Education

Provides an opportunity to learn and utilize necessary skills for camping and outdoor recreation. Explores necessary equipment, orientation skills, basic first aid techniques, wilderness safety, wilderness survival, and environmental care. Course concepts are applied to physical education instruction.

This course explores the application of learning and performance of motor skills in a variety of activities. Dance, racquet sports, aquatics and track/field will be participatory and allow students to gain experiential opportunities with instruction, drill progression, strategies, equipment and facility preparation and reflection. Instructor and peer feedback will enhance this class, and allow tactical decision-making competencies.

This course covers the foundation for healthy habits and active lifestyles which are introduced and reinforced during the K-8 experience. Topics that build both self-esteem and character, along with experiential health and physical activities will be examined. The American Association for Health Education and the Maine Learning Results will be used in conjunction with curriculum guides as students design lessons and units in health education.

Works toward the program requirement of completing three 1-credit hour education practicum courses during the junior or senior years. Students spend 30 hours in regional schools. Under the direction of the practicing teachers, students may occasionally receive teaching assignments, for which lesson plans are produced. This course is taken by physical education majors concurrently with ED 446 and by Health majors with ED 215

This course is designed for students in the elementary/secondary education K – 12 programs. It is a general methods course for curriculum development and methods of instruction. This course focuses on the "what to teach", "how to teach", and Òplanning the context for teaching and learningÓ with the goal of providing an integrated approach in instruction. In our schools today, we are given the opportunities to interact with ALL students. In our preparation for instruction, we need to incorporate the idea of interventions (accommodations and modifications) in the design of instruction to teach all learners. This course ensures that pre-service teachers gain a broad knowledge in the methods of instruction as well as dealing with diversity in the classroom. This is a pre-requisite course to all methods courses in the elementary/secondary Education program. It can be taken concurrently with other methods courses or as approved by your advisor.

This is a three credit course designed to introduce various team sports, lead-up games and recreational games. Students will have direct involvement in instruction of the activities and the planning for instruction through the employment of the sport education model of learning. The Maine Learning Results and Performance Indicators will be required for all sport activities K-12.

An introductory course surveying the history and structure of the field of instructional technology, with an emphasis on integrating as an educational tool. Students will experience creative skills and confidence necessary to use mainstream and emerging hardware and software available in most school settings.

Presents comprehensive and balanced coverage of all aspects of assessment relevant to classroom teachers. Students learn to construct and use paper-and-pencil, alternative, and standardized assessments; analyze objectives; use grading systems; and judge assessment quality.

This course offers a hands-on practical approach that introduces students to a variety of strategies they can directly implement upon entering a position as a middle school and high school teacher of science. Concentrating on practical application rather than theoretical implications, students will refine and add to their repertoire of teaching strategies. Students will be engaged in the direct completion of project-based learning in the form of laboratory experiences, lesson building, and cooperative tasks.

In this course students will learn how to teach reading and writing genres with secondary students. Students will explore strategies and processes in the English Language Arts while connecting it to literacy across the curriculum that are part of teaching. Students will also cover elements of literacy in technology, accommodations and differentiated learning, assessment, selection of literature to serve purposes for reading and writing, issues in the secondary classroom, and models of instruction.