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College of Education 243 Ritter Hall, Degree Programs: Master
of Education and Doctor
of Education and Curriculum Instruction
and Technology in Education
Program Offerings: Educational Leadership
and Policy Studies Program Offerings: Urban Education Supervisory Certification
Program Psychological Studies
in Education Adult and Organizational
Development Counselling
Psychology Educational Psychology School Psychology Physical Education
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591. Practicum in Special Education. (6 s.h.) Prerequisite: Spec. Ed. 590, fall practicum for full-time students. For education majors or non-education majors who have completed 590. Temple will place students at a site. One-half day of practice teaching, five days each week for the full semester.
592. Practicum in Special Education. (6 s.h.) Prerequisite: Spec Ed. 590, Spring practicum for full-time students. Course description and prerequisites are the same as those for Special Ed. 591.
594. Practicum in Special Education. (6 s.h.) Full-time summer practicum. Temple provides the practicum site. Five full days (mornings and afternoons) of practice teaching each week for the full summer semester.
601. Seminar in Special Education. (3 s.h.) A seminar for advanced students to explore in-depth concepts involving persons with disabilities.
611. Total Inclusion Seminar. (3 s.h.) Course content focuses on inclusive practices in school, community, and employment settings for students with various degrees of disability.
642. Infants and Young Children with Disabilities: Issues, Theories, and Concepts. (3 s.h.) Provides the student with knowledge of how the development of children with disabilities aged 0-6 takes place. Examines major intervention models and the assessment of infants and young children with disabilities.
666. Inclusive School Practices. (3 s.h.) School restructuring efforts that are occurring nationwide are examined and established practices to accommodating students with a range of abilities are discussed.
711. Seminar in Special Education Research. (3 s.h.) Permission of the instructor required. A seminar on problems of research as applied to special education.
740-741. Seminar in Exceptionalities. (6 s.h.) Current trends, problems, and issues in special education, teacher education, research, and administration.
891. Internship in Administration and Supervision in Special Education. (3 or 6 s.h.) Prerequisite: permission of instructor. The student is assigned to an administrative experience with an administrator of special education. Specific competencies in administration and supervision are developed.
893. Internship in Research in Special Education. (6 s.h.) Prerequisites: completion of research concentration and permission of instructor. The student is assigned to participate in special education research in a university, agency, or school having ongoing research activity. A full-time position with on-the-job supervision by Temple staff.
989. Individual Problems in Special Education. (1-12 s.h.) Maximum credit, 12 semester hours. Open by permission of the instructor. Intended to meet the needs of students who desire to undertake an individual investigation.
997-998. Master's Thesis in Special Education (6 s.h.)
Language Education (LANG ED) 471. Reading Problems in the Secondary School. (3 s.h.) Three related components of reading are examined: language (i.e., printed English); key concepts (including special vocabularies); and critical thinking in the content areas (English, mathematics, science, and social studies). A special project is required.
583. Teaching Reading and Language Arts to Students with Special Needs. (3 s.h.) Focuses on alternatives in assessment strategies and teaching practices in classroom settings for students with special needs. Course highlights the needs of poor readers/writers, the learning disabled, and students with cultural and language differences.
620. Curriculum and Methods in Secondary English. (3 s.h.) Developed for the in-service teacher, this course examines and appraises theoretical models, content, methods, materials, and evaluative approaches for providing English instruction. Major emphasis is on having students (1) become current in the scholarly literature of this area and (2) gain skills in developing a student-centered curriculum based on learner needs and goals.
621. Teaching Composition in the Secondary Schools. (3 s.h.) Looks at four major aspects of teaching writing: writing as a cognitive process, the development of writing abilities, approaches to the teaching of writing, and evaluating writing. Attends both to writing reader-based prose such as exposition, argumentation, and persuasion and writer-based prose such as creative and journal writing.
622. Teaching Literature in the Secondary Schools. (3 s.h.) Designed for junior and senior high school teachers, the course focuses on theoretical framework, selection and organization of units of instruction, methods and materials appropriate for teaching literature. Attends to relating literature to learner needs, interests, and reading level.
651. Special Projects in English Education. (3 s.h.) Current topics of interest in the field of English Education.
654. Issues in English Education. (3 s.h.) Current issues and notable trends in English education.
683. Practicum: Introduction to Diagnosis. (3 s.h.) Prerequisite: Reading 583. A laboratory course, for matriculated students only, covering assessment and evaluation of the reading and language arts processes and abilities through a case-study approach. Competency is appraised by direct supervision of the administration and interpretation of informal and standardized measures of language development, aptitude and reading achievement, and by written diagnostic reports.
785-786. Instructional Practicum: Corrective/Remedial. (6 s.h.) Prerequisite: Reading 683. Instructional internship for matriculated students to teach children with reading disabilities. Supervised experiences are provided in specific techniques for the remediation of various types of reading disabilities. Meets daily for six weeks; second summer session only.
850-851. Seminar Practicum in Language Education. (3-6 s.h.) A two-semester program in current problems, trends, issues, and research in Language Education. Individualized reports on major topics: defining study, research, and field problems; developing strategies for solving them; writing dissertation proposals.
Mathematics and Science Education (MATH/SCI ED) 469. Special Projects in Mathematics Education. (1-6 s.h.) Individual study for advanced students and special students who need or see a need to develop specific written curricular materials or research projects under appropriate advisement.
470. The Teaching of Mathematics. (3 s.h.) Reexamination of the teaching process in the light of experience, theory, and technology, particularly, but not exclusively, in middle and secondary schools. Consideration given to different teaching styles, the use of models, games, computers, and other learning aids, to evaluation, and to such problems as motivation, underachievement, individualization, and affecting higher-level cognitive behavior.
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