Course Descriptions
EDUC 9419B Administration of Athletics in High School
Course Description:
This course will provide students an opportunity to examine and practice relevant strategies and principles that enhance the skills of an athletic administrator. These strategies and principles will be delivered in this course for application in the field of administration of athletics.
Course Description:
The course focuses upon the principal’s role as leader in an elementary or high school organization. Problem and laboratory approaches will be applied to administrative activities in school settings. Process of leadership, student achievement, state and standardized assessments, conflict management, school budget, decision-making problem solving, school and district goal targeting, written and oral communication, special education, technology, school law, crisis management and group dynamics will be practiced and explored. Public relations with parents, communities and businesses will be covered. Evaluation of self and school personnel will be reviewed.
EDUC 9408A Visionary Leadership Seminar
Course Description:
The course design is for the student to use their vision in creating a project that utilizes their leadership skills at the organization’s site. Implementation and assessment of the project is to be ongoing throughout the course work. Completion of the project will reflect the student’s previous and learning of administrative leadership theories, strategies and practices. A typed research document is to be submitted reflecting the components of the project.
EDUC 9409B Practicum for Principals
Course Description:
The course focuses on supervised field practice (practicum) for K-12 principals. The practicum is designed to provide the student with the working experience of the duties and responsibilities of the K-12 principal. Observations, hands-on experiences and applications of administrative principles will be practiced. Participation in actual situations, in cooperation with various educational organizations, is required. The practicum will require a minimum of 150 clock hours.
EDUC 9403B Supervision of Instruction for Administrators
Course Description:
This course examines the strategies and develops the skills to supervise and evaluate instruction. The student will experience a variety of evaluation approaches utilized by school administrators to improve instruction of teachers. The course will also examine the relationship between teaching and learning, different theoretical paradigms of teaching and the context of teaching. Pre-conference, observation and post conference strategies will be demonstrated. Construction of alternative models to current practices in the supervision of teachers will be presented.
EDUC 9407B Legality of School Finance for Administrators
Course Description:
The course design will examine the current legal framework of American school finance. Areas to be explored are: state law, federal law, common law, court decisions, case law, and attorney general findings and students first law. School finance will include sources and types of funding, maintenance and operations, capitol, soft capitol, budgetary procedures at site and district level and politics of school funding.
EDUC 9406B Curriculum and Instruction for Administrators
Course Description:
The course focuses upon the administrator’s role as leader in curriculum and instruction. Processes in Curriculum Mapping and Alignment, Essential Elements of Instruction, Authentic Assessment, Professional Development, Current Trends in Instructional Practices and Action Research will be explored and practiced. Fundamentals of leadership will also be covered.
EDUC 9404B Issues and Trends in Educational Administration
Course Description:
This course will explore various political, sociologic and philosophical perspectives concerning issues in educational administration. Issues will relate to present day school administrative functions including a cross section analysis as it pertains to multi-level administrators and their responsibilities. Educational trends both past to present will also be studied and compared. The influence of societal trends and the impact on educational institutions will be discussed.
EDUC 9416B The Administrator’s Role in Marketing
Course Description:
The course will provide learning units regarding marketing procedures, practices, and policies as it pertains to a school administrator of a K-12 system. Participants will apply a marketing strategy to a school and monitor the results.
EDUC 9417B Educational Personnel Administration
Course Description:
The course will provide learning units regarding personnel procedures, practices, and policies as it pertains to certified and classified employees as an administrator. The Participants will develop multiple methods to conduct personnel functions.
EDUC 9418B The Principal’s Role in Improving Student Achievement
Course Description:
The course focuses upon the Principal’s role as leader in a K-12 school. Problem and laboratory approaches will be applied to principal activities in school settings. Process of school improvement will focus on the following: (1) developing common mission, (2) gathering baseline data, (3) techniques for data collection, (4) data analysis, (5) goal development, (6) action plans, and (7) implementation and monitoring results.
EDUC 9402B Practicum for Superintendent
Course Description:
The course focuses on supervised field practice (practicum) for K-12 superintendents. The practicum is designed to provide the student with the working experience of the duties and responsibilities of the K-12 superintendent. Observations, hands-on experiences and applications of administrative superintendent will be practiced. Participation in actual situations, in cooperation with various educational organizations, is required. The practicum will require a minimum of 150 clock hours.
Course Description:
The course focuses upon the superintendence’s role as leader in a K-12 school District. Problem and laboratory approaches will be applied to administrative activities in District settings. Process of leadership, student achievement, state and standardized assessments, conflict management, district budget, decision-making problem solving, district goal targeting, written and oral communication, special education, technology, school law, crisis management and group dynamics will be practiced and explored. Public relations with parents, communities and businesses will be covered. Evaluation of self and district personnel will be reviewed.
