Graduate Education Courses
Please note that these courses may be taken only by those individuals who have been accepted as Graduate Education students.
ED6013 Advanced Foundations of Education
Credit hours: 3
This course includes exploration into the disciplines of philosophy, history, and sociocultural context of education. Course content focuses on investigating philosophy’s questions regarding the nature of humanness and schooling, history’s account of the role of schools, and social science’s view of structures, ideologies, and agency as they relate to schooling. It seeks to equip students with ways to see education as the practice of developing persons in various secular and Christian-based images. Only those individuals who have been accepted into Crandall University’s Master of Education degree program may register in this course.
ED6023 Research Methods in Education
Credit hours: 3
This course introduces students to the basic concepts of educational research and their application. It examines the language of research, ethical principles and challenges, and the core elements of the research process within qualitative, quantitative, mixed methods, and action research. Students will apply these theoretical underpinnings and skills to a critical evaluation of published research and develop a research proposal.
Corequisite: ED6013
ED6036 Applied Research Methods in Education
Credit hours: 6
Certain exceptional students, upon request to the Dean of Education prior to the completion of ED6023, may be granted permission to complete a major research paper as an element of their Master of Education requirements. Approval by the Dean will be dependent upon having a full-time faculty member with expertise in the chosen topic and the faculty member having available time. The student and faculty member will arrange agreed-upon deadlines and meeting times. Students must understand that the work involved in the Major Research Paper is equivalent to a Master Level Thesis and that much of their research work will be independent. Students must go through Crandall University’s Research Ethics Committee and required school administrators and/or school district for any outside approvals needed.
Prerequisite: ED6013, ED6023, approval of Dean of Education
ED6106 Addressing the Needs of Struggling Readers in Inclusive Classrooms
Credit hours: 6
An exploration of approaches to instruction that address the needs of struggling readers will be the mandate of this course. Emphasis will be on connecting assessment results to instructional planning. Topics will include characteristics of skilled readers; causes of reading difficulties; overview of specific learning disabilities and attention deficit disorder; managing an effective learning environment; formal and informal assessment methods; and the effects of poverty on literacy.
ED6136 Reading in the Content Area
Credit hours: 6
This course will explore the instructional techniques used to foster reading comprehension across content area classrooms. Topics include vocabulary development, prereading strategies, textbook study skills, numeracy, writing to learn, authentic reading assessment, classroom organization and management, boys and literacy, and motivating struggling readers.
ED6143 Inclusionary Practices in the Classroom for Language Learners
Credit hours: 3
This course is about supporting language learners in the content area classroom. Following the SIOP Model and the principles of UDL, the teaching of learning strategies and creation of meaningful activities, aimed to facilitate the learning of a new language, will be explored.
ED6216 Writing Instruction in the Inclusive Classroom
Credit hours: 6
This course will explore the research and application of instructional strategies for the written language. This course will emphasize instruction and resources for K-8 grade levels. Topics include continuum of children’s writing development, text forms and features, traits of writing, writing assessment instructional approaches, and classroom organization.
ED6313 Cultural Literacy in Diverse Classrooms
Credit hours: 3
This course is about the development of culturally responsive and sensitive pedagogy in diverse classrooms. Students will draw on a range of conceptual frameworks to explore issues of race, gender and culture, and connect these frameworks to their practice.
ED6403 Administrative Theory
Credit hours: 3
The act of leading in an educational setting – what does this mean for those who aspire to leadership positions in our schools? The course will provide opportunities for discussion as we seek to appreciate the art and science of school leadership.
Prerequisite: Three years of full-time teaching experience or equivalent as determined by the Education Admissions Committee
ED6413 Supervision and Instructional Leadership
Credit hours: 3
The nature and roles of educational supervision as these relate to visioning and leadership will be the focus of this course. Models of instructional supervision, techniques, procedures, and evaluation practices will be studied as well as the skills to supervise others.
Prerequisite: Three years of full-time teaching experience or equivalent as determined by the Education Admissions Committee
ED6506 Independent Research Studies in Education
Credit hours: 6
This course is designed to be created under the supervision of a specific faculty member in Education for a particular Education student to have the opportunity to investigate more independently a relevant research topic in Education. Such a course will occur only with the special permission of the Education department, and the student must have developed a learning contract with the professor regarding its intended learning objectives and benefits.
Prerequisites: B.Ed. and permission of the Education department
ED6513 Independent Research Studies in Education I
Credit hours: 3
This course creates for students, based on the supervision of a specific faculty member, the opportunity to investigate more independently a relevant research topic in Education. This course can occur only with special permission, and the student must have developed a learning contract with the professor regarding its intended learning objectives and benefits.
Prerequisites: B.Ed. and permission of the Education department
ED6523 Independent Research Studies in Education II
Credit hours: 3
This course creates for students, based on the supervision of a specific faculty member, the opportunity to investigate more independently a relevant research topic in Education. This course can occur only with special permission, and the student must have developed a learning contract with the professor regarding its intended learning objectives and benefits.
Prerequisites: B.Ed. and permission of the Education department
ED6616 Individual Student Assessment
Credit hours: 6
This course focuses on the challenge of individual student assessment and the range of tasks associated with that of being a resource teacher. These tasks include consultation, observation, record review, testing, scoring, interpretation, reporting results, and responses to referral questions that offer instructionally relevant information. It can also include providing recommendations to assist in improving the academic and behavioural functioning of students.
ED6706 The Role and Function of the Resource Teacher
Credit hours: 6
This course examines the range of learning exceptionalities and then explores the resulting roles and functions today’s resource teachers have in working with students, families, staff members, and support personnel. Also included in this course are such elements as team leadership; legal, ethical, and policy issues; differentiated instruction; and special education planning.
ED6816 Emotional and Behavioural Disorders
Credit hours: 6
This course examines procedures and processes for assessing, supporting, and teaching students with emotional and behavioural disorders within inclusive and segregated educational environments. It comprehensively reviews assessment strategies and techniques for supporting children and adolescents who present disruptive emotional and behavioural disorders in schools.
ED6843 Development in School-aged Children and Adolescents
Credit hours: 3
This course surveys the development individuals experience during childhood and adolescence. These two broad phases of life will be studied from a developmental perspective with a focus on such developmental dimensions as biological, cognitive, social, emotional, moral, and spiritual. Further the course will examine the implications of such dynamics for learning, teaching, curriculum development, and counselling.
ED6903 Addressing the Needs of Struggling Learners in Mathematics
Credit hours: 3
This course explores the range of approaches to instruction that address the needs of struggling learners in mathematics with an emphasis on connecting assessment results to educational planning. Some topics included are foundations of mathematics learning, assessment strategies, and resources for struggling learners.
ED6913 Family-School Partnerships in Children’s Education
Credit hours: 3
This course offers an examination of the relationships between families and schools by reviewing empirical literature and theories on this topic. Students will learn about the contextual factors of various social categories (e.g. social class, religion, disability and race) and personal factors (e.g. mental and physical health) as they explore the relationships families have with schools. The course will include a discussion of the benefits of parent engagement and evidence-based strategies to strengthen family-school partnerships to support student achievement.
