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ED5413 - Observation and AssessmentCredits: 3
Content in this course will include observation strategies and assessment tools used to design curriculum and identify developmental needs of children in the classroom. Methods utilizing assessment and providing guidance for classroom curriculum designed to support the identification of individual learning needs will be considered. Strategies will be aligned to the ongoing development of student portfolios as a form of observation.
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ECON5003 - Economics AnalysisCredits: 3
Understanding macro and micro economics is critical for business leaders. In this course, students learn how economic issues and strategies are implemented in the business environment, as well as how economic problems are solved. Economic theory is applied to the decision-making process through the application of econometrics. Students apply theories to topics such as supply and demand, human capital, finance, and technology. In this course, social impact economics emphasizes the integration of positive social effects, social investments, philanthropy, and developing solutions to public issues to make the market more efficient.
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ECON5203 - Education EconomicsCredits: 3
By investigating the underlying structures of economics through the application of econometrics, students apply theories to topics such as human capital, institutional finance, and educational technology. As economics grows more complex and critical, educational choice, public funding, and policy trends impact the education production function. The economics of education is explored from a cost-and-benefit perspective as students learn to navigate operational challenges, make data-driven financial decisions, and maximize capital resources utilizing sound principles of management.
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Education Teaching/Learning |
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ED5001 - Capstone in Master of Arts in TeachingCredits: 1
The capstone experience provides an opportunity for students in the M.A.T. in Elementary and Secondary Education programs to demonstrate and document the impact of the knowledge and competencies gained throughout and as a result of the program. In the capstone experience, students select artifacts produced along with or as a result of course application assignments. These artifacts serve as the centerpiece of a culminating project that demonstrates competency in educational practices.
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ED5002 - Seminar in EducationCredits: 2
This course provides students with the opportunity to apply theory, pedagogy, culture, and
best practices in education to understand the role of the classroom teacher. Through an
application-based learning environment, students gain knowledge of specific critical issues
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facing schools and classrooms. Topics include qualities of effective teachers, diversity, learning
environments and professional environments.
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ED5023 - Assessment StrategiesCredits: 3
Embracing the value of assessment and evaluation is the first step in improving learner outcomes through datadriven decision-making. This course develops relevant competencies and promotes a healthy balance of utilizing formative and summative assessments, evaluation practices, and data to inform and guide integrated curriculum development and instructional delivery. Assessments can provide facilitators with the knowledge and skills required to meet the needs of diverse learners in a variety of school and organizational settings.
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ED5053 - Community Engagement, Outreach, and CollaborationCredits: 3
How can those within the community support the established teaching and learning goals set by the school? This course provides a foundation for developing relationships among stakeholders in the school community-students, school, parents, and the community at large-for the express goal of supporting student learning. In addition to examining research findings, students will explore family engagement, mutually beneficial community relationships, and student advocacy. The course culminates with a plan for continuing school improvement and professional growth.
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ED5123 - Diverse LearnersCredits: 3
This course reviews data related to the effectiveness of educational initiatives emphasizing evidence-based instructional design models used to assess and instruct students with diverse learning needs. Special attention is given to inclusion of traditionally underrepresented learner populations, i.e.; special education, LEP, economically disadvantaged, and ethnic minorities.
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ED5193 - Foundations of EducationCredits: 3
This course introduces students to the historical, political, and social influences on the development of the U. S. educational system. Topics include major philosophies of teaching and learning, the impact of educational theories on educational practice, legal aspects of education, and school effectiveness and student achievement.
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ED5223 - Transforming Teaching and LearningCredits: 3
This course assists students in understanding teaching and learning processes and how to use this knowledge to increase the professional skills of colleagues for the purpose of increasing student achievement. Emphasis is placed on ways to model continuous learning and reflective practices and strategies to promote collaboration with colleagues to align instructional practices with school goals, mission, and vision. Technology integration and online delivery are major threads in the coursework.
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ED5253 - Cognition and Critical ThinkingCredits: 3
This course examines cognition, specifically the psychological processes of how individuals think and remember as applied to developing judgment and reasoning throughout the learning process. This course will also explore critical thinking as a process reflective of Bloom’s Taxonomy incorporating active learning by formulating ideas, gaining knowledge and comprehension, making appropriate applications, and moving into higher levels of learning through analyzing, evaluating, and creating.
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ED5263 - Fundamentals of Integrated ThinkingCredits: 3
Integrated thinkers view and often embrace variables within a problem to contain causal dynamics and connected relationships. This course analyzes the methodology for “big picture”, complex, and creative problem-solving relying on imagination, intuition, and reasoning to develop strategies, courses of action, and evaluation in a variety of schools and organizations.
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ED5353 - Principles of Program Design and ImplementationCredits: 3
Surveying various program models related to health education, this course identifies specific components of program design and examines methods to determine strategies for implementing a program into a specific setting. Relevant application of the material will relate principles of fundamental care to guide informed choice and formative research to assess needs. In addition, the course will address how to monitor and evaluate programs, including elements of operations scale-up and funding.
