Courses

ED 554 Elementary Curriculum & Methods: Reading, Writing & Anguage Arts   3.0 Credit(s)
This course focuses on the study of literacy pedagogy for elementary education candidates. In this course reading comprehension and written composition is examined as a meaning-making process dependent on the reader/writer, the text/genre, the task, and the sociocultural context. Candidates learn evidence-based approaches to reading comprehension, vocabulary, and writing instruction including strategies to support students in comprehending, interpreting, analyzing, evaluating, and composing text across genres including literary texts, informational texts, poetry, and persuasive texts. Candidates learn the role of knowledge building, cognitive strategies, vocabulary knowledge, text structure, and motivation in fostering deep comprehension and strategic and meaningful composition of texts. Candidates apply skills to authentic contexts as they acquire core understandings about literacy pedagogy.
Offered: Fall & Summer Semesters All Years

ED 555 ELEM CURRIC & METHODS: SOC STUD,HLTH,PE   3.0 Credit(s)
Examines social studies and health/physical education integration in elementary grades. Focuses on teaching social studies through an inquiry arc across social studies disciplines. Special attention is on lesson and unit planning and skill development in the subject areas. An emphasis will be placed on integrating literacy into rigorous and relevant content instruction that aligns to the Universal Design for Learning framework and state and national content standards.
Offered: Fall Semester All Years

ED 556 ELEMENTARY METHODS SCIENCE   3.0 Credit(s)
Candidates learn the basic concepts, scope, and sequence of instruction and current methodology in elementary science. Attention is given to lesson and unit planning/skill development utilizing application of current research in effective science instruction. Emphasis is on the student as a learner and the role of the teacher as facilitator of science investigation. This course addresses ACEI standards for science.
Offered: Spring & Summer 2 All Years

ED 560 DSAP SEMINAR II   3.0 Credit(s)
This seminar accompanying DSAP teaching is an integral component of the DSAP experience. Weekly sessions are designed to address salient issues related to the teaching-learning processes and to offer strategies to meet student learning objectives. Issues such as curriculum and instructional planning, teaching methods, evaluation and self-assessment are some of the topics explored both through activities and classroom discussion. The seminar format is designed to respond to the immediate needs of student teachers as they progress through the semester, and to address the competencies of the SHU Conceptual Frameworks and the aligned competencies of the Connecticut Common Core of Teaching. Teachers will complete self- assessments of their progress toward the end of improving their teaching.
Offered: Fall & Spring Semesters All Years

ED 561 SOCIAL JUSTICE PEDAGOGIES   3.0 Credit(s)
Teachers have an opportunity and responsibility to teach students through pedagogies that sustain cultures and develop their students' advocacy for examining issues of social justice and working towards change. This course develops teacher practices of culturally sustaining pedagogies that promote social justice and explores ways to integrate them into academic content area curricula that reduce barriers within and between disciplines. Assignments require students to develop and teach content-based lessons at the intersection of culture and social justice linked to a clinical experience situated in city schools.
Offered: Fall & Spring Semesters All Years

ED 563 STUDENT TEACHING: SECONDARY   6.0 Credit(s)
Student teaching field experience in secondary education, in conjunction with a weekly student teaching seminar, is the culminating experience of the certification program. Field experience addresses Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP) standards. The application for field placement is submitted to the Director of Clinical Experiences the semester prior to the semester in which the candidate is placed. Student teaching is conducted only in the fall and spring semesters. A student teaching fee is assessed.
Offered: Fall & Spring Semesters All Years

ED 565 CREATING POSITIVE ELEM CLASSRM ENVIRON   3.0 Credit(s)
This course explores teaching strategies for managing an elementary classroom and the standards found in Connecticut's Common Core of Teaching that pertain to classroom management. Candidates learn practical approaches for the establishment of procedures and routines. This course is designed for teachers and candidates in training who are interested in effective classroom management and the promotion of a safe, orderly, and inviting place in which to teach and learn. The course will initially focus on creating a positive learning environment where negative, distracting behaviors are less likely to occur. Candidates will gain the insight, knowledge, and skills that will enable them to cope with classroom disruptions and will incorporate a variety of techniques that are appropriate for the elementary level. Candidates will explore methods and systems of management that will allow them to move beyond traditional rewards, punishments, bribes, and threats. This course is offered at the Griswold Campus as a hybrid course with a combination of face-to-face and online classes.
Offered: Summer 2 Semester All Years

