EDUC.5102 Critical Literacies (3cr)
This course will address thinking, writing and talking about texts. It will examine the range of literacies including critical, print, technology, visual, media and informational. A special focus will be on anti-racist literature and texts of social justice.
EDUC.5201 Curriculum Planning Perspectives (3cr)
This course introduces students to historical and contemporary curriculum perspectives and assists students in developing their own curriculum perspective, situated within the scholarship. The course also helps students develop skill in curriculum planning, grounded in relevant scholarship.
EDUC.5220 Young Adult Literature (06.522) (3cr)
The major emphasis of the course will be discussion and analysis of the goals of a literature curriculum and the exploration of various methods for achieving these goals. The characteristics of the different genres of literature will be discussed in detail
Requirements:
CSCE Graduate Restrictions
EDUC.5270 Language Acquisition (3cr)
This course will focus on the study of the acquisition of language and the relationship of language learning to the development of literacy. Students will examine both first and second language acquisition. Students will be expected to apply their knowledge of language acquisition to best teaching practices for enhancing first and second language development in the classroom and to the development of literacy.
Requirements:
CSCE Graduate Restrictions
EDUC.5280 Assessment of Reading and Language Disabilities (3cr)
This course examines the selection and use of procedures to make an adequate clinical and educational diagnosis. Includes the assessment of function and dysfunction in factors associated with language development; receptive, expressive, writing, reading; and the administration and interpretation of individual and group tests of perceptual, motor, and conceptual functioning in reading and language.
Requirements:
CSCE Graduate Restrictions
EDUC.5290 Treatment Reading and Language Disabilities (3cr)
This course will explore the specific practices in remedial teaching in grades K-12, using published materials, and developing new materials for small group, whole class, and tutoring settings. Students will develop and implement realistic corrective programs based on the interpretation of literacy assessments. These programs will include selecting strategies of instruction and materials, and establishing a framework of time and evaluation.
Requirements:
06.528 pre-req
EDUC.5410 Teaching Emergent Bilingual Students (3cr)
The purpose of this course is to prepare new secondary teacher candidates with the knowledge and skills to effectively shelter their content instruction, so that the growing population of English learners (ELs) in PK-12 schools can achieve academic success, and contribute their multilingual and multicultural resources. The course will provide aspiring teachers with practical research-based methods, strategies, and protocols to integrate subject area content, language, and literacy. Successful completion of this course provides SEI (Sheltered English Immersion) endorsement, which is required for teaching in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. This is a service learning course.
EDUC.5490 Theory and Research: Reading and Language (3cr)
A final course on the national and international research in reading and language and the pertinence and proposed implementation of research findings to instruction and the various roles of the reading supervisor or director.
Requirements:
CSCE Graduate Restrictions
EDUC.6100 Teaching Disciplinary Literacy (3cr)
The course explores research-based practices for fostering disciplinary literacy across a diversity of academic fields. Designed for K-12 educators, the course addresses the unique challenges and opportunities integral to delivering effective literacy instruction to students with varied learning profiles. Participants will critically examine theoretical frameworks that underpin disciplinary literacy and engage with evidence-based instructional strategies to enhance disciplinary thinking, reading, and writing across multiple formats--including digital and media literacy. Additionally, the course emphasizes the development of collaborative, interdisciplinary learning communities, focusing on contextual literacy study skills, student motivation, and collaborative curriculum design that reflects the complexities of disciplinary practices.
Requirements:
CSCE Graduate Restrictions
EDUC.6101 Theories of Learning (3cr)
This course offers a detailed analysis of the major contemporary learning theories, both behavioral and cognitive.
EDUC.6204 Principles & Practices of Effective Literacy Programs (3cr)
Principles and Practices of Effective Literacy Programs examines the principles and practices that underpin evidence-based effective literacy programs. Participants will explore approaches for designing, implementing, and evaluating literacy initiatives that cater to the needs of diverse learners, including students with Special Needs and English Learners. Emphasis will be placed on the critical examination and analysis of programs, instructional methodologies, and teaching resources, drawing informed conclusions about the effectiveness of such programs to support reading instruction across various age groups and educational settings.
EDUC.6900 Action Research (3cr)
Action Research is the culminating course for all students who are in the M.Ed program in Curriculum and Instruction, including those in PK-12 classroom settings, those who are in the Autism Studies program, educators who are not currently in a classroom, and those who are in informal educational settings. Educators in this course will apply knowledge that they have learned during their coursework to an action research project plan for a classroom or small group setting.
Requirements:
Matriculated in M.Ed. Curriculum and Instruction degree program.