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Eligibility Criteria

High School Diploma, GED or equiv. International Education

Credit Hours

84 Hours

Course Duration

1 Year (Self-Paced) Program

Courses Offered

14

Courses Offered In ASSOCIATE TO BACHELORS DEGREE

  • Courses Name

  • Courses Description

  • Credit Hours

  • Basics of Teaching and Learning

  • Teaching is a profession that can yield something amazing when the right ideas and beliefs are implemented in the classroom. The purpose of this course is to induce you to the concept of teaching as a profession. The course presents various learning methods and role of Education in 21st Century.

  • 6 Credits

  • Teaching At Different Levels

  • The course introduces you to the concepts of differentiated instruction, differentiating planning, differentiated assessment and differentiated learning experiences. The course also includes grouping, differentiation, and enrichment of gifted children.

  • 6 Credits

  • Learning and Development

  • The course introduces you to the concepts of physical development, cognitive development, emotional and social development and physical and cognitive development. The course also presents tools for learning in real time and online learning activities.

  • 6 Credits

  • Foundations of Education

  • The purpose of this course is to enable you to think critically about contemporary education issues, so they can develop creative solutions to difficult problems. This will be accomplished by gaining an understanding of the history of these issues and problems.

  • 6 Credits

  • Philosophical Foundations of Education

  • This course explores the underlying principles and philosophical foundations of teaching and education and examines how teachers function on the basis of a set of assumptions and beliefs regarding what they teach, how they teach, and to what end they teach.

  • 6 Credits

  • Computers in Education

  • This course prepares educators to use, evaluate, and integrate a variety of computer-based programs into the classroom. The course also covers use of graphic tools in education, how technology is used to provide education to special children and issues and challenges of technology in education.

  • 6 Credits

  • Essentials of Educational Psychology

  • This course explains the cognitive, linguistic, personal, social, and moral development of individuals as well as individual and group differences. This lesson also describes behaviorist and social cognitive views of learning, intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, and informal and formal assessments.

  • 6 Credits

  • Teaching for Special Fields

  • The course teaching for special fields provides you with a comprehensive overview of major aspects of the field of special education. This course emphasizes how students with special needs can succeed in the general education classroom with the assistance of the teacher and other members of the team.

  • 6 Credits

  • Basics of Reading Problems

  • This course focuses on struggling students and emphasizing classroom-based, teacher-driven approaches to assessment and remediation. Expanded coverage of portfolio assessment, lexiles and guided reading levels, running records, and developmental spelling stages, emergent literacy assessments, assessing and teaching students with limited English proficiency is also included.

  • 6 Credits

  • Teaching and Learning Technology

  • This course guides you as you learn to become proficient at applying the computer to solve problems; to infuse the computer into the curriculum in order to help you do the same; and to integrate technology into their professional, academic, and personal lives in useful and meaningful ways.

  • 6 Credits

  • Current Issues in Teaching and Learning

  • This course offers you the foundations of education a perspective arguing American society has undergone a series of profound social, cultural, and political changes since 1960s that have redefined the meaning of teaching, learning, and schooling in a postmodern culture. It directs you toward most vital issues in contemporary education.

  • 6 Credits

  • Introduction to Elementary Reading Methods

  • This course offers the most current insight on thinking processes, on reading and writing as language, and on the importance of the affective domain. It provides an overview of phonemic awareness, phonics, and word recognition, decoding, reading comprehension and vocabulary.

  • 6 Credits

  • Introduction to Teaching and Learning

  • Designed to apply learning theory and principles to presentation of learning, this course shows how learning principles work in both animals and people. Throughout the course, you would learn how study of learning helps solve practical problems, impact of habituation and classical conditioning. Course explores human memory, its functions and processes.

  • 6 Credits

  • Foundations of Content Area Reading

  • Through this course you will gain a thorough understanding of the fundamental role that reading and writing play in content-area learning. The course offers step-by-step approaches to gauge student literacy, build vocabulary, and implement instruction that improves comprehension, encourages critical reading, supports writing for learning, and facilitates collaboration for literacy development.

  • 6 Credits
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Basics of teaching and learning

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Do i want to be a teacher?
    Developing as a professional.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Helping diverse learners succeed in today's classrooms.
    Changes in american society: their influences on today's schools.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Education in the united states: its historical roots.
    Educational philosophy: the intellectual foundations of american education.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The organization of american schools.
    Governance and finance: regulating and funding schools.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    School law: ethical and legal influences on teaching.
    The school curriculum.
    Creating productive learning environments.
    Instruction in american classrooms.
    Technology in american schools.

Teaching at different levels

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Education in a age of change.
    Becoming a professional educator.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Challenges of school reform.
    Profiles of today's learners.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Responding to diversity.
    Meeting the needs of exceptional learners.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The curriculum.
    Effective instruction.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Classroom management and discipline.
    Assessing learning.
    Social and philosophical perspectives.
    Historical influences.
    Influences of technology.
    Legal issues affecting learners and teachers.

