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  • SED ED 246: Practicum in Peer Leadership and Mentoring
    Provides advanced mentoring training and leadership experience for selected students who have completed ED 245 (Theory and Practice or Peer Counseling). Students will mentor the students serving as peer mentors in FY101 (First Year Seminar) and enrolled in ED245. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Teamwork/Collaboration.
    • Teamwork/Collaboration
  • SED ED 250: Community Service in an Urban Setting
    For students participating in volunteer community service; reflect on the experience, with academically- appropriate readings, periodic discussion guided by the instructor, and graded writing assignments. Volunteering in the Boston Public Schools.
  • SED ED 251: Community Service in an Urban Setting
    For students participating in volunteer community service; reflect on the experience, with academically- appropriate readings, periodic discussion guided by the instructor, and graded writing assignments. A1: Volunteering in the Boston Public Schools. Instructor: Ruth Shane. B1: Volunteering with Reach out and Read. Instructor: Katherine Sullivan
  • SED ED 341: Assess Yng Chld
  • SED ED 367: Comm Collab 1
  • SED ED 410: Social Context of Education
    How culture, race, language, poverty, social change, urban pressures, and rural isolation affect the work of schools and other educational institutions, based upon reading, discussion, field research, and extensive writing by students. SED ED 410 A1 and ED 412 A1 must be taken in the same semester or ED 410 B1 in the fall and ED 412 B1 in the spring. 2cr.
  • SED ED 412: Civic Context of Education
    Political and professional decision making in education in a democracy, emergent issues in educational policy, and the ethics of educational practice, based upon reading, discussion, planning exercises, and extensive writing by students. ED 410 A1 and ED 412 A1 must be taken in the same semester or ED 410 B1 in the fall and ED 412 B1 in the spring. 2cr.
  • SED ED 420: Adv Comm Collab
  • SED ED 455: Ec Fldex PREKK1
  • SED ED 456: Tch in Dvrs Set
  • SED ED 459: Ec Fldex PREKK2
  • SED ED 462: Capstone: PreK-K
    Prek-K specialists reflect on teaching and learning experiences throughout program; explore issues related to educational philosophies, public policy, leadership in the field, societal pressures affecting very young children and their families. Complete professional portfolio demonstrating evidence of meeting Wheelock College Education Standards. Open to seniors, usually in final semester. 1 cr.
  • SED ED 464: Sem Plc Ldr Ece
  • SED ED 465: Capstone Ee
  • SED ED 481: Capstone: Education Studies
    Construct and defend web-based program exit portfolio addressing the Wheelock Education Standards, and reflecting on experiences in the program. Seminar provides a collaborative space to reflect on experiences in the program, share artifacts and drafts of analytic/reflective essays. Selected educational policies are discussed. Taken in last semester of the Education Studies program. 1 cr.
  • SED ED 482: Capstone Ed Stu
    Construct and defend a web-based program exit portfolio addressing the Wheelock Education Standards, and reflecting on experiences in the program. The seminar provides a collaborative space to reflect on experiences in the program, share artifacts and drafts of analytic/reflective essays. Selected educational policies are discussed. Taken in the last semester of the Education Studies program. 2 cr.
  • SED ED 487: Elementary Education: Capstone
    Enables candidates to present and defend web-based program exit portfolios demonstrating their achievement of the Wheelock Education Standards and the ACEI standards. Prerequisite: Passage of the Massachusetts Literacy and Communication (Reading and Writing subtests), General Curriculum (Multiple subject and Math sub-tests), and Foundations of Reading Tests for Educator Licensure. 1 cr.
  • SED ED 502: Professional Teaching Seminar I: Analyzing Foundations of Teaching
    Introductory seminar analyzes important foundational teaching issues: varieties of excellent teaching, diverse philosophies of schools, curriculum complexities in middle and senior high schools, history of education for the 20th and 21st centuries, and the power of community - culture - school inter-relations. ED 502 A1 must be taken in the fall, and ED 503 A1 must be taken in the spring. 0 cr.
  • SED ED 503: Professional Teaching Seminar I: Analyzing Foundations of Teaching
    Introductory seminar analyzes important foundational teaching issues: varieties of excellent teaching, diverse philosophies of schools, curriculum complexities in middle and senior high schools, history of education for the 20th and 21st centuries, and the power of community - culture - school inter- relations. Prereq ED 502. 2 cr.
  • SED ED 505: Racial and Cultural Identities
    Introduces the critical study of race, culture, and identify. Explores theories to help students examine their own socialization and understanding of race, ethnicity, culture, and identity. Considers political, social, cultural, historical, economic, and power dynamics as a context for interpreting interpersonal and structural relationships. 3 cr.

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