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Upon
completion of this course, students should be able to do the following:
1.
Identify practical and intellectual reasons for studying human behavior.
2.
Apply Piaget’s and Vygotsky’s conception of cognitive development to the
process of education.
3.
Describe and illustrate procedures for enhancing moral development.
4.
Classify individual behavior into one of Erikson’s eight stages of
psychosocial development.
5.
Describe physical characteristics of children in different stages of
development and discuss their implication for teaching.
6.
Identify fundamental differences between behavioral and cognitive
approaches to learning behavior.
7.
Identify and understand different types of reinforcers, including
primary and secondary, positive and negative, social, token, and other
similar activities.
8.
Identify different procedures of behavior modification including the use
of prompting, chaining, and shaping techniques.
9.
Identify metacognitive models for teaching problem solving skills in the
domain of reading, social studies, and mathematics, as well as, in
general models.
10.
Describe the impact of four factors on the enhancement of
self-regulatory efficacy: goal setting, commitment, incentives, and
personal control.
11.
Describe Bloom’s taxonomy (mastery teaching/learning model) based on his
theory of school learning, including its characteristics and
effectiveness.
12.
Identify and write different kinds of objectives used in instructional
planning.
13.
Identify and describe basic and alternative assessments to measure
learning goals.
14.
Describe teacher behaviors that research has identified as those that
increase student achievement.
15.
Demonstrate procedures for interpreting and evaluating a set of test
scores.
16.
Use databases and spreadsheets to obtain, transfer, and manage data and
manage data files for education purposes.
17.
Use computers to run programs; access, generate and manipulate data, and
publish results.
18.
Understand effective verbal and non-verbal and media communication
techniques and use them to support all student learning.
19.
Understand how cultural and gender differences can affect communication
and learning in the classroom
20.
Relate the school field experience to expectations and outlook for a
career in education.
21.
Apply computers and related technologies to support instruction in
appropriate grade levels and subject areas
22.
Apply technology tools to enhance professional growth and productivity;
use technology in communicating, collaborating, conducting research, and
solving problems; promote equitable, ethical, and legal use of
technology resources.
23.
Use access to the Internet for capturing and incorporating information
24.
Use computer-based tools to create presentations
25.
Perform basic operating systems tasks, software functions, and minor
troubleshooting on the most current and available systems.
26.
Work with software program menus to load and install programs, open and
close application programs, and create and edit documents. |