EDUC 9420B Introduction to the Education of the ESL Child
Course Description:
This is an introductory course in bilingual/multicultural/ESL education. It is designed to introduce teachers to issues in cultural diversity to serve in schools with culturally and linguistically diverse students.
The major goal of this class is to take a comprehensive look at research, policy, and effective practices in U.S. schools for students who are from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
EDUC 9421B Methods of Teaching the ESL Child
Course Description:
This is an introductory course in bilingual/multicultural/ESL education. This course will focus on methods of developing lesson plans in language arts, science, math, and social studies for the English Language Learner (ELL). Emphasis on components of curriculum content, teaching techniques, second language literacy, development and evaluation of teaching materials. It is also designed to introduce teachers to issues in cultural diversity by taking a comprehensive look at research, policy, and effective practices.
EDUC 9422B Methods of Coaching Football
Course Description:
This course will provide the student with learning units enabling students to effectively coach all aspects of football. Strategies, techniques, off season training, planning and organization, and all aspects of the successful development of an interscholastic program will be explored. Students will be exposed to expert coaches from the high school and college level throughout the course.
EDUC 9469B Adolescent Psychology of Coaching
Course Description:
This course will explore the theories of adolescent development, the biological and cognitive development, social, emotional, and personality development of adolescents as is relevant to coaching in youth sports. Adolescent problems will also be explored to develop an understanding of the young athletes.
Course Description:
This course will explore the Psychology of coaching interscholastic athletics. The mental preparation and motivation of coaching the adolescent athlete will be examined. The foundation of Adolescent Psychology with new concepts in imagery, stress management, psychic energy management and competitive burnout will be examined also. Research and presentations will provide practical modern applications to a variety of performance are achievement theories in Sport Psychology.
Course Description:
This course will emphasize research that supports the importance of systematic phonics within a language arts program. The student will review the research, apply the research to practical daily activities that can be used immediately, and learn how to assess student progress to create a balanced literacy program for developing and at-risk students. The student will develop a supplemental research-based systematic phonics instructional program as a major course of study.
EDUC 9481B Elementary Reading and Decoding
Course Description:
The course focuses on the application of theories, methods, and models of the teaching and learning processes of reading.
EDUC 9480B Practicum for Reading
Course Description:
The course focuses on the (practicum) practical application of current philosophical theories, methods, and models of assessment and instruction for the remediation of reading.
EDUC 9479B Diagnosis and Remediation of Reading
Course Description:
This course will focus on the administration, analysis and interpretation of informal diagnostic procedures. The use of assessment results will drive students’ remediation plans and instructional techniques to facilitate reading success.
EDUC 9465B Multicultural Children’s Literature
Course Description:
This course will use multicultural books to survey pluralism and linguistic diversity in American education. Students will analyze folk and modern literature, including application of literary criteria to these selections. Students will explore means of teaching using multicultural literature to encourage diverse learners and learning styles. Students will evaluate literature for its literary value as well as cultural acceptability.
EDUC 9405B Introduction to Administration
Course Description:
Introduction to Administration is designed to explore and analyze the responsibilities and demands of the school administrator. Areas of responsibilities to be explored: School Law, Conflict Management, Time Management, Organization, Leadership Skills, Communication, Finance, Teacher Evaluation, Personnel Issues, Safety, Scheduling, and Interviewing.
Students will be involved in role-plays, simulations, small group presentations, and conflict management micro-world scenarios.
EDUC 9437B School Law for Administrators
Course Description:
This course is design for the school administrator to examine the current legal framework of Arizona State law, court decisions, and attorney general rulings as it relates to schools and districts.
EDUC 9440B Administrative Leadership in Education
Course Description:
The course will provide learning units regarding administrative leadership to include: personal qualities, analysis, environmental and structural decisions, staffing, momentum forces, and sustainability.
EDUC 9471B Anatomy and Physiology of Athletic Coaching
Course Description:
The study of structure and function of the human body as it relates to athletic participation. Topics include the skeletal, muscular, nervous, circulatory, and respiratory systems and how they relate to weight training, exercise, and athletic movements. This is a basic course that will enable athletic coaches to better train and condition athletes as well as help prevent injury and provide safe participation in athletics.
EDUC 9478B Methods of Coaching
Course Description:
This course is designed to cover all the essential elements required for the Arizona Coaching Certificate. This course will provide learning units in the basic methods of: basic first aid, CPR, legal aspects of coaching, methodology, coaching pedagogy, nutrition and training.
