Courses

• SED LS 738: Clinical Assessment of Reading and Writing, Practicum Part 2
  Practical experience teaching students who struggle in learning to read and write. Each participant is paired with a school-aged student enrolled in the School of Education's Donald D. Durrell Reading & Writing Clinic. Students administer assessments and use the outcomes to plan and implement instruction. 4cr, Summer II
• SED LS 750: Cognitive Development and Language
  Various philosophical and research positions exist concerning the relation between cognition and language, including cognitive interactionism (Piaget), social interactionism (Vygotsky), innateness (Chomsky), linguistic relativity (Whorf), information processing (MacWhinney), and theory (Gopnick). These positions are discussed, compared, and assessed in light of research findings bearing on different topics (e.g., word learning, theory of mind). Students are able to apply course material to a related topic of their choice. 4cr, 2nd sem.
• SED LS 790: Seminar in Literacy Assessment: Research/Theory/Practice
  Intra/interdisciplinary review of theory and research related to literacy and language. Exploration of implications for assessment in instructional and service settings. 4cr, 2nd sem.
• SED LS 792: Teaching Reading and Writing in the Content Areas
  Exploration of current theory and research regarding reading processes in content disciplines as well as ways in which literacy instruction can be integrated into content disciplines to improve text comprehension, learning from text, and informational writing across grade levels. 4cr, 1st sem.
• SED LW 736: Teaching Writing in Elementary, Middle, and Secondary Schools
  Study of research and theory that informs an understanding of the writing process, the development of writing abilities, and writing instruction and assessment. Application of the literature to classroom practice at the elementary, middle and secondary school levels. 4cr, 1st sem.
• SED LW 781: Processes of Writing
  Investigation of the theory and research related to writing. Exploration of implications for assessment, instructional design, and educational planning. 4cr, 1st sem, alternate years
• SED ME 360: Mathematics for Teaching: Algebra
  Revisits school algebra from an advanced perspective, with emphasis on multiple representations, making generalizations, and justifications. Topics include variables, patterns, functions, and linear algebra. Attention to contemporary issues in curriculum, learning, teaching, technology, and other tools are woven throughout. 4cr, either sem.
• SED ME 363: Problem Solving in Mathematics
  Explores big ideas in mathematics through solving sets of challenging problems and connects to issues in teaching and learning. Topics include: research on problem solving, problem design, and implications of a problem-solving approach in school mathematics. 4cr, 2nd sem.
• SED ME 503: Mathematical Reasoning in the Elementary Grades: Number Systems
  This four-credit course is a prerequisite for ME 504. It is required for graduate students majoring in elementary education who are preparing to become teachers of children in kindergarten through grade five. This course focuses on topics in number systems and operations with an emphasis on number, operations, mental mathematics, proportionality, number theory, and probability. Students explore the mathematics from the perspective of a student and a teacher. The emphasis is on making sense of key ideas of number and operations and on exploring how students? understanding of these topics emerge and develop. 4cr, 1st sem.
• SED ME 504: Mathematical Reasoning in the Elementary Grades: Algebra, Geometry, & Statistics
  This course is required for graduate students majoring in elementary education who are preparing to become teachers of children in kindergarten through grade five. This course focuses on topics in algebra, geometry, measurement and statistics. Students explore mathematics form the perspective of student and teacher. The emphasis is on making sense of key ideas in algebra and geometry and on exploring how student's understanding of these topics emerge and develop. 4cr, 2nd sem.
• SED ME 506: Student-Teaching Half Practicum: Mathematics, 5-8
  Minimum 150 hours required, Open only to matriculated graduate students who have completed pre- requisites. For description, see SED ME507. 4cr, 2nd sem.
• SED ME 507: Student-Teaching Practicum: Mathematics, 5-8
  Open only to matriculated graduate students who have completed pre-requisites. Student teaching: a full- time experience in a selected school under joint supervision of a cooperating teacher and a University representative. Minimum 300 hours. 8cr, 2nd sem.
• SED ME 508: Student-Teaching Practicum: Mathematics, 8-12
  Open only to matriculated graduate students who have completed pre-requisites. Student teaching: a full- time experience in a selected secondary school under joint supervision of a cooperating teacher and a University representative. Minimum 300 hours required. 8cr, 2nd sem.
• SED ME 509: Student-Teaching Half Practicum: Mathematics, 8-12
  Minimum 150 hours required. Open only to matriculated graduate students who have completed pre- requisites. For description, see SED ME 508. 4cr, 2nd sem.
• SED ME 525: Assessment in Mathematics
  This course introduced pre-service and in-service mathematics teachers to the theory and practice of assessment in mathematics. This course prepares teachers to apply research-supported assessment techniques in their classrooms. Discussion about important issues in assessment around mathematics will be encouraged. 2 cr, 2nd Sem, Summer.
• SED ME 530: Equitable Pedagogies in STEM Education
  This course examines the teaching and learning of mathematics and science in urban schools. Considers how issues of race, gender, class, language and culture affect the nature of mathematics and science education in schools. Successful methodologies and projects for teaching algebra to diverse populations are explored. 2cr, either sem.
• SED ME 546: Methods of Teaching Mathematics: Middle School
  Analysis of research on strategies, activities, assessment, and materials for teaching mathematical concepts and skills, grades 5-8. Focus on structures and models of algebraic and geometric concepts and applications. 4cr, 1st sem.
• SED ME 547: Methods of Teaching Mathematics: High School
  Analysis of research on strategies, activities, and materials for teaching mathematical concepts and skills, grades 8-12. Concepts from geometry, higher algebra, probability and statistics, trigonometry, and calculus. 4cr, 1st sem.
• SED ME 551: Mathematics for Special Needs Students
  Examines programs for students in grades K-12 at both ends of the achievement spectrum in mathematics: the gifted student and the student with learning disabilities. Diagnostic techniques, alternative curricula, appropriate instructional strategies, and classroom organization techniques for each type of student. 4cr, either sem.
• SED ME 558: Mathematics Curriculum: Program Issues, Trends
  Analysis of historical, mathematical, and psychological factors influencing pre-K-12 mathematics curricula. Focuses on national and international standards, research on learning and teaching with understanding, and integrated curricula. 4cr, 1st sem.

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