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ED5363 - Conceptualization in LearningCredits: 3
By creating new dimensions of thought to establish meaning and relevance, the ability to conceptualize promotes transferability. This course builds foundational understanding of practical approaches to teach conceptualization while also developing personal and professional knowledge and skills in interrelations, multiple perspectives, concept map development, generalizations and terminology across disciplines. A focus on synergistic effects moves learning across domains into multiple contexts for use in novel situations.
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ED5373 - Implementing Integrated CurriculumCredits: 3
The implementation of integrated curriculum involves transforming learning environments to include stakeholders within and beyond the present context. This course supports strategies to teach and communicate principles of interdependence by addressing the “how and why” of integrated curriculum. Aspects of philosophy, attitudes, and strategies are modeled to engage learners in the creative process of influencing change.
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ED5383 - Principles of IntegrationCredits: 3
This problem-based course is designed to guide the conditions of applying principles in new contexts. By examining how common components cross disciplines to create interdependency, this course uses abstract representations to enhance and facilitate conceptual transfer. Curriculum is perceived through the understanding of social relationships, cognition, and frameworks for problem solving using real-world issues which allow theories in one field to parallel application in another.
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ED5423 - Family, School, and CommunityCredits: 3
This course will address how to establish and support partnerships with families and the community around the school. Content will address how to meet the needs of families, establish connections in the community, and serve as an advocate for early childhood.
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ED5433 - Child GuidanceCredits: 3
Research-based guidance strategies for classroom management are considered. The identification, selection, and support for a variety of methods will be acquired to guide the development of an individualized plan dependent upon the assessed needs of a child.
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ED6053 - Assessment StrategiesCredits: 3
Embracing the value of assessment and evaluation is the first step in improving learner outcomes through data-driven decision-making. This course develops relevant competencies and promotes a healthy balance of utilizing formative and summative assessments, evaluation practices, and data to inform and guide integrated curriculum development and instructional delivery. Assessments can provide facilitators with the knowledge and skills required to meet the needs of diverse learners in a variety of school and organizational settings.
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ED6063 - Designing and Leading Professional LearningCredits: 3
This course promotes the concept of leaders serving as role models of professional development for their staffs to achieve higher levels of performance within the organization. To do so, leaders must utilize effective strategies, programs, and services based on data-driven decisions and the needs of stakeholders in the organizational community. Emphasis is placed on the impact of relevant, high-quality, job-embedded, differentiated, technology-integrated professional learning opportunities aligned to organizational goals. The course also prepares leaders to serve as advocates for sufficient preparation, time, and support for colleagues to work collaboratively in job-embedded professional learning.
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IC5091 - Capstone Experience for Integrated CurriculumCredits: 1
The Capstone Experience is designed for candidates to demonstrate and document the impact of their knowledge and competencies gained throughout, and as a result of studies related to the Integrated Curriculum.
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LEAD5043 - Instructional LeadershipCredits: 3
This course focuses on the improvement of curriculum, instruction, and student achievement throughout diverse school and organizational settings. To make these improvements, leaders must first develop the skill set and knowledge base necessary to build leadership capacity among staff members. Instructional leaders can then collaboratively set learner-centered goals to promote higher levels of student progress, achievement, and post-secondary and college and career readiness.
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LEAD5053 - Designing and Leading Professional LearningCredits: 3
This course promotes the concept of leaders serving as role models of professional development for their staffs to achieve higher levels of performance within the organization. To do so, leaders must utilize effective strategies, programs, and services based on data-driven decisions and the needs of stakeholders in the organizational community. Emphasis is placed on the impact of relevant, high-quality, job-embedded, differentiated, technology-integrated professional learning opportunities aligned to organizational goals. The course also prepares leaders to serve as advocates for sufficient preparation, time, and support for colleagues to work collaboratively in job-embedded professional learning.
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LEAD5063 - Achievement and AccountabilityCredits: 3
This course emphasizes the importance of understanding state, federal, and other accountability standards in relation to the needs of learners within schools, school districts, and organizational communities. The focus of the course remains on identifying learners’ academic strengths and areas in need of improvement to eliminate achievement gaps, improve achievement levels, ensure progress, increase graduation rates, and promote post-secondary and college/career readiness.
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EDTT5021 - Orientation to Elementary TeachingCredits: 1
This introduction to the teaching field provides students a rich perspective on child development knowledge, observational strategies and skills, and ethics in education. Students increase their understanding and awareness of teacher roles and responsibilities in relation to the school climate and educational policy. The course also introduces students to the tools and technologies that they will need to successfully complete field experiences that are integrated throughout their coursework and the student teaching experience.