EDUC 9476B Methods of Coaching Baseball
Course Description:
This course will provide the student with learning methods enabling students to effectively coach all aspects of baseball. Strategies, techniques, off season training, planning and organization, and all aspects of the successful development of an interscholastic program will be explored.
EDUC 9474B Methods of Coaching Basketball
Course Description:
This course will provide the student with learning methods enabling students to effectively coach all aspects of basketball. Strategies, techniques, off season training, planning and organization, and all aspects of the successful development of an interscholastic program will be explored.
EDUC 9473B Methods of Coaching Track and Field
Course Description:
This course will provide the student with learning methods enabling students to effectively coach all aspects of Track and Field. Strategies, techniques, off season training, planning and organization, and all aspects of the successful development of an interscholastic program will be explored.
EDUC 9477B Methods of Coaching Softball
Course Description:
This course will provide the student with learning methods enabling students to effectively coach all aspects of Softball. Strategies, techniques, off season training, planning and organization, and all aspects of the successful development of an interscholastic program will be explored.
EDUC 9472B Methods of Coaching Soccer
Course Description:
This course will provide the student with learning methods enabling students to effectively coach all aspects of Soccer. Strategies, techniques, off season training, planning and organization, and all aspects of the successful development of an interscholastic program will be explored.
EDUC 9467B Methods of Coaching Wrestling
Course Description:
This course will provide the student with learning methods enabling students to effectively coach all aspects of Wrestling. Strategies, techniques, off season training, planning and organization, and all aspects of the successful development of an interscholastic program will be explored.
EDUC 9475B Methods of Coaching Weight Training and Conditioning
Course Description:
This course will provide the student with learning methods enabling students to effectively coach all aspects of Weight Training and Conditioning. Strategies, techniques, off season training, planning and organization, and all aspects of the successful development of an interscholastic program will be explored.
EDUC 9470B Prevention and Treatment of Athletic Injuries
Course Description:
This course will provide learning units in all aspects of sports injury and prevention. CPR and First Aid certification will be completed by the students. Training and conditioning, theories, strategies and principles will be explored.
EDUC 9447B Teaching the Gifted Learner
Course Description:
This course explores definitions of giftedness, ways of identifying gifted students, and types of programs developed for this population. Issues in education of the gifted are identified and addressed and students are introduced to concepts that apply to the gifted endorsement. Strategies for meeting the needs of the gifted student in the regular classroom are included. Students will prepare appropriate curriculum units for gifted students.
EDUC 9445B Double Labels in Gifted Education
Course Description:
This course explores definitions of giftedness, learning disabled, ADD, ADHD, behavior disorders, blind, deaf, etc. from the view that gifted students are sometimes learning disabled, ADD, ADHD, behavior disordered, blind, deaf, etc. Specific ways to adapt classroom curriculum will be shared as well as ways to support students in moving beyond the limitations of these disabilities.
EDUC 9446B Effective Program Models for Gifted Education
Course Description:
This course provides students the opportunity to explore various delivery models for gifted education currently in use nation-wide. Models will be looked at carefully and critically and successful components will be identified. Models to be considered include consultant, self-contained gifted classrooms, clustering gifted students in regular classrooms, transporting gifted students to a central site, pull-out programs, acceleration of academic work, advanced placement, and Renzulli’s Schoolwide Enrichment Program.
EDUC 9442 Administrative Influence in Educational Administration
Course Description:
The course will provide learning units regarding administrative influence to include: reciprocation, commitment, social proof, liking, authority, and scarcity. The participant will learn to identify appropriate situations and apply the skills of influencing to direct an appropriate outcome as an administrator.
EDUC 9553B Culture, Community and School
Course Description:
This is an introductory course in bilingual/multicultural/ESL education. It is designed to increase teacher’s awareness of the many different cultural processes at work that we see in the lives of language minority students in our schools and communities. It is also designed to help teachers understand the factors that contribute in varying degrees to cultural identity; These factors are ethnicity, geographical region, national origin, social class, level of education, types of contact with other cultural groups, religion, gender and age.
Course Description:
This course includes practical application of theories, methods and techniques used in ESL and BLE classrooms and the ELL student.
EDUC 9419B Administration of Athletics in High School
Course Description:
This course will provide students an opportunity to examine and practice relevant strategies and principles that enhance the skills of an athletic administrator. These strategies and principles will be delivered in this course for application in the field of administration of athletics.
EDUC 9441B Hiring Processes and Systems for Administrators
Course Description:
The course will provide learning units regarding hiring procedures, practices, and policies as it pertains to certified and classified employees. Participants will apply these concepts in an educational field and report on outcomes as an administrator.
