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A comprehensive study of learning and teaching theories with emphasis upon recent literature and of methods and techniques utilized to facilitate the understanding of human performance.

A study of secondary curriculum from an historical perspective followed by discussions of curriculum from viewpoints of the different stakeholders, and of current curricular issues.

Prerequisite: Admission to M.Ed. This course will be required by all of the M.Ed. programs in the College of Education. It will focus on the interdependence of factors that affect student learning, both inside and outside the classroom, and will address the following questions: What is school improvement? What are its history, philosophy, and political ramification? What are school improvement plans, and how can they be improved? What are the roles of faculty in school improvement? What are the common factors in schools that have effected significant change?

Prerequisite: EDFS 6224. This course is designed to prepare teachers to identify their schools’ demographics; analyze their schools’ improvement process and its impact on subsets of the student population; identify current school problems relating to diversity; and select one area of interest for which to create an individual research plan.

Prerequisite: EDFS 6225. A survey of inquiry models and paradigms relevant to the study of school improvement efforts. Includes analyses of assumptions fundamental to differing perspectives with an emphasis upon change theory and dynamics.

Prerequisite: EDFS 6226. A study of the fundamentals of educational research with an emphasis on development of a research proposal to study the effectiveness of a school improvement initiative.

This course will serve as a culmination of the school improvement research project within the teacher’s major field of study with an emphasis on various quantitative and qualitative ways of analyzing and disseminating data collected as a part of a school improvement project.

Graduate-level field experience in selected classrooms or in exemplary educational programs. Requires approval by the M.A.T. Coordinator.

Prerequisites: Completion of M.Ed. Core. Designed to promote accomplished teaching through systematic inquiry into practice, reflection on practice, and collaboration with others in meeting learners’ needs.