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EDTT5022 - Elementary Student Teaching and SeminarCredits: 2
This course provides students with the opportunity to apply theory, pedagogy, and best practices in education to understanding the role of the elementary teacher. In this course, students participate in a 15-week (full time) practicum designed to provide the knowledge and experience necessary for teaching in the elementary classroom. Through an application based learning environment students will apply the skills they have learned throughout their previous coursework and experience firsthand the issues facing schools and classrooms. Topics include educational foundations, philosophy of education, diversity, exceptional needs, classroom management, cultural competencies, as well as lesson planning, implementation and assessment. Pre-requisite(s): Completion of all T2T/MAT content courses; maintenance of 3.0 grade point average across all T2T/MAT courses.
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EDTT5031 - Orientation to Secondary TeachingCredits: 1
This orientation to secondary teaching provides students a rich perspective on adolescent development, observational strategies and skills, and professionalism and ethics in education. Students increase their understanding and awareness of teacher roles and responsibilities in relation to school climate and culture, certification and evaluation requirements, and educational laws and policy. The course also introduces students to the tools and technologies they will need to successfully complete field experiences integrated throughout their coursework and the student teaching experience.
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EDTT5032 - Secondary Student Teaching and SeminarCredits: 2
This course provides students with the opportunity to apply theory, pedagogy, and best practices in education to understanding the role of the secondary teacher. In this course, students participate in a 15-week (full time) practicum designed to provide the knowledge and experience necessary for teaching in the secondary classroom. Through an application based learning environment students will apply the skills they have learned throughout their previous coursework and experience firsthand the issues facing schools and classrooms. Topics include educational foundations, philosophy of education, diversity, exceptional needs, classroom management, cultural competencies, as well as lesson planning, implementation and assessment. Pre-requisite(s): Completion of all T2T/MAT content courses; maintenance of 3.0 grade point average across all T2T/MAT courses.
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EDTT5041 - Capstone Experience for Secondary TeachersCredits: 1
The capstone experience provides an opportunity for students in the M.A.T. in Secondary Education program to demonstrate and document the impact of the knowledge and competencies gained throughout and as a result of the program. In the capstone experience, students select artifacts produced along with or as a result of course application assignments. These artifacts serve as the centerpiece of a culminating project that demonstrates competency in teaching.
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EDTT5061 - Capstone Experience for Elementary TeachersCredits: 1
The capstone experience provides an opportunity for students in the M.A.T. in Elementary Education program to demonstrate and document the impact of the knowledge and competencies gained throughout and as a result of the program. In the capstone experience, students select artifacts produced along with or as a result of course application assignments. These artifacts serve as the centerpiece of a culminating project that demonstrates competency in teaching.
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EDTT5313 - Instructional Practice and DeliveryCredits: 3
This course provides students an opportunity to study, reflect on, and develop their skills in instructional methods while applying and practicing these methods in secondary classrooms. Major topics include characteristics of effective, intentional teaching; student diversity and the ways in which teacher understanding of students impacts learning; instructional planning; the creation of effective lessons using a variety of approaches and technologies; classroom management; Response to Instruction (RTI); multiple forms of assessment, and the use of data-based decision making to improve instruction.
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EDTT5333 - Content Specific MethodologyCredits: 3
This course focuses on how to teach content effectively in today’s secondary schools. Emphasis is on an understanding of content specific methodologies, various learning theories, learning styles, multiple intelligences, and other research-based content delivery strategies to engage students and be effective in teaching adolescent learners. In addition, this course demonstrates how to use effective unit and lesson plan design that incorporates state standards, the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles, assessment techniques, and data-based decision making to improve teaching and learning.
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EDTT5353 - Adolescent Development and Learning ProcessCredits: 3
Students explore the needs and concerns of developing adolescents when part of a caring, respectful, and equitable classroom. This course prepares students to explore adolescent learning and development in terms of prior knowledge, interests, and experiences in and out of school and relationships formed with teachers and peers.
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EDTT5363 - Integrated Curriculum: Fine Arts, Technology, and WellnessCredits: 3
This course will focus on integrated curriculum for elementary teachers. Emphasis will be placed on content areas outside of the core elementary classroom content, including health and wellness, fine arts and technology. The course will address state and national standards in health and wellness, fine arts and technology as well as strategies to plan and implement activities that integrate these areas with instruction in core academic areas. Students will engage in 5-10 hours of field-based activities.
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EBUS5091 - Capstone Experience for Educational Business AdministrationCredits: 1
The Capstone Experience is designed for candidates to demonstrate and document the impact of their knowledge and competencies gained throughout, and as a result of, studies related to Educational Business Administration.
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EBUS5253 - Strategic Innovation and Educational EntrepreneurshipCredits: 3
In this course, students evaluate models, theories, and evidence-based best practices related to strategic management and innovation in educational entrepreneurship. Students learn the fundamentals of business planning and design, develop, and implement strategic models facilitating innovation and creativity to be used in diverse entrepreneurial endeavors.
