TLED 738 - Leadership in Education • 3 hours
TLED 805 - Professional Development for Continuous Improvement of Teaching and Learning • 3 hours
TLED 772 - Understanding Diverse Student Populations • 3 hours
This course also provides opportunities for analysis of everyday situations and the impact of instructional models and practices on the teaching and learning processes. This analysis includes a focus on gender, ethnicity, race, religion, socio-economic status, and parents/family. In addition, teacher leaders learn to utilize the Social and Emotional Learning Standards to improve the learning environment. This course includes a 10 hour practicum experience during which theory is applied to practice. Candidates must complete their practicum requirements in schools with a diverse population.
TLED 771 - Data-Focused Assessment and Evaluation • 3 hours
achievement and school improvement. The teacher leadership candidates engage in the multiple techniques for gathering and analyzing data, evaluating the validity, and the methods for collaborative review. This course includes a 10 hour practicum experience during which theory is applied to practice. Candidates must complete their practicum requirements in schools with a diverse population.
TLED 795 - Building Collaborative Community Partnerships • 3 hours
TLED 773 - The Foundations of Reading • 3 hours
TLED 605 - The E.L.L Student in the K-12 Mainstream: Accommodating through Awareness • 3 hours
The tools are practical; include components that allow for feedback regarding the on-going assessment of the tools themselves, and are utilized by the teacher, the student, and by the student’s family who are viewed as an extension of the classroom-learning environment. This course reaches beyond general TESL strategies by providing accommodations so the learner can attain English while studying in the content areas at school with supportive measures at home. Accommodation through awareness of cultural differences & similarities is the foundational theme upon which the tools are built. The workings of this topic are applied universally to the daily encounters the mainstream teacher, and the E.L.L. student and the family have with the student’s English-language-learning. This explorative theme will be implemented also into the areas of assessment, instructional principles & practices, and resources as they apply to accommodating E.L.L. students in the K~12 mainstream. This course includes a 10 hour practicum experience during which theory is applied to practice. Candidates must complete their practicum requirements in schools with a diverse population.