This course will explore key factors influencing early childhood development, highlighting contextual contributors (such as the role of family, community, culture, childcare/school, and policy) that shape early experiences. This will …
This course is designed to increase students' knowledge of and ability to implement foundational and targeted instructional strategies aimed at promoting children's early mathematics skills in domains including numeracy, operations, …
This course will explore design as a creative problem-solving approach to making. Participants will be introduced to design tools and key maker education concepts through hands-on design studio projects, each …
This course provides students with a deep understanding of the nature, causes and consequences of poverty during the early childhood years in the United States. Students will explore mitigating factors …
Provides an introduction to theoretical foundations of how children learn to read and write as well the difficulties some children encounter as they progress in their literacy development. The course …
What makes games so much fun? How can games be educational? The goal of this course is to understand how games can motivate, engage, and teach. In this course students …
This one-credit course is for practicing educators and undergraduates wanting to learn about English Learners (Els) in today's classrooms. This course is an introductory-level consideration of the instructional opportunities and …
Field-based practicum for preservice teachers seeking initial licensure. Students develop skills in fostering positive professional relationships with students, colleagues, and peers; designing and implementing individual, small group, and whole class …
Field-based practicum for preservice teachers seeking initial licensure. Students develop skills in fostering positive professional relationships with students, colleagues, and peers; designing and implementing individual, small group, and whole class …
Field-based practicum for preservice teachers seeking initial licensure. Students develop skills in fostering positive professional relationships with students, colleagues, and peers; designing and implementing individual, small group, and whole class …
Field-based practicum for preservice teachers seeking initial licensure. Students develop skills in fostering positive professional relationships with students, colleagues, and peers; designing and implementing individual, small group, and whole class …
Students will continue to develop and refine their personal mindfulness practice, build upon their understanding of applications of mindfulness for cultivating their well-being and resilience, and for helping others. They …
This course prepares individuals to administer, score, and interpret standard instruments; to use information procedures in the administration of assessments; and to interpret the combined results of psychological, sociological, medical, …
Teaches special education teachers the Virginia Mathematics Standards of Learning (SOL) K-12 content strands: Number and Number Sense; Computation and Estimation; Measurement; Geometry: Probability and Statistics; and Patterns, Functions, and …
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This course explores the meaning and concepts associated with the field of emotional and behavioral disabilities, including the psychological and behavioral characteristics of individuals with emotional and behavioral disabilities. Topics …
This course explores the meaning and concepts associated with the field of learning disabilities, including the psychological and behavioral characteristics of individuals with learning disabilities. Topics include specific causes, assessment, …
This course explores the meaning and concepts associated with the field of learning disabilities, including the psychological and behavioral characteristics of individuals with learning disabilities. Topics include specific causes, assessment, …
Presents cognitive and behavioral instructional approaches for teaching students with disabilities in a variety of service delivery options. Emphasis is given to collaborating and adapting instruction, assessment, and materials within …
This class focuses on the development of legally appropriate IEPs and their application to instructional planning. The course will also address transition planning and the strategies for assisting students with …