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EBUS5263 - Innovative Learning EnvironmentsCredits: 3
Driven by organizational theory, this project-based course integrates aspects of sociology with adult learning theory to deliver on online option for staff or faculty development. Students identify a learning solution in response to an organizational problem. Utilizing research-based theories, principles, models, and practices, concepts related to application are tested to determine value and appropriate action.
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EBUS5401 - Introduction to Educational Business AdministrationCredits: 1
Students are prepared to appropriately apply philosophy and school business theories to the educational environment. By tracing the historic role of laws in education and government, students examine how a school culture is established through the organization’s vision, mission, and goals to optimize student learning. Transparency, ethics, inclusiveness, and equity play a vital part in understanding the importance of gaining buy-in and support from employees, boards, and community members.
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EBUS5413 - Operations and Facility ManagementCredits: 3
Based on the interdisciplinary study of business, operations, and facility management, this course effectively prepares students to coordinate people, budgets, infrastructure, logistics, spatial organization, purchasing, and other financial, material, and technological resources specific to educational settings. The concepts of operational efficiency, institutional resiliency, and contingency planning across departments is also explored to ensure academic continuity. The role of human resource management is considered with respect to communication, emergency planning, preparedness and recovery, environmental protection, property management, technology, and vendor management.
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EBUS5423 - Data Analytics and ReportingCredits: 3
This course assists students in gaining the knowledge, experience, and resources needed to appropriately analyze and report organizational data to ensure quality, equitable, and informed decisions. To efficiently manage organizational needs, students examine ways to use technology to maintain, and retrieve relevant data, and prepare various documents for the purpose of maximizing resources in a variety of educational settings.
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EBUS5433 - Law, Labor, and NegotiationsCredits: 3
This course establishes the legal foundation of public schooling by examining authority from constitutional through local governance. Issues related to school and public works law are examined in case studies focused on liabilities, disabilities, and facilities delivering educational services. This includes laws related to labor relationships and contract negotiations, and building and construction contracts.
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EBUS5443 - Risk ManagementCredits: 3
This course develops leaders in a wide range of educational and organizational settings, who can effectively forecast and evaluate financial risks challenging their institutions. To avoid or minimize risk in a proactive manner, students learn to utilize analysis, avoidance, minimization, or elimination of undesirable threats to protect present and future organizational interests. Through the identification, assessment, and prioritization of risks, students prepare to minimize, monitor, and control the probability and impact of negative events on an institution in a manner that does not detract from the institutional goals.
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EBUS5493 - Information SystemsCredits: 3
Using research, students acquire and utilize multiple resources designed to effectively and efficiently create, collect, filter, process, and distribute data through well-managed information systems. The course provides a solid foundation for maximizing available technological and organizational resources through the enhancement of operations and information systems support while also providing the knowledge, skills, and experience to administer such functions. This course further helps to prepare educational business leaders to successfully analyze and evaluate trends and best practices in information systems.
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EBUS5553 - Internship in Educational Business Administration (Optional)Credits: 3
The optional 300-hour internship is created for students in states requiring field-based experiences as a component of licensure. Guided by an approved mentor, interns apply theories and strategies to effectively perform the role, function, and responsibilities of a school business officer.
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EBUS5556 - Internship in Educational Business Administration (Optional)Credits: 6
The optional 600-hour internship is created for students in states requiring field-based experiences as a component of licensure. Guided by an approved mentor, interns apply theories and strategies to effectively perform the role, function, and responsibilities of a school business officer.
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LEAD6123 - Management of Financial ResourcesCredits: 3
Students will examine principles and concepts of finance at local, state, federal, and international levels; strategies for maximizing and obtaining financial resources and economic issues of the third sector.
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LEAD6143 - Strategic Operations Planning and InnovationCredits: 3
Students will design, develop, and implement models of strategic planning that exhibit innovation.
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LEAD6163 - Management of Human CapitalCredits: 3
The course emphasizes principles and practices of personnel administration, including recruitment, selection, evaluation, staff development, and employee relations. Students will evaluate best practices for working with volunteer boards, advisory councils, and external stakeholders.
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ED5191 - Capstone in Adult Education and TrainingCredits: 1
The Capstone Experience is designed for candidates to demonstrate and document the impact of their knowledge and competencies gained throughout and as a result of the M.Ed. Adult Education and Training program.
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EE5091 - Capstone Experience for Elementary EducationCredits: 1
The capstone experience provides an opportunity for students in the M.Ed. in Elementary Education program to demonstrate and document the impact of the knowledge and competencies gained throughout and as a result of the program. In the capstone experience, students select artifacts produced along with or as a result of course application assignments. These artifacts serve as the centerpiece of a culminating project that demonstrates competency.
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EL5023 - Instructional LeadershipCredits: 3
This course centers on the intersection of curriculum, instruction, and assessment strategies in improving learner outcomes through data-informed decision making. Specific emphasis is placed on collecting and analyzing different types of data, aligning instructional and assessment practices, leveraging high impact instructional strategies, leading professional learning, and auditing curriculum to ensure relevance to diverse learners.
