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.

This colloq will consist of weekly meetings and preparation for working in the Mark?s Meadow Elementary School After School Program. Preparation of activities for Elementary School students in a Writing Club to include tips and tools to better their writing and expand their creative imagination.

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.

Focus on issues of social identity, social and cultural diversity, and societal manifestations of oppression. Draws on interdisciplinary perspectives of social identity development, social learning theory, and sociological analyses of power and privilege within broad social contexts. (Gen.Ed. I, U)

An introduction to college teaching via exposure to theories of student learning and the opportunity to practice a variety of teaching techniques. The goal of this discussion/seminar is to give students a practical grounding in teaching effectiveness that will enhance both their future academic career and their current teaching assignments at the University of Massachusetts.

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