Distance Learning

Invest Critical/Contemporary Issues

This course engages students in observations, interactions, and analyses of critical and contemporary educational issues. Students will investigate issues influencing the social and political contexts of educational settings in Georgia and the United States. Students will actively examine the teaching profession from multiple vantage points both within and outside the school. Against this backdrop, students will reflect on and interpret the meaning of education and schooling in a diverse culture and examine the moral and ethical responsibilities of teaching in a democracy.

Students who successfully complete EDUC 2110 will be able to:

• Investigate and describe contemporary schools and the interplay of school and society via selected social, historical, political, economic, philosophical, and cultural issues that influence those schools.
• Discover, explore, and describe current issues and trends in schools using disciplinary and interdisciplinary fields and the lens of analysis, critique, and interpretation.
• Analyze their legal, ethical, and professional responsibilities as future teachers.
• Explore their core values and reflect on how their values influence their beliefs about “good” teaching and schooling in democratic contexts.
• Develop and refine a philosophy of teaching for contemporary schools by exploring who they are as a potential teacher and what dispositions they have for teaching diverse students in current GA and US school contexts.
• Analyze the implications, benefits, and challenges concerning the use of technology in contemporary GA and US classrooms.

Course Requirements:

• Documentation of 10 hours of classroom observation in a classroom
• Completion of a portfolio
• Online Quizzes and assignments
• Basic knowledge of computers and computer applications
• This course requires the completion of 10 hours of field experience, which is obtained through classroom observation of state-certified teachers during the semester the course is taken.

Additional Requirements:

• A computer with Microsoft Word and appropriate plug ins to successfully run GAView.  See https://albanystate.view.usg.edu/d2l/login – click System Checker

Exploring Socio-Cultural Perspective

Given the rapidly changing demographics in our state and country this course is designed to equip future teachers with the fundamental knowledge of understanding culture and teaching children from diverse backgrounds. Specifically, this course is designed to examine 1) the nature and function of culture; 2) the development of individual and group cultural identity; 3) definitions and implications of diversity, and 4) the influences of culture on learning, development, and pedagogy.

Students who successfully complete EDUC 2120 will be able to:

• Identify how history and culture shape world views
• Recognize the development of his/her own cultural identity and learning styles
• Compare and contrast differences related to family structure, socioeconomic status, abilities/disabilities and culture.
• Identify school practices and policies that perpetuate and maintain achievement gaps, including negative stereotypes, related to race, class, persons with disabilities, gender, sexual orientation, and other forms of prejudice and discrimination.
• Identify strategies that creatively deal with challenges and differences between the cultures of educators and students.
• Identify assets and values of diverse populations to bring student learning to higher levels.

Course Requirements:

• Documentation of 10 hours of classroom observation in a classroom
• Completion of a portfolio
• Online Quizzes and assignments
• Basic knowledge of computers and computer applications
• This course requires the completion of 10 hours of field experience, which is obtained through classroom observation of state-certified teachers during the semester the course is taken.

Additional Requirements:

• A computer with Microsoft Word and appropriate plug ins to successfully run GeorgiaView.  See https://albanystate.view.usg.edu/d2l/login – click System Checker

Exploring Teaching and Learning

This course is designed to explore some of the principle theories of learning and teaching. Students will examine their own learning processes and those of others, with the goal of applying that knowledge toward enhancing the learning of all students in a variety of educational settings and contexts.

Students who successfully complete EDUC 2130 will be able to:

• Apply learning theories to classroom situations
• Examine the importance of the psychology of the individual to the development of self-esteem, cooperative learning, individual differences, motivation and learning styles.
• Describe the relationships of teachers, parents, and students that lead to a productive learning environment.
• Articulate their beliefs about education and the role of educational psychology.

Course Requirements:

• Documentation of 10 hours of classroom observation in a classroom
• Create a portfolio
• Participate in discussion questions
• Online Quizzes and assignments
• Basic knowledge of computers and computer applications

Additional Requirements:

• A computer with Microsoft Word and appropriate plug ins to successfully run GeorgiaView. See https://albanystate.view.usg.edu/d2l/login – click System Checker.

Professional Development for Accomplished Teachers

This course focuses on the self-assessment of individual student understanding and application of mastery outcomes based on National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. Emphasis will be upon preparing educators to assess their practice using the rigorous guidelines for the NBTS process.

Introduction Teacher Education

Orientation to Teacher Education provides graduate students with the training and information needed to successfully navigate ASU teacher preparation program requirements. Students will receive training on the College of Education's Conceptual Framework; the requirements needed to successfully complete teacher preparation programs; learn to navigate DegreeWorks to complete academic program plans of study; and learn to navigate LiveText for purposes of assessment and evaluation of Key Unit and Program specific assessments. All students will be required to purchase a LiveText account and have an active ASU account prior to participation in the course.

Educational Statistics (Prerequisite for EDUC 5502)

Application of basic descriptive statistics to education. Data graphs and tables, probability, sampling statistics, correlation and hypothesis testing are studied.

Action/Classroom Research

A study of research methods, procedures and designs, including the preparation of research abstracts and action research as it applies to educational settings.

History of American Education

A survey of major developments in the rise of public school in the U.S. from the colonial period to the present.

Philosophy of Education

A study of the basic tenets of education focusing on current issues and their basic assumptions in schools. The derivations of issues and practices are analyzed.

Curriculum Principles

Models for curriculum development and the forces that bear on curriculum decision making will be studied. This is the basic course in principles of curriculum development for graduate students, including those from diverse backgrounds with a variety of career goals.

Curriculum Principles

Models for curriculum development and the forces that bear on curriculum decision making will be studied. This is the basic course in principles of curriculum development for graduate students, including those from diverse backgrounds with a variety of career goals.