EDUC 9612B Introduction to Gifted Education
Course Description:
This course introduces classroom teachers to the concept of gifted education and the varieties of philosophies emerging from this discipline. Students learn Arizona State Guidelines for Gifted Programs and explore gifted endorsement as a possible next step in their professional careers. The responsibilities of classroom teachers and teachers of the gifted will be differentiated.
The class will explore appropriate identification procedures and effective gifted models, practices, standards, and assessment techniques. Major emphasis will be on when, where, and how specific tools might be used to support a student or students in expressing their gifts effectively in ways that benefit all of society.
EDUC 9632B Testing the ESL Student
Course Description:
Assessment plays a most complicated role in the education of English Language Learners (ELL). Assessment is also a key sensitive issue for underachieving culturally and linguistically diverse students who are proficient in English. This class will show how assessment serves to assist our students, how to assure us that all groups of students are receiving an equal education opportunity, how to identify areas of great need, and how to secure additional funding. We educators, teachers and administrators must understand assessment, keep informed of the constantly changing policy framework, and use assessment well to inform our practice.
EDUC 9630B Methods of Language Arts for the ESL Child
Course Description:
This is an introductory course in bilingual/multicultural/ESL education. This course will focus on methods of developing lesson plans in language arts for the English Language Learner (ELL). Emphasis on components of curriculum content, teaching techniques, second language literacy, development and evaluation of teaching materials. It is also designed to introduce teachers to issues in cultural diversity by taking a comprehensive look at research, policy, and effective practices. This class will open a window on classrooms in which English learners are actively involved in pursuing topics of their own choosing, using oral and written English to discuss and confer with classmates, read, write, report and share in the ongoing process of learning. Gradually, they advance their knowledge of English, expanding their discourse and refining their control of grammar, pronunciation, spelling, and mechanics.
EDUC 9512B Structured English Immersion Methods I (15 hour training)
Course Description:
This course will focus on Sheltered English Immersion (SEI) for the English Language Learner (ELL) in the content area classroom. Emphasis is on components of ELL Proficiency Standards, assessment, SEI foundations, and SEI strategies.
EDUC 9611B Structured English Immersion Methods II (45 hour training)
Course Description:
This course will focus on Sheltered English Immersion (SEI) for the English Language Learner (ELL) in the content area classroom. Emphasis is on the components of ELL Proficiency Standards, assessment, SEI foundations & strategies, and connection to home & parent support.
EDUC 9047D Creating a Drug and Supplement Prevention Program as a Coach
Course Description:
This course will provide the student with the opportunity to become aware and educated about drugs and supplements that student athletes are using for recreational use and to enhance their athletic performance.
EDUC 9046D Teaching Character Education as a Coach
Course Description:
This course will provide the students the opportunity to promote and improve ethical quality of the sports experience in our schools by managing personal and organizational decision making and behavior in the cultures of sports.
EDUC 9780B SEI 45 Hour Training
Course Description:
This course will focus on Sheltered English Immersion (SEI) for the English Language Learner (ELL) in the content area classroom. Emphasis is on components of ELL Proficiency Standards, Assessment, SEI Foundations & Strategies, and connection to home-school support. We educators, teachers and administrators must understand SEI instruction, keep informed of the constantly changing policy framework, and use standards, strategies, and assessment well to inform our practice.
EDUC 9857B Social and Emotional Needs of Gifted Students
Course Description:
This course will focus on the affective needs of gifted students by exploring research and material relevant to the social and emotional components of giftedness. Perfectionism, underachievement, depression and other issues commonly found within the gifted population will be explored in depth. Specific strategies for helping gifted students with these issues will be introduced and participants will develop a plan for integrating affective training into their daily classroom activities.
Course Description:
This class is an introductory course that provides school personnel with the words and phrases needed for oral and written communication with students and their families. This course also provides teachers and staff members the necessary techniques to communicate with the Spanish-speaking members of the school population regarding student progress, regardless of their fluency level. Emphasis will be given to report card comments, parent conferencing phrases, and telephone and note messages.
EDUC 9908A Conversational Spanish II
Course Description:
This class builds on Conversational Spanish I and explores different strategies and avenues adult learners could take to improve second language acquisition. This course also helps in the understanding of the advantages and disadvantages adults have learning a second language. It discusses what hurdles we need to overcome to be able to communicate in a different language. In addition, this course gives committed participants enough language ability to understand, and to make them understood in a variety of situations inside or outside the school setting, providing them the foundation needed for further study the language, the culture and its people.
Course Description:
This course entails the study of natural language in all its various social and cultural contexts and the implications for the language different student.
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