthesis) that match the learning and thinking styles of students
• Develop skills to create a motivating learning environment

• A Bachelor’s degree from an approved institution and fulfillment of requirements for admission to the graduate program at Gannon University
• Have an undergraduate cumulative grade point average of at least 3.0 on a 4.0 scale
• A completed application for admission including three letters of recommendation
• Evidence by previous academic record that the applicant has the general ability and preparation necessary to pursue graduate study successfully

Core Courses/Performance Learning Systems
Teaching Effectiveness (12 credits)
GEDU 660 Successful Teaching for Acceptance of Responsibility (3 credits)
GEDU 663 Brain Based Ways We Think and Learn (3 credits)
GEDU 665 Building Your Technology Education & Skills (3 credits)
GEDU 682 Purposeful Learning Through Multiple Intelligences (3 credits)
GEDU 683 Discovering the power of Live-Event Learning (3 credits)
GEDU 685 Meaningful Activities in Generating Interesting Classrooms (3 credits)
GEDU 686 Teaching the Skills of the 21st Century (3 credits)
GEDU 688 Achieving Student Outcomes through Cooperative Learning (3 credits)
GEDU 689 Coaching Skills for Successful Teaching (3 credits)
GEDU 691 Project T.E.A.C.H. (3 credits)
GEDU 693 P.R.I.D.E. (3 credits)
GEDU 694 Teaching through Learning Channels (3 credits)
GEDU 697 Keys to Motivation (3 credits)

*For a current list of PLS offerings, go to www.plsweb.com

Foundation courses (6 credits)
GEDU 611 Philosophy of Education (3 credits)
GEDU 613 History of Education (3 credits)
GEDU 614 Sociology of Education (3 credits)
GEDU 615 Urban Education (3 credits)
GEDU 621 School Curriculum (required) (3 credits)

Research courses (9 credits)
GEDU 600 Introduction to Graduate Statistics (4 credits)
GEDU 601 Educational Research Methods (3 credits)
GEDU 696 Directed Research and Special Topics (2-4 credits)

Enrollment in GEDU 696 is contingent upon approval from the program director.

Elective Emphasis Sequence (9 credits)
Selected and planned in consultation with the program advisor.

Total Credits 36

Upon application as a degree candidate, the student will be assigned an advisor. At that point, a program appropriate to the needs of the student will be designed cooperatively.

Master of Education: Curriculum and Instruction Outreach and Weekend Cohort Program

Director: Francis Grandinetti, Ed.D.
 

OBJECTIVES
The School of Education offers an outreach cohort program leading to a Master of Education degree designed to facilitate a higher level of teacher performance. Candidates are part of a dynamic cohort community, which shares the goals associated with agents of change. This requires mastery of knowledge, dispositions, and performances that enable practicing teachers to become:

• More knowledgeable about curriculum, learning, instruction, and assessment
  
• Reflective practitioners as life-long learners
  
• More proficient as classroom teachers
  
• More influential teacher-facilitator leaders
  
• More confident in establishing teacher-principal partnerships that lead to change or innovation, producing greater success for students
  
• Proficient action researchers

• A Bachelor’s degree from an approved institution and fulfillment of requirements for admission to the graduate programs at Gannon University
  
• Have an undergraduate cumulative grade point average of at least 3.0 on a 4.0 scale
  
• A completed application for admission including three letters of recommendation
  
• Evidence by previous academic record that the applicant has the general ability and preparation necessary to pursue graduate study successfully

Applied Masters Portfolio inclusion courses (25 credits)
GEDU 503 Educational Leadership (3 credits)
GEDU 505 Classroom Discipline (3 credits)
GEDU 601 Educational Research Methods (3 credits)
GEDU 602 Portfolio Project (Degree requirement) (1 credit)
GEDU 603 Current Issues in Education (3 credits)
GEDU 604 Student Assessment and Educational Statistics (3 credits)
GEDU 621 School Curriculum (3 credits)
GEDU 637 Learning Theory (3 credits)
GEDU 650 Advanced Educational Computing (3 credits)
ELECTIVES (12 credits)
Students have four options to satisfy the elective requirement:
Option 1: Twelve credits of electives can be selected and planned in consultation with the student’s academic advisor. Students can choose an approved sequence of Gannon University courses offered on campus in one of, but not limited to, the following areas:
Natural Sciences Environmental Education
English Reading

