printer friendly pageEDUC 101: Introduction to Teaching and Learning
This course is designed to help undergraduates explore career interests in education; it is the core course for the Undergraduate Minor in Education, and fulfills requirements for Honors in Education. The course considers the philosophy, history, politics, professional practice and social structures of teaching in the United States. Students will read and discuss teaching theory and research, participate in learning activities and visit school teaching sites, as well as examine and analyze artifacts and models of teaching.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Wolf, J. (PI)
EDUC 102: Examining Social Structures, Power, and Educational Access
Goal is to prepare Education and Youth Development fellows for their work with adolescents in the Haas Center's pre-college summer programs and to define their role in addressing educational inequities in the summer programs and beyond.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2-3
| Repeatable
10 times
(up to 30 units total)
Instructors:
Garcia, P. (PI)
;
Kim, S. (PI)
EDUC 103A: Tutoring: Seeing a Child through Literacy (EDUC 203A)
Experience tutoring grade school readers in a low income community near Stanford under supervision. Training in tutoring; the role of instruction in developing literacy; challenges facing low income students and those whose first language is not English. How to see school and print through the eyes of a child. Ravenswood Reads tutors encouraged to enroll. Service Learning Course (certified by Haas Center). May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-4
| Repeatable
10 times
(up to 40 units total)
Instructors:
Scott, R. (PI)
EDUC 103B: Race, Ethnicity, and Linguistic Diversity in Classrooms: Sociocultural Theory and Practices (AFRICAAM 106, CSRE 103B, EDUC 337)
Focus is on classrooms with students from diverse racial, ethnic and linguistic backgrounds. Studies, writing, and media representation of urban and diverse school settings; implications for transforming teaching and learning. Issues related to developing teachers with attitudes, dispositions, and skills necessary to teach diverse students.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP
EDUC 104: Introduction to the Profession of Teaching
This course explores the profession of teaching through an internship in a local elementary or high school classroom. Students will observe and assist instruction for four hours per week. In class, students will read, discuss, and respond to theory and research related to teaching. The course is open to all undergraduates with an interest in the teaching profession; and it may be especially useful for students who are considering entering the profession of teaching and wish to spend time in a classroom. No prior experience in teaching is required.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Murdock-Perriera, L. (PI)
EDUC 106: Interactive Media in Education
Workshop.
Last offered: Winter 2008
EDUC 107: Education and Inequality: Big Data for Large-Scale Problems (EDUC 207, SOC 107E, SOC 205)
In this course, students will use data from the Stanford Education Data Archive (SEDA) to study the patterns, causes, consequences, and remedies of educational inequality in the US. SEDA is based on 200 million test score records, administrative data, and census data from every public school, school district, and community in the US. The course will include lectures, discussion, and small group research projects using SEDA and other data.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
EDUC 109: Educational Issues in Contemporary China (EDUC 309)
Reforms such as the decentralization of school finance, emergence of private schools, expansion of higher education, and reframing of educational policy to focus on issues of quality. Have these reforms exacerbated educational inequality.
EDUC 110: Sociology of Education: The Social Organization of Schools (EDUC 310, SOC 132, SOC 332)
Seminar. Key sociological theories and empirical studies of the links between education and its role in modern society, focusing on frameworks that deal with sources of educational change, the organizational context of schooling, the impact of schooling on social stratification, and the relationships between the educational system and other social institutions such as families, neighborhoods, and the economy.
Last offered: Spring 2013
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
EDUC 111: The Young Adult Novel: A Literature For and About Adolescents
For undergraduates considering teaching or working with adolescents, and for those planning to apply to the coterminal program in the Stanford Teacher Education program (STEP). Students work together to define the genre of young adult novels. What they reveal about adolescence in America. How to read and teach young adult literature.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Wolf, J. (PI)
Filter Results: