• EDUC 6640: High Ability Curriculum and Instruction in the Content Areas

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): Admission to Master of Education program. Prepares teachers of gifted and talented students with the selection, adaptation, creation, and implementation of differentiated instructional models and strategies, especially those related to fostering creativity. Evaluates current research on outcomes from instruction based on creative processes that are designed to foster creative, critical, and analytic thinking. Requires15 field experience/practicum hours in addition to class time.
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• EDUC 6660: Reading Assessments and Instructional Interventions

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): Admission to Graduate Status, Admission to the School of Education Masters Degree Program, Or permission of the Dean. Focuses on curriculum-based measurement, the assessment/instructional cycle, and how to use assessment data to design and implement instructional interventions to increase students' reading achievement. Studies the four federal assessment categories: screening, progress monitoring, diagnosis, and outcomes, as well as assessment instruments within the various categories and the 3-tiered model. Focuses on building students' oral language and background knowledge, teaching alphabet knowledge and phonemic awareness, teaching students to use and recognize and use common phonic spelling patterns, building vocabulary, increasing fluency, teaching students to apply comprehension strategies, and fostering students reading engagement. Describes reading assessments and interventions that are appropriate at the primary, intermediate, and secondary levels.
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• EDUC 6661: Literacy and Cognition of Reading

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): Admission to Graduate Status, Admission to the School of Education Masters Degree Program, Or permission of the Dean. Provides foundational knowledge about literacy instruction, including an historical perspective on reading instruction, an introduction to theories and models of literacy acquisition, a study of language systems and language acquisition, and theories related to the literacy development of people across the lifespan and their instructional implications. Includes the debates and various stances of reading researchers, and the instructional directives that grew out of the research.
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• EDUC 6662: Early Literacy Instruction

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): Admission to Graduate Status, Admission to the School of Education Masters Degree Program, Or permission of the Dean. Designed to help students understand the history, major perspectives and theories about how young children understand literacy. Focuses on developmentally appropriate instruction and the value of play relating to oral and print literacy in kindergarten and the primary grades. Examines literacy development within the larger framework of the communicative arts, i.e., oracy, written expression, reading, spelling, handwriting, listening, the visual and performing arts, and the social community, i.e., family, socioeconomic conditions, culture, ethnicity, language, etc.
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• EDUC 6663: Content Area Reading

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): Admission to Graduate Status, Admission to the School of Education Masters Degree Program, Or permission of the Dean. Designed to help practicing teachers develop an in-depth understanding of the research findings, issues, principles and practices related to exemplary, research-based reading and writing instruction in the content areas. Covers the use of textbooks and nonfiction reading materials for young students who are beginning readers and writers. Focuses on how to assist all learners to read, understand and learn from nonfiction reading materials. Covers assisting students at all grade levels in their reading of materials and writing of text related to science, social studies, history, math art, music, etc.
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• EDUC 6664: Adolescent Literacy

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): Admission to Graduate Status, Admission to the School of Education Masters Degree Program, Or permission of the Dean. Provides practicing secondary teachers with concepts, models, and strategies to support adolescent literacy instruction. Familiarizes teachers with practical constructs for understanding adolescent literacy, its importance, how it can be fostered and employed for student learning, how the challenges of adolescent literacy differ from the challenges of early reading instruction, and how systematic interventions can help remediate chronic failure in literacy and learning. Teaches effective literacy improvement practices that can be realistically implemented in the context of secondary teachers' many demands.
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• EDUC 6665: Reading Comprehension Instruction

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): Admission to Graduate Status, Admission to the School of Education Masters Degree Program, Or permission of the Dean. Focuses on reading comprehension instruction as the essence of reading. Emphasizes the theoretical foundations that support comprehension such as schema theory and the construction-integration theory. Includes the following five research-supported strategies: activating prior knowledge, questioning, analyzing text structure, creating mental or visual images and summarizing. Teaches how to offer explicit teacher-led comprehension strategy instruction that will lead to helping their students coordinate a set of comprehension strategies. Teaches how to help students construct meaning through rich discussions and interactions around a variety of text structures and genres. Prepares teachers to provide scaffolded support including demonstrations, pictures, diagrams, and collaboration with other students.
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• EDUC 6666: Effective Writing Instruction

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): Admission to Graduate Status, Admission to the School of Education Masters Degree Program, Or permission of the Dean. Focuses on using effective strategies for teaching writing across the curriculum and for diverse populations. Teaches application of the writing process, writing workshop, and interactive writing procedures in the classroom. Covers the development of orthographic knowledge and how to assess student work using the Qualitative Spelling Inventory and the Six-Trait Writing Model.
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• EDUC 6750: Energy in Elementary STEM Education

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): Admission to Graduate Status; Admission to the School of Education Masters Degree Program; Or permission of the Dean or the instructor. Prepares teachers to teach English as a second language in U.S. public schools. Includes both theoretical and applied aspects of second language learning and teaching. Provides general and special educators and second language specialists techniques, activities, strategies and resources to plan instruction for English language learners (ELLs). Emphasizes oral language development, literacy and content-area instruction for teaching K-12 students.
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• EDUC 6760: Force in Elementary STEM Education

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Provides teachers with a deep and useful understanding of force and the nature of how students use concepts of force to make sense of phenomena across life, earth, and physical science. Explores the theory of and enhances teacher insights into: 1) how force, matter and energy interact, 2) the relationship of force to energy and interactions within fields, and 3) pedagogical content knowledge around teaching and learning about force. Also connects knowledge of concepts of force to practices in technology, engineering and mathematics, and engages participants in evaluating technology appropriate to elementary STEM instruction. Requires participants to make connections between current learning theories and methods of STEM instruction.
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