EDUC 277: Education of Immigrant Students: Psychological Perspectives
Historical and contemporary approaches to educating immigrant students. Case study approach focuses on urban centers to demonstrate how stressed urban educational agencies serve immigrants and native-born U.S. students when confronted with overcrowded classrooms, controversy over curriculum, current school reform movements, and government policies regarding equal educational opportunity.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Padilla, A. (PI)
EDUC 278: Introduction to Issues in Evaluation
Open to master's and doctoral students with priority to students in the School of Education. Focus is on the basic literature and major theoretical and practical issues in the field of program evaluation. Topics include: defining purpose, obtaining credible evidence, the role of the evaluator, working with stakeholder, values in evaluation, utilization, and professional standards. The course project is to design an evaluation for a complex national or international program selected by the instructor.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-4
Instructors:
Porteus, A. (PI)
EDUC 279: American Jewish History: Learning to be Jewish in America (AMSTUD 279X, HISTORY 288D, JEWISHST 297X, RELIGST 279X)
This course will be a seminar in American Jewish History through the lens of education. It will address both the relationship between Jews and American educational systems, as well as the history of Jewish education in America. Plotting the course along these two axes will provide a productive matrix for a focused examination of the American Jewish experience. History students must take course for at least 3 units.
EDUC 280: 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: Spr
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Wieman, C. (PI)
EDUC 281: 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 approaches to designing tools for learning, the theories behind them, and the research that tests their effectiveness. Strong focus on evaluating and designing new tools for specific learners and subjects.nnSpace is limited. Priority is given to master¿s students in Education and to master¿s / upper-level students in Human Computer Interaction.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-4
Instructors:
Forssell, K. (PI)
;
Martin, P. (TA)
EDUC 282: The Politics of Knowledge in the Twentieth Century United States
This course examines the relationship between social scientific knowledge and power in the modern United States. Topics include the emergence of social scientific disciplines, debates over objectivity, and professionalization. The course examines both how universities, philanthropic foundations, and the federal government have shaped knowledge production and how social science has influenced law, social and educational policy, and popular social thought.
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)
;
Merino, N. (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)
;
Evans, L. (PI)
;
Lotan, R. (PI)
;
Pitts, A. (PI)
;
Price, P. (PI)
;
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 286B: Second Language Acquisition Research
Major research findings and theories in second language acquisition. Second language research and theories in formal and informal settings where a second language is learned.
Last offered: Winter 2014
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