This course will provide students with a foundation in counseling skills. We will focus on counseling children in schools and on integrating theory and practice. Classes will consist of lectures, discussions, demonstrations, role plays, small-group activities, and skill practice in large and small groups. Students will also record themselves using counseling skills and self-evaluate these clips.

This curriculum development workshop identifies principles that will guide language educators in creating world and second language curricula using sociocultural theories, action research, critical discourse pragmatics, and multimodalities.

Students review classic research manuscripts in counseling/school psychology, review current manuscripts and identify trends and issues, evaluate quality of research designs, develop research proposals related to areas of special interest, conduct pilot research studies under faculty mentorship related to areas of special interest.

Students review classic research manuscripts in counseling/school psychology, review current manuscripts and identify trends and issues, evaluate quality of research designs, develop research proposals related to areas of special interest, conduct pilot research studies under faculty mentorship related to areas of special interest.

Current theory and research on children's development of oral and written language and its implications for reading, writing and language instruction.

This course introduces graduate students, in Social Justice Education (SJE) and other programs of study inside and outside the College of Education, to overall concepts of SJE as well as awareness and knowledge about several specific manifestations of systemic, institutional, interpersonal forms of oppression within systems of advantage based on social group categories such as age, race, ability, and gender. The course also examines some of the ways people and social groups have confronted, resisted, and continue to resist and challenge oppression individually and collectively.

This course examines the political, philosophical, and pedagogical foundations of multicultural education through various approaches to knowledge construction and production that shape from education institutions to teaching culturally and linguistically diverse student populations. The course presents perspectives on issues of access and provision of high quality public education particularly for students in underserved communities (Latinos in the U.S./Indigenous peoples in the Americas).

This advanced research methods course will help students develop important knowledge and skills needed to conduct scientific survey research, and to understand and criticall evaluate survey-based research.

Course uses a constructivist approach to explore critical topics and methods in education that are directly linked to a practicum experience. Topics include: focused classroom and student observations; classroom management; Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks; lesson planning and implementation; assessment practices; special education; and instructional technology.

Examines the history and philosophy as well as purposes and characteristics of mixed methods research, types of research problems addressed, major mixed methods designs, data collection, and analysis strategies.