Option 2: Students can earn a graduate-level certificate on campus in one of the following areas:
Religious Education (12 credits)
Reading (12 credits)

Option 3: Students can choose to take Performance Learning Systems, Inc. (PLS) courses, which are offered both at Gannon University and throughout western Pennsylvania. Check with the School of Education or the Center for Adult Learning for the latest PLS brochure with course offerings, dates, times, and locations. PLS information is also available online at www.plsweb.com.

Option 4: A 12-credit combination from Option 1 and Option 3.

Performance Learning Systems Teaching Effectiveness (12 credits)
GEDU 682 Purposeful Learning through Multiple Intelligences (3 credits)
GEDU 683 Discovering the Power of Live-Event Learning (3 credits)
GEDU 685 Meaningful Activities in Generating Interesting Classrooms (3 credits)
GEDU 688 Achieving Student Outcomes through Cooperative Learning (3 credits)
GEDU 689 Coaching Skills for Successful Teaching (3 credits)
GEDU 691 Project T.E.A.C.H. (3 credits)
GEDU 693 P.R.I.D.E. (3 credits)
GEDU 694 Teaching through Learning Channels (3 credits)
GEDU 697 Keys to Motivation (3 credits)
GEDU 663 Brain Based Ways We Think and Learn (3 credits)
GEDU 686 Teaching the Skills of the 21st Century (3 credits)
GEDU 660 Successful Teaching for Acceptance of Responsibility (3 credits)
GEDU 665 Building Your Technology Education and Skills (3 credits)
*For a current list of PLS offerings, go to www.plsweb.com
Total Credits: 37

Upon application as a degree candidate in the Outreach Cohort Program, students will be assigned to a cohort in their region. All of the Applied Masters Portfolio inclusion courses will be completed as a cohort community.

Master of Education: Reading & Reading Specialist Certification Programs
Director: Kathleen Kingston, Ed.D.

PHILOSOPHY
Literacy is the key to children’s success and provides communication links with society throughout life. The Master of Education degree in Reading and the Reading Specialist Certification Program provide training to become a reading professional who can function collaboratively and in a variety of capacities. Preparation consists of theory, application, and implementation of research-based instruction and assessment practices. The Reading Specialist is trained in instruction and assessment techniques and given leadership opportunities to promote literacy programs for students, parents, other educators, and the community.

The School of Education offers a Master of Education degree in Reading, including preparation for the Reading Specialist Certification.

OUTCOMES
The Master of Education Candidate and/or the Reading Specialist Candidate:

• Knows literacy history, theory, and methodology
  
• Applies theory and knowledge of literacy instruction
  
• Identifies, selects, and applies literature, textbooks, curricular
  materials as well as technology for all learners
  
• Demonstrates the use and interpretation of formal and informal
  assessment procedures and communicates results and
  implications to appropriate stakeholders
  
• Maintains indicators of student progress and achievement
  
• Aligns Pennsylvania Language Arts Standards with instruction
  and assessment
  
• Consults and collaborates using knowledge of literacy practices,
  including reading and writing processes
  
• Demonstrates leadership in home, school, and community
  literacy environments
  

• A completed application for admission including 3 letters of
  recommendation
  
• Official transcript showing completion of a Bachelor’s degree
  from a regionally accredited college or university
  
• Teacher certification and a 3.0 GPA on a 4.0 scale
  
• Evidence by previous academic record that the applicant has
  the general ability and preparation necessary to pursue graduate
  study successfully
  