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EL5033 - The Principal’s Role in Creating Successful SchoolsCredits: 3
This course focuses on examining the role of the principal as school leader and linking leadership skills to positive student outcomes. Topics include the principal’s responsibilities related to creating and living a shared mission and vision, establishing a positive school climate and culture, maintaining a safe and supportive environment, and demonstrating a high standard of professional ethics.
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EL5053 - Community Engagement, Outreach, and CollaborationCredits: 3
This course provides a foundation for the principal’s role in developing relationships among stakeholders in the school community, including students, families, school personnel, and the community at large, for the express goals of supporting student learning in an equitable environment. By examining research findings and best practices, students will explore family engagement, mutually beneficial community relationships, student advocacy, and communication strategies.
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EL5091 - Capstone Experience for Educational LeadershipCredits: 1
The Capstone Experience is designed for candidates to demonstrate and document the impact of their knowledge and competencies gained throughout and as a result of the Educational Leadership program.
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EL5113 - Educational Leadership Internship CompletionCredits: 3
This course is designed to assist students completing additional hours to meet licensure expectations. Additional internship hours must be completed within two years after final course enrollment.
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EL5123 - Equity-Centered LeadershipCredits: 3
This course focuses on diversity and inclusiveness as a guiding factor in the effectiveness of school leadership and instructional outcomes. Specific emphasis is placed on how to support teachers in using evidence-based instructional design models to assess and instruct students with diverse learning needs, including students at the elementary, middle, and secondary levels; students from varied demographic and socio-economic groups; and, students participating in needs-based programs such as special education, bilingual/ESL, gifted and talented, and career and technical education.
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EL5601 - Independent Study for Educational LeadershipCredits: 1
This course is an independent study of specific problems in the area of building and district leadership with emphasis on the principalship. This course may be repeated. In seeking permission to register in this course, the student will submit a proposed topic to the department chair. With an approved topic, the student will conduct an independent inquiry under the supervision of a faculty member. Work in EL5601 must be accomplished in a regular five-week session with all student products submitted through the learning management system. Through the student’s independent inquiry, the student will develop a product for review. Pre-requisite(s): Permission of the department chair.
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EL5602 - Independent Study for Educational LeadershipCredits: 2
This course is an independent study of specific problems in the area of building and district leadership with emphasis on the principalship. This course may be repeated. In seeking permission to register in this course, the student will submit a proposed topic to the department chair. With an approved topic, the student will conduct an independent inquiry under the supervision of a faculty member. Work in EL5601 must be accomplished in a regular five-week session with all student products submitted through the learning management system. Through the student’s independent inquiry, the student will develop a product for review. Pre-requisite(s): Permission of the department chair.
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EL5603 - Independent Study for Educational LeadershipCredits: 3
This course is an independent study of specific problems in the area of building and district leadership with emphasis on the principalship. This course may be repeated. In seeking permission to register in this course, the student will submit a proposed topic to the department chair. With an approved topic, the student will conduct an independent inquiry under the supervision of a faculty member. Work in EL5601 must be accomplished in a regular five-week session with all student products submitted through the learning management system. Through the student’s independent inquiry, the student will develop a product for review. Pre-requisite(s): Permission of the department chair.
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EL5623 - Developing TeachersCredits: 3
This course provides students with resource management strategies to identify the organizational needs of a school, leverage the unique strengths and talents of competent teachers, and build the instructional and leadership capacity of teams. Students also learn how to develop and implement assessment and evaluation strategies to document teacher performance and to guide decisions relevant to professional development and employment termination options.
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EL5653 - Professional Communities of PracticeCredits: 3
This course focuses on the identification and implementation of research-based strategies to develop vibrant and meaningful professional learning communities (PLCs) with the primary goal of increasing student achievement. Students will learn about the importance of developing a common professional language that can be used to identify and solve both school management and instructional challenges. In addition, students will use converging research evidence in identifying the characteristics of effective PLCs and common obstacles to establishing them. This course also provides a solid foundation for establishing structures and routines that make a thriving professional learning community possible.
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EL5703 - School ImprovementCredits: 3
This course prepares students to promote and influence change in their schools with a goal of improving instruction and school and student outcomes. Students explore research on school improvement strategies, structures, and processes, analyze leadership decisions and behaviors, and examine the implications of research, technology, and commonly used practices for managing organizational change. Students also use existing research and literature to uncover underlying assumptions about school reform efforts, to improve the accuracy of problem identification, issues of human and social capital, the need for professional learning, and the challenges of overcoming bureaucratic and cultural norms.
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EL5723 - Resource and Fiscal ManagementCredits: 3
This course identifies local, state, and federal sources for school funding and provides students with familiarity with state funding formulas and local budget guidelines. An emphasis is also placed on ensuring that aspiring leaders develop competencies essential to the allocation of resources toward teaching, learning, and school improvement priorities rather than simply monitoring facilities and accounts. Students will also have the opportunity to explore non-traditional funding sources such as grants, foundations, and community partnerships.
