Online
Nov 29-Jan 30, 2010
Credit: 3 graduate
Cost: $909.75
Instructor(s): Walker Asserson and Susan Stolp

Restricted to students in Northern Plains Transition to Teaching

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Course Description:

This course is designed to meet certification requirements in the areas of Special Needs, Diversity and Multicultural Education, and related topics in Classroom Management. It is designed to equip new teachers with the skills, knowledge, and dispositions to meet the teaching profession's expectation that public school classrooms operate to serve the needs of all learners. This course will provide the theoretical content that will then be mirrored in the second internship of this program sequence (EDCI 559).

Topics to be covered will include:

• Theories of Democracy (meritiocracy vs social democracy)
• Democracy as a sociocultural dynamic
• The history of human empowerment and the role of education
• Valuing Traditional Cultures
• Understanding modern scientific-technological culture
• Youth Culture
• Deviance
• The Civil Rights movement and its legacy
• Special needs and the classroom
• Management of the Social Environment
• Classroom Discipline
• The culturally and ethnically diverse classroom (case studies)
• Are there different learning styles?
• Are curriculum materials biased?

Meeting Place and Times: Teachers login to the course at a time of day that best fits their schedule. It is necessary to connect at least 4 - 6 times per week spending 15 - 18 hours each week, either online or offline, working on course related assignments, to stay current and successfully complete this 3 credit graduate course.

Instructor(s): Walker Asserson, M.Ed. Walker is a Social Studies teacher at Bozeman High in Montana.

Susan Stolp, M.Ed.

Prerequisites: Students must be accepted into the Northern Plains Transition to Teaching Program, or recieve approval from NPTT.

Target Audience: Non-degree Teacher Licensure/Certification and Graduate students in the Northern Plains Transition to Teaching Program.

Time Commitment: 15-18 hours per week. If you are unfamiliar with this field of study and/or method of delivery, you may require more time.

This should be paid to Extended University at Montana State University at the time of registration.

Students are on their own to purchase the required text for the course.

The cost of the course assumes that you are taking only online courses from Montana State University (MSU) and/or specially designated courses through MSU Extended University during the semester that the course is offered. If you are also taking regular face-to-face courses from Montana State University, other costs may apply.

Montana State University charges a $3.25 per credit hour computer fee for this course. (The fee is $3.15 per credit hour during summer session 2009.)

MSU also charges a $30 registration fee per student per semester. If you have not yet paid this fee, you may do so when you register for this course.

To learn more, please see the University Business Services' Student Accounts Web page.

Required Books/Materials:

• Sowers, J. (2004). Creating a community of learners: Solving the puzzle of classroom management. Portland, OR: Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory. ISBN 0-89354-080-3.

  To order this book, please follow thislink

• Marzano, Robert J. (2007). The Art and Science of Teaching: A Comprehensive Framework for Effective Instruction. Alexandria, VA: ASCD. ISBN: 978-1-4166-0571-3

Teachers are on their own to purchase the required text(s) before the course begins. Learn more about where to purchase text(s). If you have questions about the required text(s) contact NPTT nptt@montana.edu.

Computer Requirements:

• Computer running Windows 2000 or newer or Mac OS X or higher
• CD-ROM drive
• Internet access

This course uses a learning management system. You will learn more closer to the course start date.

For More Information: For more information contact NPTT at nptt@montana.edu

How to Register: Register Online

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