• A personal interview with the Program Director
  

PROGRAM OF STUDY**
Requirements for Reading Specialist Certification (30 credits total)
 

GEDU 506 Human Growth and Development (Life Span) (3 credits)
GEDU 601 Educational Research Methods (3 credits)
GEDU 621 School Curriculum (3 credits)
GEDU 625 Content Area Literacy Instruction for Elementary Students (3 credits)
GEDU 626 Foundations of Literacy in Elementary Programs (3 credits)
GEDU 627 Foundations of Literacy in Secondary Programs (3 credits)
GEDU 645 Literacy and Leadership Practicum and Seminar (3 credits)
GEDU 647 Assessment of Literacy Development/Clinical Application (6 credits)
GEDU 640 Young Adult Literature (3 credits) OR
GEDU 641 Children’s Literature (3 credits)

Also Required:
Pennsylvania requires candidates to successfully pass the Reading Specialist K-12 Praxis Exam for certification.

Additional Requirements for Master of Education: Reading (39 credits total)
GEDU 504 Adult Literacy (3 credits)
GEDU 600 Introduction to Graduate Statistics (4 credits)
GEDU 696 Directed Research and Special Topics (2 credits)
(Prerequisites GEDU 600 and GEDU 601)

Also required:

• Completion of a thesis under the direction of a thesis committee.
  
• If certification is sought, the Reading Specialist Praxis Exam must be passed prior to seeking certification.
  

• Complete an application for admission including three letters of recommendation including one from a chief school officer where the applicant is employed and another from a principal or immediate supervisor
  
• Have a Bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited college or university
  
• Have an undergraduate cumulative grade point average of at least 3.0 on a 4.0 scale
  
• Possess personal and professional characteristics and an academic background believed to be conducive to success in the field of school administration as determined by the program director

PROGRAM OF STUDY
Requirements for Educational Leadership (33 credits)

Research Techniques (3 credits)
                    GEDU 601 Educational Research Methods (3)

Foundations of Education (3 credits)
                    GEDU 611 Philosophy of Education (3)
                    GEDU 614 Sociology of Education (3)

Organizational Behavior (3 credits)
                    GEDU 503 Educational Leadership (3)

Curriculum and Supervision (6 credits)
                    GEDU 621 School Curriculum (3)
                    GEDU 720 Supervision and Evaluation of Instruction (3)

Leadership Functions (18 credits) – MUST take the four noted with **, plus two of student’s choice
GEDU 603 Current Issues in Education (3) **
GEDU 615 Urban Education (3)
GEDU 616 School and Community Relations (3) **
GEDU 617 Administration of School Personnel (3) **
GEDU 618 Dynamics and Processes of Change (3) **
GEDU 637 Learning Theory (3)
GEDU 722 School Financial Management (3)
GEDU 723 Legal Aspects of Educational Administration (3)
GEDU 724 Computer Applications for Administration (3)
GEDU 743 Collective Bargaining and Labor Relations (3)
GEDU 729 Independent Study in Educational Leadership (3)

Educational Leadership: Principal K-12 Certification Program
Director: Kathleen Kingston, Ed.D.

OVERVIEW
The principal is the professional staff member of the school in the most strategic position to encourage, initiate, and guide changes needed to improve the learning environment. The Principal Certification program at Gannon University has been developed on the premise that the building principal can be an effective, visionary leader of change. A principal possesses and utilizes skills that give them an in-depth knowledge of school organizations and structures within a social, psychological, and political environment, as well as an understanding of how to enhance learning and manage the fiscal operation of the school. A good principal also takes a proactive role in both school and community relations.

Those interested in the program must have completed a Master’s degree in Education or a related field. The Pennsylvania Department of Education requires a minimum of five years of professional school experience and completion of an approved program of study to be certified as a principal. Candidates for principal certification must also successfully pass the appropriate Praxis exam.

ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Applicants must:

• Complete an application for admission and submit three letters of recommendation, including one from the current principal and one from the current superintendent or assistant superintendent
  
• Have a Master’s degree in Education or related field from a regionally accredited program
  
• 3.0 GPA
  
• Submit final, official transcripts from graduate degree-granting institution(s)
  
• Present a copy of educational certification
  

Educational Leadership, Superintendent Letter of Eligibility Certification Program
Director: Kathleen Kingston, Ed.D.

OVERVIEW
Formal leadership in schools and school districts is a complex, multifaceted task. Effective school leaders are strong educators, anchoring their work on central issues of learning, teaching, and school improvement. They are moral agents and social advocates for the children and the communities they serve. Finally, they make strong connections with other people, valuing and caring for others as individuals and as members of the educational community.

ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Applicants must:

• Complete an application for admission and submit three letters of recommendation, including one from the current superintendent
  
• Have a Master’s degree in Education or a related field from a regionally accredited program
  
• 3.0 GPA
  
• Submit final, official transcripts from graduate degree-granting institution
  
• Have taken these graduate-level prerequisites:
  Research Techniques and Statistics (3)
  Curriculum Course (3)
  School Law (3)
  School Finance (3)
  
  

COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

GEDU 503 Educational Leadership
3 credits
This course studies models of leadership, issues dealing with human development, communications, culture, change management, developing leadership capacity, and assessment of leadership.

GEDU 504 Adult Literacy
3 credits
Through direct tutoring and field seminars, the exploration of a variety of philosophies, approaches, and materials used for reading and numeracy instruction of the adult learner is experienced. Familiarity with the social, psychological, and multicultural characteristics of the adult learner is stressed.


GEDU 505 Classroom Discipline
3 credits
This course is a study of major educational disciplines, theory, and practical application for teachers as they use their knowledge and skills for effective classroom discipline.

GEDU 506 Human Growth and Development (Life Span)
3 credits
This course provides a broad study of developmental theories and concepts from conception throughout the life span. There is exploration of events, circumstances, and strategies that influence and promote normal development.

GEDU 518 Multicultural Aspects of the Helping Professions/
Cross Cultural Communication 3 credits
This course will help students to develop an appreciation for and sensitivity to points of view in a pluralistic society. Various cultures will be presented from the perspective of family structure, family coping mechanisms, communication style, and interface with the community, interpersonal coping style, identity, and history.

GEDU 519 The Structures of English 3 credit
This course is a descriptive study of the structures of modern American English. Emphasis is placed on the special characteristics of the English language and the principles and approaches to teaching English to non-native speakers.

GEDU 540 American Sign Language I
3 credits
This course will teach a basic vocabulary of signs used in American Sign Language, the true language of Deaf Americans. Students will learn important aspects of ASL grammar and ASL culture, and will be given a brief introduction to hearing loss and practical issues in the education of Deaf children.

GEDU 541 American Sign Language II
3 credits
This course will teach more advanced vocabulary of signs used in American Sign Language. It will also analyze conversational settings of various Deaf and hearing signers. Detailed aspects of ASL grammar and ASL culture will be taught. A major emphasis is placed on expressive signing by students. Practical issues in Deaf culture and in Deaf education will be discussed.

GEDU 550 Student Teaching
6 credits
Prerequisite: Permission of Education Department
This experience in the field encompasses one full semester of directed observation and supervised student teaching, with gradual assumption of total teaching responsibilities. This course is taken in conjunction with a professional seminar course, GEDU 690.

GEDU 591 Seminar: Selected Topics in Education
1-3 credits

GEDU 592 Seminar: Selected Topics in Education
1-3 credits

GEDU 593 Seminar: Selected Topics in Education
1-3 credits

GEDU 600 Introduction to Graduate Statistics
4 credits
Prerequisite: EDCR 330 or other beginning course in descriptive statistics.
An intermediate to advanced course in statistics applicable to educational research settings. The general emphasis is on commonly used inferential and parametric techniques with a brief review of descriptive statistics. Topics covered include correlation, linear and multiple regression, sampling and sampling distributions, t-test, chi-square, one and two factor Analysis of Variance, and parametric statistics.

