The following course descriptions are available. Please check the Class Schedule or contact the program for course availability for each semester:
C&T 4000 Disability in contexts
Professor Bejoian. For students preparing to be both general and special-education teachers. Exploration of the historical, legal, cultural, and social/emotional experiences and representations of the characteristics of people across the full range of disabilities. The course focuses on life contexts, including education, family (caregiver), employment, and independent living as well as life-span transitions. It draws on a wide range of interdisciplinary scholarship and ways of knowing.
Instructor: Lynne Bejoian
C&T 4123 Curriculum and Instruction in Elementary Education
Professors Hamre and Broderick. Permission required. An introduction to teaching, learning, and curriculum in elementary classrooms, including: learning processes, instructional planning, child observation and assessment, classroom management and environments, working in urban, diverse, and inclusive settings, and culture and community. The course emphasizes the relationship between theory and practice, and supports students in the development of self-analytic, reflective, and problem solving skills. Special fee: $100.
Instructor: Alicia Broderick
C&T 4124 Curriculum development in elementary education
Professors Hamre and Broderick. Permission required. Continuation and extension of C&T 4123, with an emphasis on curriculum theory, history, issues, standards, and the interrelationship of various instructional fields. Students work in teams to develop multi-grade/age curriculum.
Instructor: Alicia Broderick
C&T 4132 Learning and teaching in the primary reading/writing classroom
Professors Calkins and Siegel. Permission required. Examines principles of literacy learning in young children and introduces theories, practices, and materials for teaching reading/writing in primary grades.
Instructor: Lucy Calkins
C&T 4133 Learning and teaching in the intermediate reading/writing classroom
Professors Calkins and Siegel. Permission required. Examines strategies for teaching, organizing and assessing reading and writing in intermediate grades.
Instructor: Lucy Calkins
C&T 4143 Multicultural social studies in the elementary and middle school
Professors Hamre, Oyler and Quinn. Permission required. Teaching, learning, and curriculum development in social studies including a critical examination of content and methodology, current practices and issues, state, and professional standards. Materials fee: $20.
Instructor: Britt Hamre
C&T 4311 Advanced practicum--teaching students with disabilities
Professors Broderick, Hamre, Bejoian, and Oyler. Permission required. Part-time practicum in New York City schools, coupled with critical special education core classes. Co-requisites: C&T 5080, 5081, and 5905.
C&T 4726 Professional laboratory experiences/student teaching (year-long) in elementary education
Professors Broderick, Quinn, Hamre, Naraian,
C&T 5905 Seminar in learning disabilities and disability studies in education
Professor Broderick. Permission required. Students work in small groups under guidance on practical problems related to teacher-as-scholar practitioner, teacher-as-classroom researcher, and teacher-as-change agent. Emphasis on ethical practices for diverse learners. Special fee: $25.
Instructor: Alicia Broderick
MSTC 4040 Science in childhood education
This is an integrated lecture/laboratory course. This course provides an introduction to the creation of science curriculum and instruction that attends to current state and national standards. The course is based in constructivist perspectives and has as a goal the teaching of science well with all children.
Instructor: Janell Catlin
HBSS 4116 Health education for teachers
As part of teacher certification in New York and other states, students must be trained in the following health areas: reporting child abuse, instruction in alcohol and other drugs, and school violence prevention. This course satisfies these requirements and reviews theory and research on children's health and health behavior change. Students will learn how to develop health-related lesson plans and how to identify, prevent, or intervene on behalf of children at risk or presenting with social-emotional or physical health problems.
Instructor: Katherine Roberts
Oyler and staff. Permission required.Students must begin in the Fall term. Students engage in an intensive field placement under the sponsorship of a classroom teacher with supervision shared by the cooperating teacher and Teachers College staff members. The experience begins with a three-week practicum period, followed by a ten-week student teaching experience; students spend a minimum of 3 1/2 days in the classroom each week. Assignments to classrooms provide an emphasis on education for both younger and older children in a range of settings, including opportunities in the College's Professional Development Schools. Offered in conjunction with C&T 4123 and C&T 4124. Students applying to student teach must file a Declaration of Intention to Student Teach by May 15 prior to the Fall term.
MSTC 5010 Mathematics in the elementary school
No description available at this time.
Instructor: Bruce Vogeli