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EL5753 - Law and PolicyCredits: 3
This course focuses on legal and ethical dimensions of school leadership with an emphasis on resolving conflicts in the school community. Students analyze legal cases and ethical dilemmas that relate to the role and responsibilities of the leader tasked with creating and maintaining an educational environment that protects and nurtures equity, fairness, tolerance, and respect, particularly balancing the needs of special populations, families, and underserved students.
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EL5981 - Educational Leadership Internship Hours Completion
This course is designed to allow students to complete the required number of verified internship hours necessary to enroll in EL5983 (or other state-specific versions of the internship course) or for ACE graduates to document additional internship hours needed to meet state licensure requirements.
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EL5983 - Internship Experience for Educational LeadershipCredits: 3
This course provides candidates the opportunity to synthesize their completed internship experiences to demonstrate mastery of the responsibilities required of building-level leaders to promote the success and well-being of each student and adult in their school. Candidates will reflect on their growth and development as leaders and on how internship experiences enriched their professional skills and knowledge. Candidates will document their mastery of professional standards by demonstrating how they applied academic learning to practice in the internship to meet requirements for principal licensure.
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ELAZ5983 - Internship Experience for Educational Leadership (Arizona)Credits: 3
This course provides candidates the opportunity to synthesize their completed internship experiences to demonstrate mastery of the responsibilities required of building-level leaders to promote the success and well-being of each student and adult in their school. Candidates will reflect on their growth and development as leaders and on how internship experiences enriched their professional skills and knowledge. Candidates will document their mastery of professional standards by demonstrating how they applied academic learning to practice in the internship to meet requirements for principal licensure in Arizona.
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ELFL5983 - Internship Experience for Educational Leadership (Florida)Credits: 3
This course provides candidates the opportunity to synthesize their completed internship experiences to demonstrate mastery of the responsibilities required of building-level leaders to promote the success and well-being of each student and adult in their school. Candidates will reflect on their growth and development as leaders and on how internship experiences enriched their professional skills and knowledge. Candidates will document their mastery of professional standards by demonstrating how they applied academic learning to practice in the internship to meet requirements for principal licensure in Florida.
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ELIL5983 - Internship Experience for Educational Leadership (Illinois)Credits: 3
This course provides candidates the opportunity to synthesize their completed internship experiences to demonstrate mastery of the responsibilities required of building-level leaders to promote the success and well-being of each student and adult in their school. Candidates will reflect on their growth and development as leaders and on how internship experiences enriched their professional skills and knowledge. Candidates will document their mastery of professional standards by demonstrating how they applied academic learning to practice in the internship to meet requirements for principal licensure in Illinois.
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ELIN5983 - Internship Experience for Educational Leadership (Indiana)Credits: 3
This course provides candidates the opportunity to synthesize their completed internship experiences to demonstrate mastery of the responsibilities required of building-level leaders to promote the success and well-being of each student and adult in their school. Candidates will reflect on their growth and development as leaders and on how internship experiences enriched their professional skills and knowledge. Candidates will document their mastery of professional standards by demonstrating how they applied academic learning to practice in the internship to meet requirements for principal licensure in Indiana.
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ELOH5983 - Internship Experience for Educational Leadership (Ohio)Credits: 3
This course provides candidates the opportunity to synthesize their completed internship experiences to demonstrate mastery of the responsibilities required of building-level leaders to promote the success and well-being of each student and adult in their school. Candidates will reflect on their growth and development as leaders and on how internship experiences enriched their professional skills and knowledge. Candidates will document their mastery of professional standards by demonstrating how they applied academic learning to practice in the internship to meet requirements for principal licensure in Ohio.
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ELTX5000 - ELTX Practicum WorkspaceCredits: 0
This is a workspace for students enrolled in the M.Ed. in Educational Leadership (Texas) program or Texas Educational Leadership Certificate program to work collaboratively with the ACE faculty member who serves as their field supervisor. The workspace will be available to students from the time their Internship Placement Form is on record until their graduation or withdrawal from ACE.
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ELX5983 - Practicum Experience for Educational Leadership (Texas)Credits: 3
This course provides candidates the opportunity to synthesize their completed practicum experiences to demonstrate mastery of the responsibilities required of building-level leaders to promote the success and well-being of each student and adult in their school. Candidates will reflect on their growth and development as leaders and on how practicum experiences enriched their professional skills and knowledge. Candidates will document their mastery of professional standards by demonstrating how they applied academic learning to practice in the practicum to meet requirements for principal licensure in Texas.
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DL5013 - Engaging Diverse Learners in Digital EnvironmentsCredits: 3
This course examines the impact of technology on learning as well as how today’s student navigates a media-rich world. Topics include the human-computer interface, technology and the brain, diffusion of innovations, and connectivity through social media. The course considers trends and issues in educational technologies as well as research into the effects of technology on society.
