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  • 3.00 Credits

    This course exposes students to the requisite instructional planning, delivery and assessment strategies necessary to become highly effective educators of technology education. Activities will afford each student the opportunity to become well-grounded in the philosophy, theory and practice of Technology Education curriculum and pedagogy built from the contemporary STEL standards.This course is connected to Level III Field Experience
  • 0.00 Credits

    Students will use their technical skills and knowledge in the area of communication, transportation, manufacturing, construction, bio-related technologies and develop curriculum plans, design laboratories, and instructional activities appropriate for teaching technology in the secondary school. In addition, enhancing technical skills, teaching techniques, program assessment, and evaluating student learning will be emphasized along with safety, liability, school law and the integration of math, science, technology, and social science in learning activities.
  • 0.00 Credits

    This course is designed for students who are technology education majors. It is designed to offer each student the opportunity to design and build teaching/learning activities that integrate concepts related to mathematics, science, communication and social science with technology.
  • 3.00 Credits

    The focus of this course is two-fold. First, students will use state and national standards to develop a technology education curriculum by using various curriculum design processes. The second phase of the class is designed to improve the students' ability to use appropriate standards-based instructional methods. These include cooperative learning, problem-based learning, discovery learning, constructivism, reflection, meta-cognition and others those students research and demonstrate to the class.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course focuses on the development of understanding of the concepts of development and sustainability and their relationships to technology. Concepts of basic human needs, community development, technology assessment and research into specific technological alternatives will be included. Students will design, produce, test, and assess a relevant technological system.
  • 3.00 Credits

    The focus of this course is to understand the specific needs, populations, processes, adaptations, funding sources and other factors that affect the success of special populations who will be educated in technology education laboratory-based programs. This course will enable students to explore and develop various instructional methodologies and assessments for student learning. Finally, students will be introduced to a variety of classroom management and discipline issues that classroom teachers encounter each day and taught techniques to handle these situations.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course is designed to give teachers an opportunity to study real classroom situations and to design a plan of action to improve that situation. Teachers will learn how to conduct a review of the literature and develop an understanding of various research methodologies, especially as they relate to Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education. Reflection and analysis of current trends in the STEM disciplines is a key component of action research.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Students will engage in a process to develop or access a district-wide technology standards-based program. They will develop strategies to facilitate and enhance student learning in all areas of their program, including content, curricula, instruction, student assessment, learning environment and professional development. They will examine the current status of a district's program, establish new goals, determine strategies to meet those goals, develop goals to enhance personnel knowledge and skills, and examine strategies to evaluate their success.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Students interns will produce a major culminating piece of academic work that synthesizes contents from the Technology Education masters program. This may take the form of a research activity of various types, a major curriculum development project, or other extensive individually produced pieces or work that is approved by the internship supervisor. All projects must follow a technological design process.
  • 3.00 Credits

    A study of the art of theatre from playscript to play production. The course surveys theatre history, literature, architecture, acting, directing, and design for the student who wants to know what goes on in theatre and what it means.
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