Explore the ways SEL benefits students through investigating its purposes and goals, the competencies it seeks to promote, the characteristics of effective programs, and the range of program formats. We frame these topics through examining ongoing dilemmas in the field.
We also conduct in-depth reviews of several programs and the research that supports them. Explores contemporary ideas and issues in the history, philosophy and sociology of science education and science, science as a social and cultural activity and how contemporary issues in science relate to and impact educational practice.
Explores the historical development of mathematics as a human construct, and the relationship between the discipline and the contemporary school mathematics curriculum. Focuses on the sociology of mathematics education and how cultural traditions and societal needs influence the school mathematics curriculum and educational practice.
Participants will engage theories and processes of literacy learning, reading development, and equity-oriented teaching. Students will learn, develop, and enact instructional strategies and lessons to support all students' successful participation in a range of print and multimodal literacy practices embedded in reading instruction in elementary classrooms. Participants will engage theories and processes of literacy learning, writing development, and equity-oriented teaching.
Students will learn, develop, and enact instructional strategies and lessons to support all students' successful participation in a range of multimodal literacy practices embedded in writing instruction in elementary classrooms. Engages theories and practices of literacy teaching and learning that challenge multiple forms of oppression. Explores effective social studies teaching techniques used to prepare secondary students for success in college, career, and civic life.
An emphasis is placed on interpreting sources, understanding multiple perspectives, and employing critical thinking with diverse students.
Requires corequisite of EDUC Prepares teacher education candidates for teaching social studies in a social justice and equity context. Participants will understand theoretical and developmental processes associated with social studies learning, culturally responsive teaching pedagogy in social studies, methods for teaching social studies in a diverse society, and the integration of classroom instruction with the Colorado Academic Content Standards. In this course, students engage with theories and practices of assessment and instruction in the key content areas of reading, mathematics, and science.
The course addresses issues of assessment, teaching, and learning that build from and extend knowledge and practice from the assessment course and the methods courses in the three focal content areas.
Modules will examine the purposes and practices of assessment in reading, mathematics and science education in elementary education. Particular attention will be given to theoretical foundations in assessment, applications of theory in classroom practice, and the design and use of assessment techniques and tools to support teaching for student understanding. While some attention will be given to large-scale assessment, this will be necessarily limited and addressed only as it pertains to the in.
Builds on knowledge and teaching practices introduced in EDUC Addresses five critical components of reading. Refines understanding of research-based practices for diagnostic assessments and intervention, and teaching strategies for elementary age learners.
Prepares candidates to deliver a comprehensive reading curriculum in the elementary grades. Explores the underlying principles and philosophies of several approaches to the teaching of English in the areas of language, writing, and speaking and the practical application of these methods in the secondary classroom.
Provides support in constructing activities, assignments, assessments, and units that meet the differentiated needs of students given their diverse identities, lives, interests, and needs. Focuses on responsive instructional approaches for elementary school students, including culturally and linguistically diverse students requiring special education services.
Addresses relevant educational laws and policies aimed at protecting students' rights to a quality education. Includes practicum experiences in elementary school settings. Focuses on curriculum, materials, methods and assessment, and related aspects of instruction. Introduces best practices in teaching mathematics in middle and high schools. Examines the Colorado Academic Content Standards. Provides an introduction for education minors and others with an interest in education policy and practice to bilingual and multicultural education programs for emergent bilinguals.
Includes an overview of the history and legislation related to the education of emergent bilingual students, identification and placement, as well as the various models, theoretical and philosophical underpinnings, and pedagogical practices that constitute sound educational practices for emergent bilingual students. Explores multicultural education, critical pedagogy, and culturally sustaining pedagogies, including their underlying theories, curriculum design, and curriculum examples.
Students will analyze curriculum with a focus on its representation of different socio-cultural groups, identities, points of view, relationship to different communities, and ideology. Students will also begin planning, teaching, and evaluating instruction anchored in critical, culturally sustaining pedagogies. Critique and analyze the linguistic, social, political and cultural factors that influence the acquisition of literacy for emerging bilingual EB learners.
Learn how people understand key concepts in physics. Through examination of physics content, pedagogy and problems, through teaching, and through research in physics education, students will explore the meaning and means of teaching physics. Students will gain a deeper understanding of how education research is done and how people learn. Useful for all students, especially for those interested in physics, teaching, and education research. Explores theories, methods, and materials for building interdisciplinary connections within and across secondary English and Social Studies classrooms.
Provides opportunities for collaborative work in building lessons and unit plans that challenge disciplinary boundaries and advocate for complex problem solving. Complete a research project that draws on theories of social change and is developed in partnership with a community or civic agency. Become skilled at doing original research to address complex social problems.
Meets during student teaching assignment. Includes topics of concern to teachers, such as classroom organization and management, lesson planning, assessment, preparation of edTPA, etc.
