7000

Course explores strategies and specific inteventions to assist professionals in school settings. Emphasis is placed on remediation of academic areas, cognitive processes, and behavioral deficits.

An introduction to the field of school psychology, including its history, the roles and functions of school psychologists, professional issues, and ethics and law for school psychologists.

An advanced diagnostic course which focuses on the assessment and diagnoses of exceptional children. Specific diagnostic populations include mentally retarded, learning disabled, emotionally disturbed and gifted children. Attention is also given to low incidence handicaps such as vision impaired, hearing impaired, multiple handicapped, etc.

Principles and methods of performing individual psychological evaluations of school-age children and youth. Administering, scoring, and interpreting Wechsler Intelligence Scales, Stanford Binet, and other assessment instruments.

Provides applied learning for the administration, scoring and interpretation of behavioral and personality measures, such as parent teacher child interviews, youth self-report measures, standardized rating scales, and projective techniques. Encompasses written and oral reports to integrate results relevant to psychological services in educational settings; for example, identification of emotional handicaps, intervention planning and crisIs intervention.

Examines the counseling process, instruction and practice in communication skills in counseling, history, development, and practice of counseling as a profession, and how and where counseling is provided.

Psychological testing theory, clinical and practical aspects of individual test administration, educational and clinical diagnosis, interpretation, and non-discriminatory and controversial issues in testing.

Overview of common statistical techniques used in educational research, including univariate and bivariate descriptive statistics, chi square, and linear regression.

Examination of federal and state statues, agencies, and court decisions in education; including administrative and teacher rights, responsibilities, relationships, and liabilities.

Concepts and techniques involved in the analysis and interpretation of clinical and research data. Lecture and laboratory descriptive and inferential statistics. Major topics included correlation and regression, test of significance, and introduction to analysis of variance. Both parametric and non-parametric approaches are covered. Prerequisite: EDC 7152.

Legal issues and challenges facing the field of Special Education with emphasis on topics such as non-biased assessment, mainstreaming, non-categorical vs. categorical special education, effects of labeling multicultural, special education, and evaluation programs for the school psychologist. Additionally, includes the special education referral and delivery system according to the law, individual education plans and legislation affecting special education.

Concepts and practice of consultation in a variety of settings, including child-centered, teacher-centered and system-centered techniques.

This course will examine issues in the assessment of bilingual students, including the appropriate use of standardized measures, non-discriminatory assessments, alternative approaches to the assessment of cognitive functioning, and social adaptive behavior of linguistically diverse students. Students will learn when and how to conduct evaluations in the child's first and/or second language. Student will administer tests, make case presentations and write reports.

Provides an in-depth review of major learning theories with an emphasis on how this impacts the practice of school psychology. Course explores learning processes, historical perspectives of learning theory and examines relationships that exist between learning theory and educational and psychological practices.

Students spend 200 hours each in a school setting working with a school psychologist practicing academic and alternative testing procedures and report writing. Prerequisite EDC 7122/8222.

Students spend 200 hours each in a school setting working with a school psychologist practicing personality, behavior, social, and emotional testing procedures and report writing.

Overview of the field of educational technology in a variety of organizational settings.  Examines the role of the educational technology professional in various organizational models. Introduces requirements of the program.

Course explores foundational elements required for study of educational technology, such as the history of educational technologies and their implementation worldwide, learning theories and their relationship to educational technology implementation, learning technologies terminology, and the relationships between learning technologies and power and privilege.

Students engage in a learning technologies project that applies their learning in a school, business, or organizational setting.  Students must complete 40 hours of supervised work per credit, develop at least one artifact for inclusion in their Personal Portfolio that results from the practicum experience, and reflect on the experience (in writing or via another creative form approved by the instructor) in their Personal Portfolio. May lay groundwork for an applied project in EDF 8503 Master's Research Project, but must be independent of that project.  Approval required before practicum begins.

Course explores challenges of teachers in evaluating the needs of individual students in the diverse and inclusive classroom. Students will explore innovative possibilities for differentiating instruction to enhance learning for all students.

