Graduate M.A.T. Syllabi [Trad.]
Master of Arts in Teaching [Traditional]: Professional Education Syllabi
ECS542 – Teaching Math to Children with LBD (Credit: 3 semester hours) Provides strategies for teaching math to children with LBD in a way that promotes student success and uses assessment as a tool for understanding students’ thinking about math concepts.
ECS550 – Introduction to Special Education (Credit: 3 semester hours) Introduces the field of special education and examines the development of this field, enabling an understanding of the developmental and learning characteristics of students with all types of exceptionalities. This course emphasizes healthy parent and school relations through effective communication; state and federal regulations impacting services for special needs children; and litigation, legislation, regulation, and advocacy issues impacting educational and related services for individuals with academic and/or physical disabilities.
ECS570 – Methods and Strategies in Behavior Management (Credit: 3 semester hours) Presents techniques in academic behavior management for special needs students, including the CHAMPs Program, and other social skills programs.
ECS575 – Methods & Strategies for Teaching an Academic Curriculum (Credit: 3 semester hours) This course addresses the principles of curriculum construction, program development and evaluation, classroom organization, instructional approaches, strategies and materials for teaching an academic curriculum to students with learning and behavior disorders. Best practices that encompass both diagnosis and intervention will be discussed.
ECS680 – Instruction & Assessment Methods (Credit: 3 semester) Provides contexts in which students develop, administer, analyze, interpret, and evaluate formal and informal assessment procedures for planning and implementing a variety of instructional interventions across the lifespan or students with learning disabilities, behavior disorders, and mild mental disabilities. Tests include the Woodcock-Johnson, Peabody Individual Achievement Test, KeyMath Diagnostic, Woodcock Reading Inventory, Oral and Written Language (OWL), DAB, and TOAL
ECS685 – Assistive/Adaptive Technology (Credit: 2 semester hours) Explores the ways technology can be used to enhance the education of students with disabilities. Students will learn to develop adaptive technology for instruction and understand the software programs available for special needs students. Includes a computer lab.
ECS695 – Prescriptive Teaching (Credit: 3 semester) Explores ways to apply assessment techniques and the methods and materials used to individualize instruction in language, reading, writing, and math.
EDU510 – Integrated Arts and Creative Movement (Credit: 4 semester hours) Provides opportunities to learn and practice the integration of art, music and physical activities in the elementary classroom.
EDU 513 – Foundations of Education (Credit: 3 semester hours) – Provides an introductory understanding of the historical, philosophical, and social foundations of schools; major litigation and policy; emergence of teaching as a profession; governance and reform in Kentucky schools; family structures and circumstances and their impact on learning, society, and education; and expectations for teachers (skills, knowledge, and ethical behavior). (Minimum of 10 clock hours of Field Experiences).
EDU 514 – Classroom Management (Credit: 3 semester hours) – Examines factors in making classroom a system for success. Focuses on cognitive and behavioral methods to decrease and redirect inappropriate behavior and manage conflict and anger. Techniques for promoting positive self-esteem, self-discipline, personal responsibility, and effective interpersonal communication skills will improve the classroom climate and increase academic performance. (Minimum of 10 clock hours of Field Experiences).
EDU 520 – Assessment for Teaching and Learning (Credit: 3 semester hours) – Offers an understanding of types of assessment with an emphasis on state required assessments of student learning; builds skills in the development of classroom assessments that assist students’ success on required tests and in the interpretation of test/assessment results to promote student success.
EDU530 – Literature for Children (Credit: 3 semester hours) Provides an introduction to children’s literature, both historical and contemporary. Major genres, authors, illustrators and trends in children’s literature are studied. Focus is on print and non-print materials for use with children from preschool through grade 5, on presentation strategies, and on activities that extend the reading transaction.
EDU531 – Literature for Young Adults (Credit: 3 semester hours) – Introduces literature written for adolescent and young adult audiences. Included in the course is a discussion of print and non-print materials appropriate for middle and high school students.
EDU532 – Mathematics Methods in the Elementary School (Credit: 3 semester hours) Studies the structure and concepts of teaching of mathematics including instructional design, teaching strategies/methods, assessment of students’ learning, modification of instruction based upon data from student assessments, materials, textbooks, and use of state/district curriculum materials. Incorporates relevant assignments/experiences for master’s level candidates. A portion of the course is taught in an elementary school and includes mini-teaching experiences.
EDU 547 –Education Capstone Seminar (Credit: 3 semester hours) – Scheduled in conjunction with the student teaching seminar, this course provides for the completion and defense of the professional teaching portfolio documenting knowledge, skills and dispositions identified by the university and the Kentucky Education Professional Standards Board.
EDU 560 – Curriculum and Methods in the Middle and High School (Credit: 3 semester hours) – Examines curriculum materials including state and district curriculum guides, instructional planning (using a modified KTIP planning instrument), assessment usage to promote student learning, and instructional strategies. Students work with a certified practicing teacher in their academic content area to build resource files and to teach mini-lessons.
EDU577 – Learning & Development through the Lifespan (Credit: 3 semester hours) – Examines learning and developmental processes through the lifespan. Application of theories, concepts, and patterns of learning and development are assisted by guided observations in the three levels of school classrooms, by examining personal experiences and future projections of one’s own lifespan learning and development. (Minimum of 15 clock hours of Field Experiences).
EDU579 – Multimedia Applications for Teaching and Learning (Credit: 3 semester hours) – Provides an introduction to the use of a variety of multimedia technologies. Emphasis is on the integration of multimedia into the curriculum as teaching and learning strategy. Practical experience with multimedia is in a laboratory setting. (Minimum of 10 clock hours of field experiences).
EDU 585 – Inclusive Classroom (Credit: 3 semester hours) – Acquaints the student with the many types of exceptional children that may be served in the regular classroom. Discusses instructional strategies and classroom management needed for the inclusion of exceptional children, such as the mentally handicapped, the gifted, and the neurologically, visually, hearing, and speech impaired. (Minimum of 15 clock hours of Field Experiences).
EDU 672 – Student Teaching (Credit: 9 semester hours) – Provides directed experiences in observation, participation, and teaching at the elementary school level, middle school level, or high school level. Includes a weekly seminar.
EDR510 – Reading Theories and Practices in P-12 (Credit: 3 semester hours) Studies the development of reading skills for children in grades P-12. Designed exclusively for candidates in the Alternative LBD program.
EDR511 – Language Arts Theories and Practices (Credit: 3 semester hours) Examines developmental milestones in writing and explores ways to build language arts instruction based on students’ abilities.
EDR515 – Reading Theories and Practices (Credit: 3 semester) Studies the developmental milestones in reading, literate classroom environments, reading processes, reading assessment, and teaching for continuous reading progress.
EDR531 – Literature for Young Adults (Credit: 3 semester hours). Introduces literature written for adolescent and young adult audiences. Included in the course is a discussion of print and non-print materials appropriate for middle and high school students.
EDR556 – Developmental Reading in the Middle and High School (Credit: 3 semester hours). Studies the development of reading skills in the content areas, interpretation of formal and informal assessments, readability formulas, instruction in study skills, and diagnostic teaching of students with reading difficulties.
ESC625 – Science in the Elementary School (Credit: 3 hours) -Includes the structure, concepts and modern methods involved in teaching elementary school science, including use of state/district curriculum materials. The scientific method and simple laboratory procedures will be applied.