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UnderGraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning

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Undergraduate Certificate

Courses Offered in TEACHING AND LEARNING

The following courses are available for your Associate's degree. Each course provides you a unique educational experience. Each course is developed by an international staff of highly skilled instructors. The course material is updated to provide students with the latest current information in the subject.

Specialized Course

  • Course Name

  • Courses Description

  • Credit Hours

  • Basics of Reading Problems

  • This course focuses on struggling students and emphasizing classroom-based, teacher-driven approaches to assessment and remediation. Expanded coverage of portfolio assessment, lexiles and guided reading levels, running records, and developmental spelling stages, emergent literacy assessments, assessing and teaching students with limited English proficiency is also included.

  • 6 Credits

  • Teaching and Learning Technology

  • This course guides you as you learn to become proficient at applying the computer to solve problems; to infuse the computer into the curriculum in order to help you do the same; and to integrate technology into their professional, academic, and personal lives in useful and meaningful ways.

  • 6 Credits

  • Current Issues in Teaching and Learning

  • This course offers you the foundations of education a perspective arguing American society has undergone a series of profound social, cultural, and political changes since 1960s that have redefined the meaning of teaching, learning, and schooling in a postmodern culture. It directs you toward most vital issues in contemporary education.

  • 6 Credits

Basics of Reading Problems

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Reading and its assessment.
    Assessment for internal audiences: on-going assessments.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Assessment for internal audiences: periodic in-depth assessments.
    Assessment for internal audiences: portfolio assessment.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Assessment for external audiences: formal measures.
    Emergent and beginning literacy.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Assessing and teaching developing readers.
    Mature readers and writers.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Adolescent students with reading problems.
    Strategies for teaching reading and writing to english language learners.
    Factors related to reading problems

Teaching and Learning Technology

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Learning and instruction
    Computer applications in education
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The impact of the computer on education
    Legal and ethical issues
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Learning about the computer
    Learning with graphics tools
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Learning with word processor tools
    Learning with spreadsheet tools
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Learning with database tools
    Learning with multimedia tools
    Learning with internet tools
    Internet applications in education

Current Issues in Teaching and Learning

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Introduction.
    Schools as cultural institutions.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Sustaining our culture and the goals of education.
    Education and american society.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Teachers in american society.
    Local and state involvement in american education.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Private education and religion in the united states.
    Immigration, education, and multiculturalism.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Childhood, adolescence and the family.
    Race and american education.
    Gender and education.
    The education of students with special needs.
    Textbooks and the curriculum.
    Media, computers, and education.
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