EDU 430: Organization and Administration of Public Schools. Explore basic principles of school administration. Emphasizes the role of teachers as leaders and managers in the classroom and as participants in the administration of schools. Overviews key topical issues in P-12 education and critiques instructional principles and strategies. Field and work required. (Merger of EDU 305 and EDU 409). Prerequisite: Admission to Teacher Education Program. Credit: 3 semester hours.
EDU 445: Teaching High School Reading in the Content Areas. A study of assessment, materials and methods for reading instruction in secondary schools with emphasis on improving reading in content areas. Prerequisite: Admission to Teacher Education Program. Credit: 3 semester hours.
EDU 454: Undergraduate Student Teaching. Undergraduate student teaching provides 70 days of full-time, unpaid, supervised, clinical practice in public schools, for candidates pursuing a bachelor degree form one of KSU's teacher education programs (TEPs). Individuals who have completed all coursework and required, standardized exams go through a formal application process for admission to student teaching. By Kentucky regulation, student teachers may not be employed by their schools in any way in any role, although they may be employed by a different school in a manner that does not interfere with fulfillment of student teaching responsibilities. Prerequisite: Complete all coursework and required, standardized exams and go through formal application process for admission to student teaching. Credit: 12 semester hours.
EDU 495: Post-Baccalaureate Capstone. This course is designed to be a culminating experience for teacher candidates who have worked on provisional or probationary certificates or in private schools. This course is not open to degree-seeking students. Grading is pass/fail. Credit: 12 semester hours.
EDUCATION – GRADUATE COURSES IN SPECIAL EDUCATION ESP 501: Special Topics in Education. This course is designed as a seminar course to accommodate a variety of professional development topics. Examples of topics are: PRAXIS II Preparation, Senate Bill I, and other Educational Reform Topics such as the Common Core Academic Standards. For participants in the School of Education and Human Development's Online Professional Development Center, Seminar credit may be aligned with Professional Development threads for academic credit that may be transferred into the degree program. For more information, log-on at education@kysu.edu. The student may enroll in this course up to three times under different topics. Credit: 1-3 semester hours.
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ESP 501: Special Topics in Education. This course is designed as a seminar course to accommodate a variety of professional development topics. Examples of topics are: PRAXIS II Preparation, Senate Bill I, and other Educational Reform Topics such as the Common Core Academic Standards. For participants in the School of Education and Human Development's Online Professional Development Center, Seminar credit may be aligned with Professional Development threads for academic credit that may be transferred into the degree program. For more information, log-on at education@kysu.edu. The student may enroll in this course up to three times under different topics. Credit: 1-3 semester hours.
ESP 502: Legal and Parental Issues in Special Education. This course reviews pertinent legislation concerning human and constitutional rights and parental issues related to special persons. Teachers' specific responsibilities and liabilities are described and related to current requirements for development of appropriate educational programs. Emphasis is given to how, through active parent participation, teachers can facilitate each student's developmental progress. The resources and methods for dealing with the problems confronted by parents of exceptional children are considered, field hours required. Credit: 3 semester hours.
ESP 504: Theories of Reading & Educational Practices P12. This course will concentrate on the best practices for teaching reading to students with learning and behavioral difficulties. Candidates will conduct research on literacy problems in the United States and examine reading approaches for students with reading difficulties. Understanding of best practice strategies for teaching of reading will be applied through a research paper project, field hours required. Credit: 3 semester hours.
ESP 505: Teaching Mathematics to Children and Youth with Learning & Behavior Disorders. The primary focus of this course is on teaching of mathematics to children and youth with learning and behavior disorders. The overall context in which these teaching approaches are considered are the national curricular reforms in mathematics. Clearly, this course primarily attends to the domains of pedagogy, pedagogy and its relationship to subject matter, curriculum, and pedagogical content knowledge. Given that, the learner must always be considered and that the general context of instruction in the school, the domains of the learners and schools are emphasized, however to a lesser degree in this course. Specific attention is provided in this course to the teaching that responds to the reform recommendations identified by National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) and higher standards in mathematics education present in KERA, field hours required. Credit: 3 semester hours.