ED 566 CREATING POS SECONDARY CLASSRM ENVIRON   3.0 Credit(s)
This course explores teaching strategies for managing a secondary classroom and the standards found in Connecticut's Common Core of Teaching that pertain to classroom management. Candidates learn practical approaches for the establishment of procedures and routines. This course is designed for teachers and candidates in training who are interested in effective classroom management and the promotion of a safe, orderly, and inviting place in which to teach and learn. The course will initially focus on creating a positive learning environment where negative, distracting behaviors are less likely to occur. Candidates will gain the insight, knowledge, and skills that will enable them to cope with classroom disruptions and will incorporate a variety of techniques that are appropriate for the secondary level. Candidates will explore methods and systems of management that will allow them to move beyond traditional rewards, punishments, bribes, and threats.
Offered: Summer 2 Semester All Years

ED 567 INTRODUCTION TO STEM EDUCATION   3.0 Credit(s)
Candidates will learn the basic concepts, scope and sequence of instruction, and current methodologies utilized in the teaching of elementary science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Careful consideration is given to recent development in STE(A)M and their implications for work with children. Workshops utilizing STE(A)M materials and techniques are included. Particular attention will be given to the candidate as learner as prospective educators develop lessons and unit planning skills utilizing the application of current research in effective STE(A)M instruction. Emphasis will be placed upon using hands on inquiry based lesson designs and problem based learning assignments utilizing both virtual and hands on materials.
Offered: Fall & Summer 2 All Years

ED 568 EDUCATION OF THE GIFTED   3.0 Credit(s)
This course examines the identification, educational, and programming issues as well as the social and emotional needs of gifted students. Emphasis is on current successful models of educating gifted students. Candidates explore the changing conceptions of gifted behaviors and investigate issues concerning minority populations and populations with disabilities.
Offered: Late Spring & Summer Semesters All Years

ED 569 INTRODUCTION TO EXCEPTIONALITIES   3.0 Credit(s)
Focuses on identification of students with exceptional needs as well as methods of meeting their educational needs in regular and special classroom settings. Exceptionalities studied include all areas identified by national and state mandates.
Offered: Fall, Spring & Summer 2 Sems All Years

ED 571 STORY TELLING SEMINAR   3.0 Credit(s)
This course is designed to give participants the opportunity to understand the power and importance of story as an educational tool. Candidates encounter a wide variety of stories from many different cultures, learn to identify resources for finding stories, develop skills in telling stories with ease and enthusiasm, and learn to evaluate the qualities that make stories age-appropriate for various grade levels. Participants are encouraged to develop their own personal style of storytelling through class exercises and listening to professional storytellers in person and on media. Candidates also explore ways to integrate storytelling into many areas of curriculum and to aid children in developing their own storytelling ability.
Offered: Spring & Summer 1 All Years

ED 578 MEDIA, TECHNOLOGY, & LEARNING   3.0 Credit(s)
This course examines how media and technology relate to how we learn, communicate and create. Participants critically analyze the use of media and technology for teaching and learning in schools across a wide range of applications from creative digital tools, popular culture texts, and information sources, to assistive technologies, learning management systems, and generative AI. Participants expand and reflect upon their own use of media and technology for learning, communication, professional productivity, and teaching. Using key principles of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) and the National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE), participants design and deliver learning experiences using a variety of media and technology, to learn with and about. Participants consider legal, ethical and safety issues regarding media and technology use for teaching, learning and communication in schools and beyond. A laptop with Internet access is require
Offered: All Semesters All Years

ED 584 STUDENT TEACHING SEMINAR: GENERAL SCI.   6.0 Credit(s)
The student teaching clinical experience in secondary general science, in conjunction with a weekly student teaching seminar, is the culminating experience of the certification program. The application for a clinical placement is submitted to the Director of Clinical Practice the semester prior to the semester in which the candidate is placed. Student teaching is conducted only in the fall and spring semesters. A student teaching fee is assessed.
Offered: Fall & Spring Semesters All Years

ED 589 STUDENT TEACHING SEMINAR: ELEMENTARY   6.0 Credit(s)
The student teaching clinical experience in elementary education, in conjunction with a weekly student teaching seminar, is the culminating experience of the certification program. The application for a clinical placement is submitted to the Director of Clinical Practice the semester prior to the semester in which the candidate is placed. Student teaching is conducted only in the fall and spring semesters. A student teaching fee is assessed.
Offered: Fall & Spring Semesters All Years