Integration of educational theories and methods of instructional management through paradigms of individual and organizational motivation and development. Incorporation of education psychology learning principles through personal inventory, and in-depth study into teacher-teaching and student-learning styles and their applicability to organizations. Introduction of organizational management and organizational assessment models, especially as they apply to principles of educational law. 

Focus of this course is on application of curriculum theory to classroom practice. Topics include historical roots of current curriculum issues and practices, changing concepts, curriculum conflicts, curriculum reform and reconstruction, as well as curriculum research and improvement.

This course investigates the background and current status of assessment principles, purposes, and procedures used to evaluate curriculum and gauge pupil progress. Emphasis will be on effective interpretation of evaluative data and methods of recording and reporting progress.

Course explores the integration of current theories of curriculum design with state content standards in the planning of mathematics, language arts, science, and social studies instruction in the classroom.

Examination of the dynamics of grief, loss, and trauma and the role of the counselor in elementary, secondary, and community college settings in supporting students who have experienced loss or trauma.

This course explores the history, current landscape, and future of gamification in teaching and learning for all ages and abilities. Students discuss learning theory as it applies to games, simulations, and virtual environments in teaching and learning. Additional topics including methods for evaluation of their effectiveness, potential ethical dilemmas, and socio-cultural ramifications of gamification of learning.

Course explores the impact and implementation of learning technologies outside of the United States. Students examine the promises and challenges of educational technologies worldwide as well as the perspectives of those critical of educational technology. Students learn about inequalities and ethics surrounding educational technologies and educational technology implementations around the world.

Study of social, cultural and gender differences and issues related to counseling clients with various backgrounds, beliefs and concerns. Includes multicultural counseling techniques.

Includes topics of investigation and study designed around special theories, practices or interests in the field of education.

Develops knowledge and skills leading to identification and description of conflicts in an educational setting. Includes application of conflict resolution techniques and other communication approaches with students, parents and school personnel. Cross listed with HRC 7961

Course offers a historical overview of instructional technology. Students explore different applications of technology ranging from primary grades through higher education. Techniques in determining learning needs, application of technology in meeting student needs and outcome evaluation in using technology are reviewed.

Course focuses on contemporary theoretical insights, research, and practices relating to the development and implementation of distance learning. Topics include application of current and accessible technology, wireless networking, and Internet use within a variety of academic situations and environments

Administrative planning, management and implementation of technology-enhanced educational programs are explored. Students will examine legal and ethical parameters governing the use of technology in instruction; demonstrate skills in facilitating multimedia production by students and teachers; apply designing principles to multimedia design; and develop evaluation methods to determine instructional effectiveness.

Course explores the use of technology in public and private schools from grades K - 12. Study use of the Internet and World Wide NET to examine instructional theory and application between students of another county, state or nation in providing more global perspectives in facilitating learning.

Course explores emerging topics and trends in learning technologies, including technologies not originally designed for teaching and learning but that can be leveraged for this purpose.  Students explore use-cases for new technologies, examine and develop frameworks for evaluating new technologies and their relevance for the needs of their learners, and explore means for staying abreast of the ever-changing world of learning technologies.

Course examines the planning, implementation, and assessment of resources and instructional techniques for middle and high school students.  Topics include assessing readability of materials, guiding English language arts skills, facilitating vocabulary, comprehension, study skills, and integration across the disciplines.  Field experience based course in a classroom setting.

Examines the policies, practices, and strategies in school and community relations. Topics include public information techniques and procedures.

Surveys the field of curriculum theory and organizational frameworks for current practices in curriculum development and evaluation, as well as curriculum revision and change.

Explores the principal's role and responsibilities as related to organizational development, information systems, faculty and staff selection, orientation supervision and evaluation, curriculum development and implementation, scheduling, budgeting, and plant/facilities use.

Covers the economics of school finance relating to theories and principles of taxation, reimbursement, financial planning and budgeting; governmental impact, court intervention and the effects on public and non-public schools. Practical applications using local school district situations will be considered when possible.

Course examines the format and alignment of ELL Proficiency Standards to the Arizona Language Arts Academic Standards in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Other topics include the legal, historical, and educational reasons for SEI.

Focus on tools and techniques used in life planning and career development for elementary and high school students.

Study of theories of group counseling and techniques of observation, assessment and leadership in therapeutic groups.