Required Instructional Core (15 credits)

These five courses were selected to be the core of instruction because each provides an essential component of excellent instruction.

Please note that courses listed here beginning with the number 4 is the same as those in the Regional Training Center brochure beginning with the letter A, so that course 45291 is the same as A5291, etc.

• 45726 Brain-Based Teaching and Learning
• 45146 Differentiated Instruction
• 45225 Assessment Techniques: Assessing For Student Learning
• 45229 Teaching For Success In The Multicultural Classroom
• 45289 Styles of Teaching: Personality Type in the Classroom

Required Classroom Management Core (3 credits)

Either of these courses will substantially increase the teacher’s ability to manage the climate in the classroom, creating an appropriate learning environment. Dignifying both the learner and the learning process are essential.

• 45296 Cooperative Discipline OR
• 45226 Increasing Student Responsibility and Self-Discipline in Learning Communities

Elective Courses (any two courses--6 credits)

The candidate and her/his advisor together plan which electives best meet the needs of the teacher’s own classroom / school situation, and professional opportunities for growth. These courses deepen and broaden the teacher’s knowledge and skills into topics/areas of their choice.

• 45291 Cooperative Classroom: Kagan's Instructional Practices
• 45727 Skills and Strategies for Inclusion and disAbility Awareness
• 45228 Integrating the Curricula
• 45290 Dimensions of Learning
• 45409 Teaching Writing and Thinking Across the Curriculum
• 45220 Expanding Student Thinking in the Classroom
• 45117 Teaching Readers to Think
• 45221 Teaching and Learning through Multiple Intelligences OR 45719 Multiple Intelligences Strategies
• 45728 Dealing with AD/HD-Type Behavior in the Classroom
  
• Approved Elective Courses
  
• Approved Transfer-In Courses
  
  

Required Research Course and Performance Project (9 credits)

With her/his research advisor, the candidate will determine the topic, body of research, research techniques, applied research strategies and the writing/recording of the Project. This culminating activity is conducted in three stages:

• 45196 Educational Research: Practice and Theory - Techniques and opportunities for the Project
• 45197 Action Research: Planning and Design - Designing the plan; starting/doing the research
• 45198 Performance Project: Completion, Presentation and Evaluation - Completing research, checking/validating results, presenting the Project