This course explores multiple aspects of student learning: Including 1) standards-based instruction 2) cultural responsive instructional design, 3) assessment and data, and 4) differentiation in curriculum and instruction so that meaningful instruction becomes accessible to all students. Cross-listed with 4040.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: TCHR-MA plan or BMA subplan.

The purpose of this course is to re-visit multiple aspects of instructional and curriculum design, implementation, and evaluation. The goal is to promote access to knowledge for all learners, including those who are diverse linguistically and culturally and those identified with special needs. Cross-listed with UEDU 4050.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 3.

Through teaching units of instruction in school placements, secondary English/LA and Social Studies teacher candidates learn both unit and lesson design, assessment of student learning, and differentiation of curriculum and instruction to promote access to knowledge for all learners. Cross-listed with UEDU 4052.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: TCHR-MA plan or BMA subplan.

Topics in this course include: curriculum theory; the debate on the purpose of curriculum; multicultural education; critical race theory; social class and school improvement; the intended and unintended consequences of school accountability, reform and closures; teacher retention; and teacher burnout.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

This course is designed to support teachers in establishing a classroom culture centered on fostering students’ 21st Century Success skills: collaboration, communication, creativity, and critical thinking. Teachers will explore ways of implementing and supporting 21st-century skills in planning and instruction.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Introduction to teacher leadership when mentoring pre-service and novice teachers. Includes exploration of teacher leadership dimensions, self-analysis of own potential and impact as a teacher leader, and beginning skills necessary to operationalize emerging roles as a mentor and teacher leader.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

This course prepares mentor teachers to understand dispositions and mind-sets for mentoring, coaching, co-teaching, and collaboration skills and approaches to providing effective feedback to ensure pre-service and novice teachers are well-supported to continually develop and grow.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

This course supports mentor teachers to provide guided apprenticeship for pre-service and novice teachers related to effective practices in facilitating inclusive classroom learning communities, planning, instruction, and assessment that are grounded in equity-focused, asset-based approaches to supporting diverse learners.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

This course examines major issues in education policy analysis. Students will be required to critically analyze an educational policy issue uncovering the context, determining how the policy was implemented and what the outcomes were, intended as well as unintended.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

In this course, scholars will learn the various definitions, purposes and value of socialemotional learning (SEL) in order to lead social-emotional learning in P-12 schools.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

One of two courses on linguistically and culturally relevant history teaching. Cross-listed with UEDU 4465.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: TCHR-MA plan or BMA subplan.

This course explores the current and historical relationship between democracy and social studies education and challenges teachers to think critically about challenging students to not only participate in democracy but transform it.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

This course introduces education professionals to the history of contemporary public school. The contents of this course emphasize the ways in which people from marginalized national and cultural groups have experienced education through eras of compulsory schooling, school segregation, and the contemporary context of school reform.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Independent Study in Urban Community Teacher Education, Topic of study varies according to project. Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 12.

Course topics will vary depending on faculty and student interests. Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 15.

Teacher candidates engage in systematic observation of, participation in, design of, and reflection on curricular, instructional, and management practices across the full range of educational programs within a school. Additionally, teacher candidates participate in the activities of a school community (the school, its classrooms and the community in which the school exists). Graduated learning activities for each internship and time requirements are specified in the program handbook. Cross-listed with UEDU 4931.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Teacher candidates engage in systematic observation of, participation in, design of, and reflection on curricular, instructional, and management practices across the full range of educational programs within a school. Additionally, teacher candidates participate in the activities of a school community (the school, its classrooms and the community in which the school exists). Graduated learning activities for each internship and time requirements are specified in the program handbook. Cross-listed with UEDU 4932.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Teacher candidates engage in systematic observation of, participation in, design of, and reflection on curricular, instructional, and management practices across the full range of educational programs within a school. Additionally, teacher candidates participate in the activities of a school community (the school, its classrooms and the community in which the school exists). Graduated learning activities for each internship and time requirements are specified in the program handbook. Cross-listed with UEDU 4933.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Teacher candidates engage in systematic observation of, participation in, design of, and reflection on curricular, instructional, and management practices across the full range of educational programs within a school. Additionally, they participate in the activities of a professional learning community. Cross-listed with UEDU 4934. Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 8.