printer friendly pageEDUC 285B: Boundary Crossing at Work: Designing for Learning with Differences in Mind
For STEP Secondary teacher candidates. Needs of exceptional learners, identification of learning differences and disabilities, and adaptations in the regular inclusion classroom. Legal requirements of special education, testing procedures, development of individualized education plans, and support systems and services. Students follow a special needs learner to understand diagnosis, student needs, and types of services.
Last offered: Spring 2023
EDUC 285C: Dis/ability and Access in the Elementary Classroom
For STEP Elementary teacher candidates. Needs of exceptional learners, identification of learning differences and disabilities, and adaptations in the regular inclusion classroom. Legal requirements of special education, testing procedures, development of individualized education plans, and support systems and services. Students follow a special needs learner to understand diagnosis, student needs, and types of services.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2
EDUC 285D: Dis/ability and Access in the Elementary Classroom
For STEP elementary teacher candidates. Needs of exceptional learners, identification of learning differences and disabilities, and adaptations in the regular inclusion classroom. Legal requirements of special education, testing procedures, development of individualized education plans, and support systems and services. Students follow a special needs learner to understand diagnosis, student needs, and types of services.
Terms: Win
| Units: 2
EDUC 286: Decolonizing the Indigenous Classroom (CSRE 116, CSRE 302, EDUC 186, NATIVEAM 116)
Using Indigenous and decolonizing perspectives on education, this interdisciplinary course will examine interaction and language in cross-cultural educational situations, including language, literacy and interethnic communication as they relate to Indigenous American classrooms. Special attention will be paid to implications of social, cultural and linguistic diversity for educational practice, along with various strategies for bridging intercultural differences between schools and Native communities.
Last offered: Winter 2021
EDUC 287: Graduate Research Workshop on Psychological Interventions (PSYCH 274)
Psychological research has the potential to create novel interventions that promote the public good. This workshop will expose students to psychologically 'wise' intervention research and to support their efforts to conduct such interventions, especially in the context of education, broadly conceived, as well as other areas. The first part of the class will address classic interventions and important topics in intervention research, including effective delivery mechanisms, sensitive behavioral outcomes, the role of theory and psychological process, and considerations of the role of time and of mechanisms that can sustain treatment effects over time. In the second part of the class, students will present and receive feedback on their own ongoing and/or future intervention research. Prerequisite: Graduate standing in Psychology or Education, or consent of instructor.
Last offered: Winter 2020
EDUC 288: Organizational Analysis
This is an introductory course in organizational behavior intended primarily for master's students. The course is applicable to a wide range of organizational settings, but pays particular attention to studies of schools, universities, nonprofit organizations, and social movements. The course has three goals: to explore a variety of organizational contexts; to investigate different theoretical approaches that elucidate these contexts; and to provide students different ways of "seeing" and managing organizations.
Last offered: Autumn 2022
EDUC 289: The Centrality of Literacies in Teaching and Learning
(Formerly
EDUC 166.) Focus is on principles in understanding, assessing, and supporting the reading and writing processes, and the acquisition of content area literacies in secondary schools. Literacy demands within particular disciplines and how to use oral language, reading, and writing to teach content area materials more effectively to all students. (STEP)
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2
EDUC 290: Instructional Leadership: Building Capacity for Excellent Teaching
This course focuses on the role of leaders in designing, supporting and sustaining excellent teaching. How do leaders create the organizational conditions to focus attention on the technical core of instruction, curriculum and assessment. Course goals: 1) explore a variety of educational leadership approaches, 2) investigate the theory of action underlying these approaches to leadership and consider the implications for instructional practice and 3) develop understanding of the relationship between the leadership approach and the learning environment.
Last offered: Spring 2019
EDUC 291: Learning Sciences and Technology Design Research Seminar and Colloquium
Students and faculty present and critique new and original research relevant to the Learning Sciences and Technology Design doctoral program. Goal is to develop a community of scholars who become familiar with each other's work. Practice of the arts of presentation and scholarly dialogue while introducing seminal issues and fundamental works in the field.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-3
| Repeatable
for credit
EDUC 292: Academic Writing in Graduate Education
In this workshop style course, you will learn principles for effective writing in graduate education and beyond. Beginning with consideration of the inherited and cultivated traditions informing your writing practices, you will examine the processes that best support your development as a writer; apply key rhetorical principles to your own writing and analyze those principles at work in other people's prose; practice writing about texts for a variety of purposes; and use feedback to revise your writing for both disciplinary-specific and public audiences. Master's students who are drafting a thesis and doctoral students who are working on qualifying papers or dissertations are especially encouraged to enroll.
Last offered: Winter 2020
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