GEDU 601 Educational Research Methods
3 credits
This course provides students with the opportunity to examine standard methods of conducting and reporting educational research. It is designed to provide the knowledge and practice needed to apply literature reviews and collection of data to problem solving and making informed decisions. Students complete chapters one through three of a research paper.

GEDU 602 Portfolio Project Degree Requirement
1credit
The final development, presentation and evaluation of the portfolio project.

GEDU 603 Current Issues in Education
3 credits
This course provides the opportunity for graduate students to explore current education topics in depth.

GEDU 604 Student Assessment/ Educational Statistics
3 credits
This course explores the various statistics and assessments that teachers utilize in their classrooms.

GEDU 611 Philosophy of Education
3 credits
This course examines the major philosophies, curriculum, and educational values in education.

GEDU 613 History of Education
3 credits
This course is a survey of the development of educational theory and practice from earliest times to the present with special emphasis on the development of American schools.

GEDU 614 Sociology of Education
3 credits
This course is an analysis of social relationships with a special emphasis on parents, students, teachers, and administrators.

GEDU 615 Urban Education
3 credits
This course is an analysis of current controversial issues arising in the urban school. Students examine community control of schools, educating a diverse student population, desegregation, neighborhood schools, religion in the school, federal aid, innovative curricula, and teaching methods.

GEDU 616 School and Community Relations
3 credits
This seminar will view the school as a dynamic cultural entity. The graduate student will assess the school’s interdependence on the community and its many publics, the importance of a sound public relations program for the school, and the need to communicate with and understand the community.

GEDU 617 Administration of School Personnel 3 credits
This seminar studies dimensions in school personnel administration and includes the principles of recruitment, selection, and practices essential to a functional integration of the individual into the school system.

GEDU 618 Dynamics and Processes of Change 3 credits
This seminar studies the dynamics and processes involved in change and in determining effective, efficient means to facilitate desired change.

GEDU 621 School Curriculum
3 credits
This course examines the theory, history, purposes, and evolution of curriculum. Knowledge, understanding, and the skills necessary to analyze and generate school curriculum and to take a leadership role in curricular changes are emphasized.

GEDU 625 Content Area Literacy Instruction for Elementary Students
3 credits
This course is designed to enable teachers to integrate literacy instruction into the elementary curricula. Current theory and best practices in integrating the language modes and thinking strategies that support them are examined.

GEDU 626 Foundations of Literacy in Elementary Programs
3 credits
This course explores components of the elementary reading program: emergent literacy, phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and text comprehension, as well as literacy programs and procedures in the elementary school. State and national standards are also addressed.

GEDU 627 Foundations of Literacy in Secondary Programs
3 credits
This course explores existing programs and recent research concerning reading programs in the secondary schools including staffing patterns, reading, and study skills in the content areas, vocabulary development and enrichment, interpretive reading, and critical reading skills. State and national standards are also addressed.

GEDU 637 Learning Theory
3 credits
This course examines human learning processes, the nature and kinds of learning, factors that influence learning, and major learning theories.

GEDU 640 Young Adult Literature
3 credits
This comprehensive course reviews young adult literature genres, authors, and selection of books for young adults.

GEDU 641 Children’s Literature
3 credits
This comprehensive course consists of the critical examination of children’s books and outstanding writers and illustrators in the field of children’s literature,

GEDU 645 Literacy and Leadership Practicum and Seminar
3 credits
This course is designed to focus upon current issues in literacy and leadership. Students complete a 25-hour literacy and leadership practicum.

GEDU 647 Assessment of Literacy Development/Clinical Application
6 credits
This course provides experience in formal and informal assessment and data interpretation. Students are responsible for implementation of instructional programs based upon assessment data. A 75-hour clinical practicum is required.

GEDU 650 Advanced Educational Computing
3 credits
Prerequisites: EDUC 214 or any other introductory course.
This course will focus on the assessment and planning stages of the instructional design process. Students will engage in applied learning activities, which stress the use of computer productivity tools for text/data processing and making presentations, technology assessment, and planning. This course has an online component that requires students to have computer and Internet access.

GEDU 679 Curriculum Design and Instructional Technique in Environmental Education
3 credits
Students will explore various educational processes that deal with people’s relationship with their total environments, including the interaction of population, pollution, resource allocations and depletions, conservation, transportation, and technology with a focus on urban and rural planning as it relates to the total human environment. Students will also review current programs and materials in environmental education as well as current research projects.

GEDU 690 Graduate Education Seminar
3 credits
This seminar will focus on a current issue or topic in education, and is taken with student teaching, GEDU 550.

GEDU 696 Directed Research and Special Topics
2-4 credits
Prerequisite: GEDU 600, Introduction to Graduate Statistics and GEDU 601, Educational Research Methods
In this course, students refine their research from the prerequisite courses and complete chapter 4 and 5 of their research paper.

GEDU 720 Supervision and Evaluation of Instruction
3 credits
This course provides an introduction to the nature of instructional supervision. It provides competencies in the appraisal of teaching, the measurement of teacher performance, and familiarity with techniques related to the evaluation of teaching. It includes systematic analysis and evaluation, and integrates the current concepts, planning, measurement instruments, and validity of appraisal systems.

GEDU 721 The Principal as Instructional Leader
3 credits
This course examines the activities of the elementary, middle, and high school administrator in depth. It includes topics on general administration, the staff, students, curriculum, finances, services, equipment and supplies, school plant, and public and professional relationships.

GEDU 722 School Financial Management
3 credits
This course examines the legal and other factors governing financial policies and practices in public schools, sources of revenue, budgeting, disbursement of funds, school plant, records, and insurance. It emphasizes knowledge and understanding of the major tasks and methods involved in meeting financial responsibilities in the school and the educational system.

GEDU 723 Legal Aspects of Educational Administration
3 credits
This course examines the major areas of school law with particular emphasis on the school code of Pennsylvania. Topics include tort liability of school officials and teachers, the legal structure of public education, control of pupil conduct, desegregation, church-school relations, teachers’ rights and responsibilities, pupils’ rights, professional negotiations, the courts’ impact on curriculum, the use of school property, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, and the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, in addition to issues in the area of special education.

GEDU 724 Computer Applications for Administration
3 credits
This course provides a review of different levels of computer literacy and the administrator’s role in integrating technology into the educational setting. Possible topics include scheduling, curriculum management systems, online educational programs, management information systems, databases, data analysis, and personnel screening.

GEDU 725 Principal Practicum I
1 credit

GEDU 726 Principal Practicum II
1 credit

GEDU 727 Principal Practicum III
1 credit

GEDU 728 Principal Internship
3 credits
This course is designed to be the capstone experience of the Principal Certification program. The course will provide experiences designed to develop and enhance the overall effectiveness of the administrative candidate’s competencies. The internship is designed as an integrating experience and an opportunity for the student to practice those skills and competencies learned in the classroom setting and to learn certain skills best taught in a school environment. It consists of planned experiences and emphasizes direct involvement in school administration at sites mutually acceptable to the student and the program director.

GEDU 729 Independent Study
1-3 credits

GEDU 740 The Superintendency
3 credits
This course focuses on the role and functions of the superintendent in relation to other administrative officers, staff, and board of education. Attention is given to the selection, assignment and orientation of staff, decision-making, personnel problems, administering the school district, negotiations and collective bargaining, financial operation of the school, administering school facilities and plant management, community relations, legal concerns of the school district, and policy making.

GEDU 741 Organizational Leadership: Theory and Practice
3 credits
This course examines management and organizational theories and their application to administrative practice. Systems models are studied to gain insight into administrative processes such as strategic planning, decision-making, group motivation, communication, goal-setting, delegating, conflict resolution, and building leadership capacity.