Introduce students to the theory, methods, practice, and problems in the testing and assessment of bilingual students at the classroom and large-scale level.
Topics include the specification of English Learners as a student population and the assessment of their language proficiency and academic achievement. The course additionally addresses reliability, validity, and fairness in the testing of linguistically diverse populations. University supervised, school based field experiences teaching culturally and linguistically diverse students. Accompanies university coursework required for the Colorado endorsement in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Education.
Introduces undergraduate Learning Assistants LAs to education research, active learning, and strategies that support: 1 eliciting student ideas and helping all group members become active and engaged in the class; 2 listening and questioning; 3 building relationships; and 4 integrating learning theories with effective practices.
Also "LA Pedagogy Course. First-semester LAs requirement. Provides an introduction for education minors and others with an interest in education and human development topics to the variables that interact in the process of bilingual development in emergent bilinguals, from birth to adolescence. The course will examine these factors and generate understandings about how they work together to foster or inhibit successful development of bilingualism in community, home, and school contexts.
This field-based course is the second in a three-sequence course intended for Learning Assistants. This course provides opportunities for advanced Learning Assistants LAs to practice mentoring strategies as they mentor first-time LAs. LA mentors will observe and consult with their LA mentees each week and observe entire contexts in which LAs are used. In the seminar component of the course, LA mentors will discuss their readings about mentoring, skillful teaching, and group facilitation and they will reflect on their work with their LA mentees.
Prepares students to teach English as a new language in K-6 U. Grounded in theoretical understandings of language acquisition and development, students develop resources and strategies to plan instruction for emergent bilingual children.
Requires corequisite course of EDUC This is a continuation of EDUC LA mentors will continue to mentor first-time LAs, but they will also design and test projects intended to address issues with the LA program that they have identified in the field. LA mentors will complete instructional innovation projects through cycles of design, testing, feedback, and revision. In this course, LA mentors enact projects leading to the improvement of the LA program through improved student and faculty experiences.
Kindergarten through sixth grades. Department enforced prerequisite: completion of all education and content-specific arts and sciences requirements, and passing required licensure exam.
Examines purposes and practices of assessment in mathematics and science education. Particular attention is given to application of theoretical foundations and contemporary research in the design and use of assessment techniques and tools to support teaching for student understanding. Addresses the role of effective formative assessment in teaching and learning. This course is the first semester of a year-long, elementary classroom-based internship. Building on prior and concurrent Education courses, candidates are expected to design and deliver culturally and linguistically responsive instruction in collaboration with an experienced elementary teacher, as well as independently.
Assignments and the required student teaching seminar support candidates to reflect critically on their practice and learning. Recommendation for a Colorado initial teaching license requires excellent performance in both semesters of student teaching.
Must be admitted to a secondary teacher education program in English, Japanese, Latin, math, Russian, science or social studies. Department enforced prerequisites: completed all education and content-specific artsand sciences courses and passed required licensure exam.
Introduces descriptive statistics including graphic presentation of data, measures of central tendency and variability, correlation and prediction, and basic inferential statistics, including the t-test. This course is the second semester of a year-long, elementary classroom-based internship. Department enforced prerequisites: completed all education and content-specific arts and sciences courses and passed required licensure exam.
Required experience for music students seeking education at both elementary and secondary levels. Department enforced prerequisites: completed all education and content-specific music courses and passed required licensure exam. Designed to meet needs of students with topics of pertinent interest. Provides an introduction to recent research into student learning on the conceptual foundations of modern biology, together with pedagogical methods associated with effective instruction and its evaluation.
Students will be involved in active research into conceptual and practical issues involved in biology education, methods to discover student preconceptions, and the design, testing and evaluation of various instructional interventions.
Provides teachers opportunity to explore fundamental mathematical theories and pedagogical perspectives pertaining to the teaching and learning of number and operation. Engages students in explorations of mathematical content underlying number and operations, while highlighting relevant problem solving, reasoning and proof, and mathematical connections. Explores implications of teachers' mathematical learning on their classroom teaching.
Develops practices supporting learner's number sense development. Uses reform-based mathematics curricula to engage participants in algebraic thinking, to reflect on their own knowledge of algebraic concepts, and to examine pedagogical ideas that can foster K students' algebraic thinking and learning.
Algebraic topics include patterning, variable, functions, multiple representations, equality, and solving linear and systems of equations. Explores issues related to how people learn and teach chemistry. Reviews high school and early college chemistry concepts both from the content and pedagogical perspectives. Delves into the chemistry education research, education, psychology, and cognitive science literature.
Second semester of an academic year's training for students interested in peer counseling. Expand upon what you learned in ARSC Focus on presentations, leadership, and group facilitation. Basic group leadership, facilitation theory, and technique taught. Offered only spring semesters. