Note: not all of the following list of courses are offered every year. Please consult the MSU Schedule of Courses for current academic year offerings.
| Course: TE 805 Learning Mathematics with Technology Credits: Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 3(3-0) Description: Current technologies for teaching and learning mathematics with understanding. Technology for multiple representations of mathematical ideas, modeling, and authentic learning environments. Psychological and mathematical perspectives on learning mathematics. Interdepartmental With: Counseling, Educational Psychology and Special Education Administered By: Counseling, Educational Psychology and Special Education Effective Dates: SPRING 2002 – Open |
| Course: TE 806 Learning Science with Technology Credits: Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 3(3-0) Description: Possibilities, ideas, and issues associated with teaching science with technology. How K-12 teachers use Internet resources (e.g. simulations, databases, communities) to facilitate science learning. Contemporary conceptual perspectives from educational psychology on important issues of learning. Interdepartmental With: Counseling, Educational Psychology and Special Education Administered By: Counseling, Educational Psychology and Special Education Effective Dates: SPRING 2002 – Open |
| Course: TE 807 Professional Development and Inquiry Credits: Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 3(3-0) Description: Teacher-centered inquiry through autobiography and documentation of self as learner. Relationship of personal research to classroom-based research. Application to practice. Effective Dates: SUMMER 2009 – Open |
| Course: TE 808 Inquiry into Classroom Teaching and Learning Semester: Fall of every year, Spring of every year, Summer of every year Credits: Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 3(3-0) Description: Alternative forms of classroom inquiry to improve teaching and learning of subject matter. Social context of teaching and learning, pedagogy, and teaching effects. Social and academic outcomes for diverse learners. Effective Dates: SUMMER 2009 – Open |
| Course: TE 810 History of American Education Credits: Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 3(3-0) Description: Social and intellectual history of educational ideals and institutions. Legacies of reform initiatives. Evolution of the education profession. Effective Dates: FALL 1992 – Open |
| Course: TE 811 Philosophical Inquiry and Contemporary Issues in EducationCredits: Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 3(3-0) Description: Philosophies of education. Analytic tools used for evaluating current educational goals, practices, issues, and reforms. Effective Dates: FALL 1992 – Open |
| Course: TE 812 Sociological Inquiry into EducationCredits: Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 3(3-0) Description: Relationships of educational organizations and practices to social structures and institutions. Effective Dates: FALL 1992 – Open |
| Course: TE 821 Race and Educational Policy in the United StatesCredits: Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 3(3-0) Description: Educational policy in relation to race in the United States. Efforts to promote equity through racially sensitive curricular and instructional practices. Effective Dates: FALL 2003 – Open |
| Course: TE 820 Power and Pluralism in School PracticeCredits: Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 3(3-0) Description: Connections between schools and diversity, inequality, and power in society. Genesis and consequences of school policies for diverse learners. Effective Dates: FALL 1992 – Open |
| Course: TE 822 Issues of Culture in Classroom and CurriculumCredits: Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 3(3-0) Description: Socio-cultural contexts and functions of schooling. Cultural diversity in education. Schools and classrooms as cultural systems. Students’ cultural backgrounds in relation to curriculum. Developing effective multicultural curricula for all students. Effective Dates: FALL 1992 – Open |
| Course: TE 823 Learning Communities and EquityCredits: Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 3(3-0) Description: Cooperative grouping and heterogeneous learning teams. Impact of learning communities on equity and on school curricula. Effective Dates: FALL 1992 – Open |
| Course: TE 825 Diverse Learners and Learning Subject MatterCredits: Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 3(3-0) Description: Multiple perspectives on teaching subject matter to diverse learners. Texts, curricula, and pedagogical approaches. Subject-specific issues related to classroom diversity. Effective Dates: FALL 1992 – Open |
| Course: TE 826 Evaluation of Educational Programs and PoliciesCredits: Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 3(3-0) Recommended Background: CEP 822 Description: Qualitative and quantitative methods to assess the effectiveness of public policies and resulting educational programs. Theory and practice of program evaluation. Interdepartmental With: Counseling, Educational Psychology and Special Education Administered By: Counseling, Educational Psychology and Special Education Effective Dates: FALL 1995 – Open |
| Course: TE 830 Designing Interdisciplinary CurriculaCredits: Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 3(3-0) Description: Historical and conceptual analyses of ways to design, organize, and integrate curricula across subject areas. Evaluation and application of criteria for planning and teaching interdisciplinary curricula. Effective Dates: FALL 1992 – Open |