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DL5023 - Empowering Digital Educators in Virtual EnvironmentsCredits: 3
This course uses a project-based approach in studying technology in education, best practices for classroom teachers, and strategies for professional development in light of emerging technologies. The course addresses 21st century standards for education, educators’ digital presence, cloud computing, and digital ethics.
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DL5103 - Designing Instruction for the Digital AgeCredits: 3
This course examines multiple approaches to teaching in the digital age including computer and web-based learning. The course considers game-based learning, interactive approaches, and best practices for technology as a tool for teaching and learning.
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ET5013 - Responsible Technological ChangeCredits: 3
Learners attain a broad overview of best practices in online learning processes, including an exploration of major theories and concepts, paradigm shifts, current trends, and issues in online and blended learning and virtual instruction. They consider diverse perspectives related to technological change and acquire best practices for connecting with students and their families and promoting student engagement, independence, and self-assessment. From the perspective of preparing students to be critical consumers of information and producers of knowledge, learners increase their knowledge of 21st century information literacy skills and strategies to prepare their students for participation in the global community. Ethical and legal practices, including those related to intellectual freedom, privacy, and adaptive and assistive services, are explored and applied in various contexts. Learners use their knowledge to design appropriate learning experiences, assess student readiness, provide opportunities for student self-assessment, and create and communicate learning objectives.
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ET5023 - Practices for Evaluating Technological ResourcesCredits: 3
In this course, learners investigate and use existing and emerging technologies to support content and instructional delivery, student learning and engagement, collaboration, and communication in online and blended environments. They demonstrate the ability to use a variety of tools, including those for information access and retrieval, to promote student learning and classroom/professional research and evaluation. Learners also analyze technological tools in their own workplaces, identify areas of need, and make recommendations for improvement based on costs and benefits. Learners demonstrate knowledge of the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and adaptive and assistive technologies to support effective virtual instruction for diverse student populations, including those with exceptionalities and English learners.
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ET5033 - Technology for Learning and AssessmentCredits: 3
In this course, learners apply fundamental concepts related to learning and assessment in online and blended environments, including continuous evaluation, formative and summative assessment, and alignment of assessment to student learning outcomes. Learners use and evaluate current and emerging technologies to improve learning and assessment in ways that ensure validity, reliability, and the security of student data. They are introduced to and use a variety of tools offering opportunities for the collection, tracking, and analysis of student achievement data. Learners then evaluate the ability of the technologies to support authentic and performance-based assessment in written assignments, simulations and games, individual and collaborative projects, and portfolios. Finally, learners link learning and assessment by developing a standards-based unit plan demonstrating the ability to clearly communicate assessment criteria, provide prompt and personalized feedback, monitor student progress, inform instruction, guide student management of coursework and resources, and develop interventions.
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ET5043 - Technology Curriculum and PlanningCredits: 3
Using principles, theories, and models of curriculum design, students build an evidence-based, technology-integrated curriculum unit appropriate to the learning environment and audience. After conducting an analysis of current practices, students construct a curriculum plan that promotes the integration of technology skills into the learning process, demonstrates the ability to differentiate instruction, and supports the needs of diverse learners. Additionally, students identify the supportive role of the technology leader in helping all learners to demonstrate competency. Students will analyze digital equity issues and explore strategies for mitigating them.
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ET5053 - Design of Learning EnvironmentsCredits: 3
Learners apply psychological theories and instructional design models and principles to a continuum of learning environments, including face-to-face, blended, and online. They demonstrate the ability to manage and adapt learning experiences and instruction to each environment by emphasizing inclusion and collaboration, identifying and analyzing learners and learning tasks, goals, objectives, and assessments. Learners develop products in which they establish learning expectations, promote student-instructor and student-instructor interactions, determine instructional strategies and appropriate materials, and design formative and summative evaluations. Cybersecurity and cyberbullying are addressed within the context of effective learning environments.
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ET5063 - Creating Professional Environments in a Virtual WorldCredits: 3
Applying principles of instructional design and adult learning, learners demonstrate a broad understanding of their professional environment by developing products to support continuous professional growth within the organization. Learners identify and evaluate technologies to facilitate and improve collaboration, productivity, communication, and instruction for all organizational stakeholders. They also design a professional development plan based on best practices and emphasizing legal and ethical guidelines specific to blended and online learning environments. Within the context of professional environments, academic integrity and dishonesty, personal and professional learning networks, and digital citizenship are major topics.
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ET5073 - Educational Technology PlanningCredits: 3
This course prepares learners to plan for effective and engaging instruction or training. Through evaluating a current technology plan and performing a needs assessment, learners will develop a technology plan that meets the identified needs of their organization. Learners will conduct research to find and prepare a grant application to support their technology plan.
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ET5081 - Certificate Capstone in Virtual InstructionCredits: 1
The Certificate Capstone is designed for candidates to demonstrate and document the impact of their knowledge and competencies gained throughout, and as a result of the Certificate in Virtual Instruction.
