printer friendly pageEDUC 280X: Learning & Teaching of Science (PHYSICS 295)
This course will provide students with a basic knowledge of the relevant research in cognitive psychology and science education and the ability to apply that knowledge to enhance their ability to learn and teach science, particularly at the undergraduate level. Course will involve readings, discussion, and application of the ideas through creation of learning activities. It is suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students with some science background.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Wieman, C. (PI)
EDUC 281X: Technology for Learners
How can we use technology to improve learning? Many hope that technology will make learning easier, faster, or accessible to more learners. This course explores a variety of different approaches to designing tools for learning, the theories behind them, and the research that tests their effectiveness. Topics include feedback, visualization, games, multimedia, tangible-digital interfaces, simulations, and more. Students will work on teams to identify a need, create a prototype, and design tests to understand its impact.nnSpace is limited. Priority is given to masters students in Education and to masters / upper-level students in Human Computer Interaction.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Forssell, K. (PI)
EDUC 283: Child Development In and Beyond Schools
(Formerly
EDUC 144). How schools form a context for children's social and cognitive development. Focus is on early and middle childhood. Transactional processes between children and learning opportunities in classroom contexts. Topics include: alternative theoretical perspectives on the nature of child development; early experience and fit with traditional school contexts; assessment practices and implications for developing identities as learners; psychological conceptions of motivational processes and alternative perspectives; the role of peer relationships in schools; and new designs for learning environments. Readings address social science and methodological issues. STEP Elementary only.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2
Instructors:
Hill-Bonnet, L. (PI)
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Merino, N. (PI)
EDUC 283X: Practicum in English-Spanish School & Community Interpreting (CHILATST 183X, EDUC 183X)
This practicum will assist students in developing a set of skills in English-Spanish interpreting that will prepare them to provide interpretation services in school and community settings. The course will build students' abilities to transfer intended meanings between two or more monolingual individuals of who are physically present in a school or community setting and who must communicate with each other for professional (and personal) purposes.
Terms: Aut, Spr
| Units: 3-4
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 12 units total)
Instructors:
Valdes, G. (PI)
EDUC 284: Teaching and Learning in Heterogeneous Classrooms
Teaching in academically and linguistically heterogeneous classrooms requires a repertoire of pedagogical strategies. Focus is on how to provide access to intellectually challenging curriculum and equal-status interaction for students in diverse classrooms. Emphasis is on group work and its cognitive, social, and linguistic benefits for students. How to prepare for group work, equalize participation, and design learning tasks that support conceptual understanding, mastery of content and language growth. How to assess group products and individual contributions. (STEP)
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Elenz-Martin, N. (PI)
;
Evans, L. (PI)
;
Lotan, R. (PI)
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Instructors:
Elenz-Martin, N. (PI)
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Evans, L. (PI)
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Lotan, R. (PI)
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Pitts, A. (PI)
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Price, P. (PI)
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Schultz, S. (PI)
EDUC 285: Supporting Students with Special Needs
For STEP 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: Spr
| Units: 2-3
EDUC 288: Organizational Analysis (SOC 366)
Principles of organizational behavior and analysis; theories of group and individual behavior; organizational culture; and applications to school organization and design. Case studies.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Powell, W. (PI)
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: Sum
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Aiello, L. (PI)
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Aukerman, M. (PI)
;
Martin, P. (PI)
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Instructors:
Aiello, L. (PI)
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Aukerman, M. (PI)
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Martin, P. (PI)
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Murdock-Perriera, L. (PI)
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Park, S. (PI)
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Reimer, Z. (PI)
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.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-4
Instructors:
Brazer, S. (PI)
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
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