Learning and development

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Literacy and learning
    Theoretical perspectives of literacy development
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Oral language development: foundation for literacy
    Signs of emergent literacy among infants and toddlers: observation and exploration
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Enhancing emergent literacy among infants and toddlers
    Signs of emergent literacy among preschoolers
    Enhancing emergent literacy among preschoolers
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Emergent literacy among kindergartners: signs, standards, and assessment
    Enhancing emergent literacy and beginning reading and writing in kindergartners
    Literacy instruction in first grade: becoming an independent reader and writer
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Literacy instruction in second and third grade: transitioning to fluent reading and writing
    Transitioning to fourth grade-reading and writing to learn

Foundations of Education

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Status of the profession
    Development of the profession
    The major philosophies
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The impact of educational theories on educational practice
    American education: european heritage and colonial experience
    American education: from revolution to the twentieth century
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Modern american education: from the progressive movement to the present
    School and society
    Responding to a diverse and multicultural society
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Students at risk
    Legal framework for the public schools
    Teachers, students, and the law
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Governance and financing of elementary and secondary schools
    The school curriculum: development and design
    Instructional practices in effective schools
    Education for the new millenium

Philosophical Foundations of Education

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Idealism and education
    Realism and education
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Eastern philosophy, religion, and education
    Pragmatism and education
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Reconstructionism and education
    Behaviorism and education
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Existentialism, phenomenology, and education
    Analytic philosophy and education
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Marxism and education
    Philosophy, education, and the challenge of postmodernism

Computers in Education

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Theoretical foundations
    Designing and planning technology-enhanced instruction
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Computers in the learning environment
    Digital technologies in the classroom
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Administrative software
    Academic software
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The internet and the world wide web
    Using the web for teaching and learning
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Audiovisual technologies
    Distance education: using technology to redefine the classroom
    Issues in implementing technology in schools
    Technology, teaching, and you

Essentials of Educational Psychology

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Introduction to educational psychology
    Learning, cognition, and memory
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Learning in context
    Higher-level cognitive processes
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Cognitive development
    Motivation and affect
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Personal and social development
    Instructional strategies
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Classroom management strategies
    Assessment

Teaching for special fields

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Overview of today's special education
    Ensuring progress in the general curriculum through universal design for learning andinclusion
    Today's multicultural, bilingual, and diverseschools
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Today's families and their partnerships with professionals
    Understanding students with learning disabilities
    Understanding students with communicationdisorders
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Understanding students with emotional or behavioral disorders
    Understanding students with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
    Understanding students with mental retardation
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Understanding students with severe and multiple disabilities
    Understanding students with autism
    Understanding students with physical disabilities and other health impairments
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Understanding students with traumatic brain injury
    Understanding students with hearing loss
    Understanding students with visual impairments
    Understanding students who are gifted and talented

Basics of Reading Problems

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Reading and its assessment.
    Assessment for internal audiences: on-going assessments.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Assessment for internal audiences: periodic in-depth assessments.
    Assessment for internal audiences: portfolio assessment.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Assessment for external audiences: formal measures.
    Emergent and beginning literacy.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Assessing and teaching developing readers.
    Mature readers and writers.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Adolescent students with reading problems.
    Strategies for teaching reading and writing to english language learners.
    Factors related to reading problems

Teaching and Learning Technology

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Learning and instruction
    Computer applications in education
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The impact of the computer on education
    Legal and ethical issues
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Learning about the computer
    Learning with graphics tools
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Learning with word processor tools
    Learning with spreadsheet tools
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Learning with database tools
    Learning with multimedia tools
    Learning with internet tools
    Internet applications in education

Current Issues in Teaching and Learning

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Introduction.
    Schools as cultural institutions.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Sustaining our culture and the goals of education.
    Education and american society.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Teachers in american society.
    Local and state involvement in american education.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Private education and religion in the united states.
    Immigration, education, and multiculturalism.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Childhood, adolescence and the family.
    Race and american education.
    Gender and education.
    The education of students with special needs.
    Textbooks and the curriculum.
    Media, computers, and education.

Introduction to Elementary Reading Methods

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Effective reading instruction: the teacher makes the difference
    Developing children and rsquo;s oral language
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Early reading instruction: teaching the essentials
    Phonics and word identification
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Developing children and rsquo;s reading fluency
    Increasing reading vocabulary
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Teaching reading comprehension
    Writing
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Assessment
    Programs and standards for reading instruction
    Effective reading instruction and organization in grades 4-8

Introduction to Teaching and Learning

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Do i want to be a teacher?
    Developing as a professional.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Helping diverse learners succeed in today's classrooms.
    Changes in american society: their influences on today's schools.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Education in the united states: its historical roots.
    Educational philosophy: the intellectual foundations of american education.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The organization of american schools.
    Governance and finance: regulating and funding schools.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    School law: ethical and legal influences on teaching.
    The school curriculum.
    Creating productive learning environments.
    Instruction in american classrooms.
    Technology in american schools.

Foundations of Content Area Reading

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Engaging cultures and literacies for learning
    Motivation to read content-area texts
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Inside the meaning construction zone: readers reading
    Assessing readers and their texts
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Developing vocabulary, concepts, and fluency for content area literacy
    Strategies to enhance comprehension
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Writing to assess, promote, and observe learning
    Critical reading of print and nonprint texts
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Collaborating for literacy and learning: group strategies
    Struggling readers and english learners: assessing their cognitive and cultural needs
    Designing literacy into academically diverse content area classesto promote understanding