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ET5083 - Instructional Technology Systems ManagementCredits: 3
Learners will become proficient in researching and evaluating networks, hardware, and software commonly used in instructional settings. Learners will investigate and share issues related to planning, purchasing, and integrating new systems and supporting existing systems. Operating systems maintenance and troubleshooting strategies will be explored in the context of developing an instructional manual and training for a technology management team. Security concerns related to identity protection and filtering will also be explored.
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ET5091 - Capstone Experience for Educational TechnologyCredits: 1
The Capstone Experience is designed for candidates to demonstrate and document the impact of their knowledge and competencies gained throughout and as a result of this Educational Technology the program. It does this by having candidates provide specific artifacts produced along with or as a result of their courses’ application assignments. Candidates align their work with the National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) for Educational Technology Facilitators as established by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) in collaboration with the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE). Opportunities to use technology in synthesizing and reflecting upon their learning and future are also provided, culminating in students’ construction of their own online electronic portfolio to provide a highly personalized framework for their planning and professional documentation beyond graduation.
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ET5801 - Independent Study for Educational TechnologyCredits: 1
This course is an independent study of specific problems in the field of technology. May be repeated. In seeking permission to register in this course, the student will submit a proposed topic to the department chair. With an approved topic, the student will conduct an independent inquiry under the supervision of a faculty member. Work in ET5801 must be accomplished in a regular five-week session with all student products submitted through the learning management system. Through the student’s independent inquiry, the student will develop a product for review. Pre-requisite(s): Permission of the department chair.
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ET5802 - Independent Study for Educational TechnologyCredits: 2
This course is an independent study of specific problems in the field of technology. May be repeated. In seeking permission to register in this course, the student will submit a proposed topic to the department chair. With an approved topic, the student will conduct an independent inquiry under the supervision of a faculty member. Work in ET5802 must be accomplished in a regular five-week session with all student products submitted through the learning management system. Through the student’s independent inquiry, the student will develop a product for review. Pre-requisite(s): Permission of the department chair.
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ET5803 - Independent Study for Educational TechnologyCredits: 3
This course is an independent study of specific problems in the field of technology. May be repeated. In seeking permission to register in this course, the student will submit a proposed topic to the department chair. With an approved topic, the student will conduct an independent inquiry under the supervision of a faculty member. Work in ET5803 must be accomplished in a regular five-week session with all student products submitted through the learning management system. Through the student’s independent inquiry, the student will develop a product for review. Pre-requisite(s): Permission of the department chair.
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ORG6213 - Emerging Technology in OrganizationsCredits: 3
Students will design, implement, and assess examples of programs that apply emerging technology. The course will focus on issues associated with the interface of technology and people.
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TECH5103 - Online Learning and TeachingCredits: 3
Students will compare theories of teaching and learning with applications to online instruction. Content includes emerging technology and use of Open Educational Resources.
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TECH5113 - Creating Online Collaboration and CommunitiesCredits: 3
Students will critique research on social presence and best practices for connecting online with students or colleagues, as well as best practices for social media use within education organizations.
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TECH5133 - Online Teaching and AssessmentCredits: 3
Students will demonstrate effective online teaching and assessment; analyze and compare Learning Management Systems; and advocate for professional organizations which provide continuing development for online educators.
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TECH6303 - Digital Teaching & LearningCredits: 3
Students will compare theories of teaching and learning with applications to digital instruction. Content includes emerging technology and use of Open Educational Resources.
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TECH6313 - Creating Digital Collaboration and CommunitiesCredits: 3
Students will critique research on social presence and best practices for connecting through using technology with students or colleagues, as well as best practices for social media use within education organizations.
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TECH6333 - Digital Assessment & InstructionCredits: 3
Students will analyze effective online teaching and assessment; evaluate and recommend Learning Management Systems; and advocate for professional organizations, which provide continuing development for online educators.
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TECH6353 - Capstone in Online EducationCredits: 3
The Capstone Experience is designed for candidates to demonstrate and document the impact of their knowledge and competencies gained throughout and as a result of the doctoral focus of study in online education. Students create a professional portfolio based on work created during their program to highlight mastery of specific academic outcomes and demonstrate the impact of the focus of study on the professional field.
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TECH6363 - Technology Use in Educational EnvironmentCredits: 3
Hardware and software use in an educational environment. Students will research various hardware and software that is available for Instructional Technology. They will see how it can impact their lessons. They will then use these opportunities to differentiate instruction including accessibility for all.
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TECH6373 - Foundations in Instructional TechnologyCredits: 3
Foundations in Educational/Instructional Technology. Students will research leaders past and present. They investigate what they have contributed to the field and how it has grown over the past 2 decades. Students will also look into the future to see what could be on the horizon.
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TECH6383 - Exploration of Resources in Instructional TechnologyCredits: 3
Students will explore the various realms of social media, streaming, virtual reality, handheld devices, and apps that help the field of Instructional Technology.
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