7 courses with the subject EDLE, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
EDLE 927Advanced Teaching Strategies
Designed to help educators become more skilled and versatile in their application of teaching strategies, including guided discovery, discussion formats, questioning skills, inquiry training, cooperative groupings, and individualized formats. Students design a comparative study of teaching strategies, including lesson materials and evaluation instruments, to be conducted in a current or future classroom setting, depending on each student's circumstances. The course analyzes research findings, comparative research designs, and the relationship between teaching strategies and learning styles.
EDLE 938Technological Applications for School Leaders
Covers the essentials of technology needed to facilitate school-based leadership. Emphasizes technology skills required for supervision of instruction in technology-enhanced classrooms. Approaches to integrating technology into the development of curriculum and to fostering the professional development of staff in the area of technology are included. Ways to strengthen school- home relationships through distance learning and instruction-driven web sites are also explored. Students enhance their technological skills while creating a context for working with teachers and instructional technology specialists within K-12 learning environments.
An examination of the financial relationship between and among the five major systems of a school - curriculum, infrastructure, supervision, evaluation, and professional development. Students develop an understanding of the theoretical foundations of education, the laws and regulations pertaining to school finance, grant development and management, the interrelationship of education and municipal financing, and the development of a school-based financial plan.
Offers participants the opportunity to learn the interactions between public education and the law stressing the notion of Preventive Law. Topics covered may include: employment of public school employees; curriculum, religion and schools; freedom of expression; discrimination and harassment; special education; discipline; and the implications of current federal and state statutes.
EDLE 970Curriculum Design, Practice and Assessment
Provides students with a curriculum update in the major subjects of schooling with special emphasis on student assessment, teaching strategies, learning styles and interdisciplinary curriculum development. Students create a model for designing, implementing, and evaluating curriculum in a chosen discipline. Curriculum concepts are integrated in ways which are meaningful to various cultural groups and minorities. Factors which determine the success of curriculum change, including a needs assessment, will be considered.
Examines school organizations and cultures; forms of school governance; the change process; and the concept of collaboration among administrator, teacher, parent and community leaders as a means of bringing about more effective schools. Proposals for re-conceptualizing schools are reviewed. This course includes a field-based training component.
Understanding and supporting the development of teachers is a major emphasis of this course. Students acquire interpersonal and technical skills to assist them in working with people in their roles as supervisors, consultants, and advisors, and in improving the quality of instruction in schools. New developments in the field of supervision, (e.g., mentoring, group clinical supervision, beginning teacher induction programs, study groups); issues related to supervising in schools, (e.g., working with a multicultural and multi-ethnic staff), and recent supervision research are examined. This course includes a field-based training component. ~ 54 ~
