Secondary Education
EDUC 4023 (3-5). Differentiating Instruction in Diverse Secondary Classrooms. Emphasizes schools and teaching and learning. Focuses on teaching culturally and linguistically diverse secondary school students, special education students, and differentiation. Includes hands-on experiences in secondary school settings. Prereq., admission to the secondary or K–12 music teacher education program. Credit not granted for this course and EDUC 4351. Formerly EDUC 3023.
EDUC 4050-3. Knowing and Learning in Mathematics and Science. Explores essential questions relevant to teaching and learning mathematics and science. This course expands the student’s understanding of current theories of learning and conceptual development. Students examine their own assumptions about learning. They critically examine the needs of a diverse student population in the classroom.
EDUC 4060-3. Classroom Interactions. Explores how to use curriculum and technology to build interrelationships among teachers and students. Students design and implement instructional activities informed by what it means to know and learn mathematics and science, and then evaluate the outcomes of those activities on the basis of classroom artifacts. Students examine how content and pedagogy combine to make effective teaching. Same as EDUC 5060.
EDUC 4112-3. Educational Psychology and Adolescent Development. Analyzes fundamental psychological concepts underlying classroom instruction, as well as adolescent growth and development. Prereq., completion of 30 hours of course work. Same as PSYC 4114.
EDUC 4122 (2-3). Principles and Methods of Secondary Education. For middle/junior high through senior high school levels. Presents and discusses issues in secondary school curriculum, instruction, and classroom management. Examines, analyzes, and evaluates a variety of teaching strategies, their effectiveness for students, and teacher dispositions to facilitate learning. Includes in-school experience. Restricted to students admitted to the secondary teacher education program.
EDUC 4232-3. Language and Literacy across the Curriculum. Explores the relationship between language and learning with the goal of developing teaching practices that engage students in using language as a tool for understanding and constructing meaning across the curriculum. Explores how language/literacy take on different forms and functions in different social contexts and academic disciplines. Restricted to students admitted to the secondary teacher education program. Same as EDUC 5235.
EDUC 4342-3. Composition for Teachers. Prepares beginning teachers to teach composition in the public schools according to the Colorado P12 Academic Standards. Cultivates a repertoire of skills, assessment techniques, and perspectives to successfully engage secondary students, then move them into writing proficiency. Develops proficient knowledge of strategies, planning practices, and assessment techniques to ensure student learning in a standards-based curriculum. Restricted to students admitted to the secondary English teacher education program. Same as EDUC 5345.
