This colloq serves as a service learning and community engagement experience where students who are planning to become K-12 teachers have opportunities to understand the conditions that culturally and linguistically diverse students need to overcome in order to learn and succeed in school.

Students will explore the use of dynamic technological tools for teaching and learning mathematics. In addition to developing facility with some of these tools, students will explore issues of visualization, simulation, and animation and their impacts on learning. The course will incorporate critical evaluation of current literature, research, and studies in curriculum and teaching of secondary school mathematics and is relevant to practitioners and researchers.

Approaches to the teaching of reading and language arts in the elementary schools; innovations in methods and materials demonstrated and discussed.

Role of the college and university in American society, past and present. Meaning of a college education at various periods in American life.

This course is designed to provide beginning graduate students in education and related fields with an understanding of the basic statistical techniques necessary for conducting research. Prerequisite: Educ 555.

Introduction to the assumptions, language, logic, and methods of qualitative inquiry in educational settings. Students are required to conduct a small-scale qualitative research project.

Description not available at this time