GEDU 742 Educational Facilities and School Plant
3 credits
This course is designed to familiarize the prospective educational leadership administrator with the issues and problems of new plant construction, renovation, and rehabilitation of existing buildings and facility maintenance. The utilization of demographic, curriculum, resource, and energy data, as well as state building construction guidelines will be presented and studied.

GEDU 743 Collective Bargaining and Labor Relations
3 credits
This course enhances leadership through study of negotiations and labor relations in public education. Topics and issues explored include an in-depth analysis of contract negotiations, grievance procedures, mediation, and arbitration for all school employees. Theories and practices in staff recruitment, selection, assignment, orientation, evaluation, professional development, and retrenchment are studied.

GEDU 744 Business Administration and Finance in Public Education
3 credits
This course identifies and assesses methods of financing public education. Included are the processes of educational planning and financing for staff, instructional processes, and physical plant; the study of federal and state funding sources; the nature of taxing authorities; the subsidy system; grants and entitlements to public education; and future trends and options in creative financial planning. The business operation of the public school is examined. There is an in-depth investigation of budget preparation, long and short-term investing, bonding, under-writing, tax collecting, and construction planning .

GEDU 745 Superintendent Practicum I
1 credit

GEDU 746 Superintendent Practicum II
1 credit

GEDU 747 Superintendent Practicum III
1 credit

GEDU 748 Superintendent Internship
3 credits
This course is designed to bridge the gap between theory and practice. The administration student will become actively involved in the operation of the central office and will perform the functions and duties of central office personnel, completing several projects throughout the internship. A professional seminar will be scheduled to allow students to share their experiences with their university supervisor and other administration students. The university supervisor will perform periodic on-site visits to assess the growth and development of the administrative intern.

GEDU 749 Independent Study in Educational Leadership—Superintendent
1-3 credits
This course is designed to provide students with the opportunity to organize and conduct research in the area of educational administration under the supervision of a faculty member, but independent of scheduled meetings and regular assignments.

PERFORMANCE LEARNING SYSTEMS

GEDU 660 Successful Teaching for Acceptance of Responsibility
3 credits
Help students increase self-responsible behaviors and assume increasing amounts of control over their school lives. Create a classroom that models, invites, and teaches self-responsible behaviors.

GEDU 661 Parent Teacher Conferencing
1 credit
Student will learn to successfully internalize the ideas and strategies of effective parent conferencing.

GEDU 662 Strategies For Cooperating Teachers
1 credit
Cooperating teachers learn the skills necessary to identify teacher strengths as well as areas for growth.

GEDU 663 Brain Based Ways We Think and Learn
3 credits
Understand four complex thinking processes. Develop lesson plans that impart critical thinking and problem solving skills. Discover the link between the brain and effective teaching practices.

GEDU 664 Motivation by Design
3 credits
This course guides participants to experience, design, and share on going highly motivated learning strategies. This is done while building supportive environments in which students are willing and motivated to learn and grow. Add more energy to your classroom and enthusiasm in your teaching.

GEDU 665 Building Your Technology Education and Skills
3 credits
Understand the power of technology to enhance teaching, create educational materials, manage classroom chores, provide motivational instruction, and research the vast virtual world of the internet. Create PowerPoint presentations.

GEDU 667 Learningto Read: Beginning Reading Instruction
3 credits
Learn to implement a balanced, integrated approach to teaching beginning reading centered on scientific strategies aligned with state and national reading research initiatives.

GEDU 668 Differentiated Instruction for Today’s Classroom
3 credits
Acquire the essential knowledge and skills to implement differentiated instruction successfully in your own classroom. Gain expertise in using practical and effective strategies for differentiating a standards-based curriculum, creating learning experiences and a classroom environment in which all students can thrive and achieve.

