M.A. Education with Teacher Preparation

Sample Courses

Children with Special Gifts and Needs
This course addresses several special needs areas including: gifted education, special education and diverse ethnic and cultural issues. Class participants consider curricular designs for meeting diverse students’ needs.

Educational Foundations
This course surveys the social, philosophic and historical traditions that have shaped American education. Issues of diversity and inequality are explored, as are the social, political and moral dimensions of classrooms, teaching and schools.

Elementary Methods: Mathematics I
The emphasis is on how people think mathematically in schools and in society. Students focus on mathematics as a holistic cultural experience and design realistic integrated curricula in which mathematics can serve an essential role.

Human Development
Effective instruction is dependent upon teachers' knowledge of the students they teach. This course investigates:

• Specific theorists and themes in human development

• Possibilities for individual change

• Complexities of an individual's life at any given time

• Influences of environment, culture and schooling

Students explore development from diverse schools of thought — behavioral, psychoanalytic, social, contextual and cognitive theories — and from several dimensions of experience, including physical, emotional, social, moral, cognitive, aesthetic and spiritual.