| \Course: TE 831 Teaching School Subject Matter with TechnologyCredits: Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 3(3-0) Description: Uses of technologies in teaching subject matter to diverse learners. Critical perspectives on technologies in schools. Effective Dates: FALL 1992 – Open |
| Course: TE 835 Theory and Research on the Teaching of WritingCredits: Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 3(3-0) Description: Social, cognitive, and developmental perspectives on teaching writing. Implications for curriculum and instruction in middle and secondary schools. Semester Alias: TE 883D Effective Dates: FALL 2003 – Open |
| Course: TE 836 Awards and Classics of Children’s LiteratureCredits: Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 3(3-0) Recommended Background: TE 849 Description: Critical examination of literary classics and award books for children, including children’s responses to this literature. Semester Alias: TE 883B Effective Dates: FALL 2003 – Open |
| Course: TE 840 Proseminar I: Historical Bases of Literacy InstructionCredits: Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 3(3-0) Restrictions: Open only to graduate students in Literacy Instruction. Description: Relationships between language processes and schooling. Effective Dates: FALL 1992 – Open |
| Course: TE 841 Proseminar II: Psychological Bases of Literacy InstructionCredits: Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 3(3-0) Recommended Background: TE 840 Restrictions: Open only to graduate students in Literacy Instruction. Description: Psychological foundations of literacy instruction, including theories and models of reading and writing. Psychological processes, social and contextual factors, and text features relevant to literacy instruction. Effective Dates: FALL 1995 – Open |
| Course: TE 842 Advanced Methods of Elementary School ReadingCredits: Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 3(3-0) Description: Methods and materials for teaching developmental and content area reading in grades K-8. Effective Dates: SUMMER 2009 – Open |
| Course: TE 843 Reading, Writing, and Reasoning in Secondary School SubjectsCredits: Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 3(3-0) Description: Knowledge and methodology for teaching language, literacy, and thinking in selected secondary school subjects. Effective Dates: SUMMER 2009 – Open |
| Course: TE 844 Classroom Literacy AssessmentCredits: Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 3(3-0) Description: Knowledge and methodology about ongoing and summative types of classroom assessment in oral language, reading, and writing at the elementary and secondary levels. Effective Dates: SUMMER 2009 – Open |
| Course: TE 845 Language Diversity and Literacy InstructionCredits: Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 3(3-0) Recommended Background: One introductory linguistics course. Description: Acquisition of literacy in schools by language minority students and other learners with diverse backgrounds. Effective Dates: SUMMER 2009 – Open |
| Course: TE 846 Accommodating Differences in Literacy LearnersCredits: Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 3(3-0) Recommended Background: Access to two K-12 students for course requirement to conduct two case studies. Description: Developmental processes, instructional practices, and assessment principles that contribute to effective learning of reading and writing. Teaching methods for accommodating the different needs of individual literacy learners. Effective Dates: SUMMER 2007 – Open |
| Course: TE 847 Methods for Teaching Language ArtsCredits: Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 3(3-0) Description: Methods and materials for teaching listening, speaking, reading, and writing with emphasis on language development across the curriculum. Effective Dates: SUMMER 2009 – Open |
| Course: TE 848 Methods of Writing InstructionCredits: Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 3(3-0) Recommended Background: TE 847 Description: Rationale and methods for writing instruction from pre-writing through drafting and editing. Effective Dates: SUMMER 2009 – Open |
| Course: TE 849 Methods and Materials for Teaching Children’s and Adolescent LiteratureCredits: Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 3(3-0) Description: Evaluation and utilization of various genres and elements of literature with focus on literature for students in grades K-12. Effective Dates: SUMMER 2009 – Open |
| Course: TE 850 Critical Reading for Children and AdolescentsCredits: Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 3(3-0) Prerequisite: TE 849 Description: Teaching and learning of critical and aesthetic responses to literature for K-12 students. Effective Dates: SUMMER 2009 – Open |
| Course: TE 851 Literacy for the Young Child in Home and SchoolCredits: Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 3(3-0) Recommended Background: TE 849 Description: Literacy development in children from early infancy through age six, with emphasis on evaluation and utilization of writings for young children. Effective Dates: SUMMER 2009 – Open |
| Course: TE 853 Corrective and Remedial Literacy Instruction in the ClassroomCredits: Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 3(3-0) Description: Causes and correlates of individual differences in literacy abilities, especially among disabled readers and writers. Individualized reading diagnosis and corrective treatment plans and procedures for K-12 students and/or adult/alternative classes. Effective Dates: SPRING 2002 – Open |
| Course: TE 854 Clinical Literacy InstructionCredits: Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 3(3-0) Recommended Background: TE 843 Description: Clinical applications of corrective and remedial assessment and instruction for individuals with severe complex literacy problems. Assessment and treatment for students and/or adults with severe and complex reading/literacy and reading/literacy related difficulties. Effective Dates: SPRING 2002 – Open |
| Course: TE 855 Teaching School MathematicsCredits: Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 3(3-0) Recommended Background: Two undergraduate mathematics courses. Description: Methods, materials, activities, and content important to teaching mathematics. Emphasis on conceptual understanding of mathematical ideas. Implications for lesson development, teaching diverse learners, and evaluating student learning. Effective Dates: FALL 1992 – Open |
| Course: TE 856 Alternatives in School Mathematics CurriculumCredits: Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 3(3-0) Recommended Background: Two undergraduate mathematics courses. Description: Selection and appraisal of mathematics curricula. Uses of materials in the classroom. Representation of selected mathematical content for diverse learners. Effective Dates: FALL 1992 – Open |
| Course: TE 857 Teaching and Learning Mathematical Problem SolvingCredits: Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 3(3-0) Recommended Background: Two undergraduate mathematics courses. Description: Alternative approaches to solving mathematical problems and incorporating problem solving into K-12 teaching. Selection, appraisal, and uses of problems in the classroom. Materials and assessment strategies. Effective Dates: FALL 1992 – Open |
| Course: TE 860 Practice and Inquiry in Science EducationCredits: Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 3(3-0) Description: Teaching science subjects. Emphasis on learner diversity, learning community, conceptual understanding, subject matter content, and learners’ prior knowledge. Effective Dates: FALL 1992 – Open |
| Course: TE 861A Teaching Science for UnderstandingCredits: Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 3(3-0) Recommended Background: A teaching certificate with concentration in science teaching at elementary or secondary level. Enrollees should be teaching or otherwise have access to a classroom for the practical components of this course. Description: Responses to contemporary over-emphasis on memorization and coverage of content knowledge in science teaching. Theoretical knowledge, techniques, and practical skills necessary to teach science for understanding. Effective Dates: SPRING 2004 – Open |
| Course: TE 861B Inquiry, Nature of Science, and Science TeachingCredits: Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 3(3-0) Recommended Background: A teaching certificate with concentration in science teaching at elementary or secondary level. Enrollees should be teaching or otherwise have access to a classroom for the practical components of this course. Description: Inquiry and the nature of science as part of current science education reforms. Theoretical knowledge and practical skills for including inquiry and the nature of science in science instruction. Effective Dates: SPRING 2004 – Open |
| Course: TE 861C Action Research in K-12 Science and Mathematics ClassroomsCredits: Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 3(3-0) Prerequisite: (TE 861A or concurrently) or TE 861B Recommended Background: A teaching certificate with concentration in science teaching at elementary or secondary level. Enrollees should be teaching or otherwise have access to a classroom for the practical components of this course. Description: Philosophy and methods supporting action research in sciences and mathematics classrooms. Design and implementation of an action research project in student’s own setting. Analyzing, interpreting, and reporting project results. Reflection on study’s value. Effective Dates: SPRING 2004 – Open |
| Course: TE 865 Teaching and Learning K-12 Social StudiesCredits: Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 3(3-0) Description: Purposes for teaching and learning social studies. Developing citizenship, social science reasoning, and content knowledge with diverse learners. Effective Dates: SUMMER 2009 – Open |
| Course: TE 866 K-12 Social Studies CurriculumCredits: Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 3(3-0) Description: Issues and practices in social studies from historical, philosophical, and epistemological perspectives. Student diversity and the social studies curriculum. Reforms and needed research in social studies education. Effective Dates: FALL 1992 – Open |
| Course: TE 867 Perspectives in Social Studies: Global EducationCredits: Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 3(3-0) Description: Issues affecting the global community. Educational strategies for developing a global perspective on human relationships and the environment. Effective Dates: SUMMER 2005 – Open |
| Course: TE 868 Perspectives in Social Studies: Law-Related EducationCredits: Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 3(3-0) Description: Intellectual, social, and personal premises for law-related education. Strategies for curricular infusion. Effective Dates: FALL 1992 – Open |
| Course: TE 870 Curriculum Design, Development, and Deliberation in SchoolsCredits: Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 3(3-0) Prerequisite: (TE 807 or TE 808) and (TE 801 or TE 818) Description: Simulation in group curriculum deliberation. Critique of curriculum discourse, process, and product. Teachers’ roles in site-based curriculum and staff development. Effective Dates: SUMMER 2009 – Open |
