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Program Overview

  • Duration

    6 Months (Self-Paced) Program

    Can be done in 6 months

  • Total Courses

    5

  • Total Credit Hours

    30 Hours

The Teaching and Learning program provides educators with advanced knowledge in instructional techniques, educational psychology, and curriculum development. Students learn to adapt to diverse learning styles and optimize teaching methods. Graduates are well-prepared to enhance the learning experience in a variety of educational settings.

Pedagogical Foundations And Teaching Methods:

The College of Education begins with a focus on pedagogical foundations and teaching methods. Students delve into the principles of education, child development, and innovative teaching techniques. This foundational knowledge equips them with the skills necessary to inspire and educate future generations.

Classroom Experience And Student Engagement:

Beyond the theoretical framework, our College of Education places a strong emphasis on classroom experience and student engagement. Students have opportunities to participate in teaching practicums, work with diverse student populations, and collaborate with local schools. These experiences not only enhance their teaching skills but also provide valuable insights into effective education strategies.

Global Education Perspectives And Cross-Cultural Teaching:

The College of Education at Southeastern Michigan University is committed to promoting global education perspectives and cross-cultural teaching. Our curriculum explores international approaches to education and encourages students to engage in cross-cultural teaching experiences through study abroad programs and collaborations with educators from around the world. This global perspective equips students to excel in diverse educational settings.

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.

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.

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.

Introduction to Elementary Reading Methods

This course offers the most current insight on thinking processes, on reading and writing as language, and on the importance of the affective domain. It provides an overview of phonemic awareness, phonics, and word recognition, decoding, reading comprehension and vocabulary.

Introduction to Teaching and Learning

Designed to apply learning theory and principles to presentation of learning, this course shows how learning principles work in both animals and people. Throughout the course, you would learn how study of learning helps solve practical problems, impact of habituation and classical conditioning. Course explores human memory, its functions and processes.

Cost of Attendance

Tuition Fee Breakdown Cost
GRADUATE DIPLOMA $6,450
Medical Insurance $0.00
Personal Expenses $0.00
Study Materials $0.00
Food Cost $0.00
Total Tuition Fee $6,450
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Eligibility Criteria

Bachelor's degree, or equiv. International Education

Credit Hours

30 Hours

Course Duration

6 Months (Self-Paced) Program

Courses Offered

5

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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.

Introduction to Elementary Reading Methods

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Effective reading instruction: the teacher makes the difference
    Developing children and rsquo;s oral language
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Early reading instruction: teaching the essentials
    Phonics and word identification
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Developing children and rsquo;s reading fluency
    Increasing reading vocabulary
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Teaching reading comprehension
    Writing
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Assessment
    Programs and standards for reading instruction
    Effective reading instruction and organization in grades 4-8

Introduction to Teaching and Learning

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Do i want to be a teacher?
    Developing as a professional.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Helping diverse learners succeed in today's classrooms.
    Changes in american society: their influences on today's schools.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Education in the united states: its historical roots.
    Educational philosophy: the intellectual foundations of american education.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The organization of american schools.
    Governance and finance: regulating and funding schools.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    School law: ethical and legal influences on teaching.
    The school curriculum.
    Creating productive learning environments.
    Instruction in american classrooms.
    Technology in american schools.
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