GEDU 682 Purposeful Learning Through Multiple Intelligences
3 credits
Based on the work of Howard Gardner, this course focuses on understanding the characteristics of each of the eight intelligences. Find out your own dominant intelligences. Participate in discovery centers to experience each intelligence. Using real-life examples, practice identifying people’s dominant intelligence. Learn teaching strategies and classroom activities that enhance the intelligences. Find out how to design lessons incorporating all eight intelligences into the lesson framework. View four schools’ programs for integrating the intelligences in a school-wide framework.

GEDU 683 Discovering the Power of Live-Event Learning
3 credits
This course gives you a direct experience of using live events - real-life experiences - as a basis for lesson plans, which integrate academic curriculum with important life skills. Mirroring cognitive research about how the brain takes in and stores information, this course allows you to practice and promote lifelong learning habits. Carefully selected videotapes, articles, and substantive research document the need to provide meaning and impart learning for students in a real-world environment.

GEDU 684 Reading to Learn: Comprehension Instruction
3 credits
Learn to implement a balanced, integrated approach to teaching reading comprehension centered on scientific strategies aligned with state and national reading research initiatives.

GEDU 685 Meaningful Activities to Generate Interesting Classrooms
3 credits
This highly interactive course provides dozens of exciting, engaging learning activities that are experienced firsthand. Teachers will learn how to structure new and interesting activities that unlock the creative minds of their students. Many powerful learning strategies, such as simulations, games, physical activities, and races, will be demonstrated. For the beginning teacher or the veteran teacher ready for a “shot in the arm”, this course provides stimulating projects and activities that apply to the elementary day, middle school schedule, or the 90-minute secondary block. Master ways to use activity/lesson formats to develop flexibility in classroom activities. Learn, participate in, and observe the modeling of activities that pique motivational interest and involvement and add magic to instruction.

GEDU 686 Teaching the Skills of the 21st Century
3 credits
Break the mold of traditional teaching methods. Identify the most useful real-life skills that students need in order to be successful in life and on the job. Discuss what is relevant for students to know and be able to do.

GEDU 687 Teaching with the Standards
3 credits
Work with ten intrinsic motivators, building them into standards-based lessions that incorporate a variety of activities simultaneously.

GEDU 688 Achieving Student Outcomes through Cooperative Learning
3 credits
This course is for K-12 teachers who would like to use cooperative strategies appropriately in their classrooms. The course will emphasize cooperation as an alternative to competition and individualization for improving achievement, acquiring interpersonal skills and developing desirable interpersonal and interracial attitudes. Activities include cooperative simulations, learning, and using cooperative learning models, creation of lesson plans appropriate for the implementation and teaching of micro lessons.

GEDU 689 Coaching Skills for Successful Teaching
3 credits
This course provides coaching training for teachers. This meaningful course models strategies that help teachers share teaching ideas and encourage one another. Participants will be introduced to communication and coaching skills that enable them to communicate effectively with one another and reflect their own teaching. Colleagues will unlock the power of sharing ideas in a non-threatening environment through focused listening. Participants will learn to identify excellent teaching practices and use them to grow.

GEDU 691 Project T.E.A.C.H. Teacher Effectiveness and Classroom Handling
3 credits
Improving communication with students, parents and others; overcoming student resistances to learning; resolving discipline problems; helping students to motivate themselves and develop decision-making skills.

GEDU 693 Professional Refinements in Developing Effectiveness P.R.I.D.E.
3 credits
Questioning techniques to enhance the quality of learning; students’ and teachers’ non-verbal communication; rewards and penalties to reduce control and learning problems; dealing with classroom critical incidents.

GEDU 694 Teaching Through Learning Channels
3 credits
Understanding learning styles of all students; concept formation and learning processes; organizing the curriculum for learning goals and memory retention; alternative teaching strategies to meet student needs.

GEDU 697 Keys to Motivation
3 credits
Creating motivating environments for all students; understanding students who are unmotivated to learn or participate; grouping, using encouragement, and leadership strategies to enhance student motivation.

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