| Course: TE 872 Teachers as Teacher EducatorsCredits: Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 3(3-0) Prerequisite: (TE 807 or TE 808) and (TE 801 or TE 818) Description: Experienced teachers’ contributions to the professional development of novice teachers. Implications for school change. Effective Dates: SUMMER 2009 – Open |
| Course: TE 873 Literacy LeadershipCredits: Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 3(3-0) Recommended Background: Nine credits in reading or language arts and classroom teaching experience. Description: Leadership roles for teachers in developing and improving literacy programs at preschool, K-12, college, and adult education levels. Assessing local needs in the context of national and state professional standards for literacy instruction. Maximizing use of resources. Evaluating programs and communicating evaluation results. Effective Dates: FALL 2003 – Open |
| Course: TE 877 Community LiteracyCredits: Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 3(3-0) Restrictions: Open only to doctoral students in the Rhetoric and Writing major or master’s students in the Digital Rhetoric and Professional Writing major or graduate students in the Department of English or College of Education. Description: Applied research in a community organization, non-profit agency, workplace, or school. Theories and designs of service learning pedagogies. Interdepartmental With: Arts and Letters Administered By: Arts and Letters Effective Dates: FALL 2005 – Open |
| Course: TE 879 Teaching College MathematicsCredits: Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 3(3-0) Reenrollment Information: A student may earn a maximum of 6 credits in all enrollments for this course. Recommended Background: Past or concurrent mathematics teaching experience. Description: Curriculum materials, case studies, approaches to teaching and student learning of particular mathematics topics. Interdepartmental With: Science and Mathematics Education, Counseling, Educational Psychology and Special Education, Mathematics Administered By: Science and Mathematics Education Effective Dates: SPRING 2006 – SUMMER 2009 |
| Course: TE 882 Seminars in Curriculum and TeachingCredits: Variable from 1 to 4 Reenrollment Information: A student may earn a maximum of 9 credits in all enrollments for this course. Description: Intensive study of selected topics in curriculum and teaching. Effective Dates: FALL 2002 – Open |
| Course: TE 883 Seminars in Literacy InstructionCredits: Variable from 1 to 4 Reenrollment Information: A student may earn a maximum of 9 credits in all enrollments for this course. Description: Intensive study of selected topics in literacy instruction. Effective Dates: SUMMER 2009 – Open |
| Course: TE 890 Independent StudyCredits: Variable from 1 to 6 Reenrollment Information: A student may earn a maximum of 9 credits in all enrollments for this course. Description: Supervised individual study in an area of curriculum, teaching, or schooling. Effective Dates: SUMMER 2004 – Open |
| Course: TE 891 Special Topics in Teaching, Curriculum, and SchoolingCredits: Variable from 1 to 4 Reenrollment Information: A student may earn a maximum of 15 credits in all enrollments for this course. Description: Current special topics in various fields of teacher education. Effective Dates: SUMMER 2003 – Open |
| Course: TE 891A Special Topics in Science EducationCredits: Variable from 1 to 4 Reenrollment Information: A student may earn a maximum of 9 credits in all enrollments for this course. Restrictions: Open to masters students or doctoral students. Description: Issues related to teaching K-12 school subjects to diverse learners. Effective Dates: FALL 1995 – Open |
| Course: TE 892 ESL Classroom Practice: K-12 Literacy InstructionCredits: Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 3(3-0) Corequisite: LLT 807 concurrently Description: Classroom management for the teaching of English as a second language in K-12 settings. Lesson planning and materials development. Adapting authentic materials. Microteaching. Effective Dates: SUMMER 2009 – Open |
| Course: TE 894 Laboratory and Field Experiences in Teaching, Curriculum, and SchoolingCredits: Variable from 1 to 6 Reenrollment Information: A student may earn a maximum of 9 credits in all enrollments for this course. Description: Supervised graduate practica and internships in curriculum, teaching, and schooling. Effective Dates: SUMMER 2009 – Open |
| Course: TE 895 Research EthicsCredits: Total Credits: 1 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 1 1(1-0) Restrictions: Open to graduate students. Description: Identifying and resolving ethical problems in research. Collegial interactions. Authorship, publication, and reviewing practices. Data management. Ownership of data and intellectual property. Conflicts of interest. Protection of human and animal subjects. Lab safety and compliance. Semester Alias: PES 895 Interdepartmental With: Kinesiology, Counseling, Educational Psychology and Special Education, Educational Administration Administered By: Kinesiology Effective Dates: FALL 2006 – Open |
| Course: TE 896 ESL Practicum: K-12Credits: Total Credits: 2 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 2 2(2-0) Prerequisite: TE 892 Description: Syllabus and lesson plan development for a four-week English as a second language field experience in a K-12 setting. Effective Dates: SUMMER 2009 – Open |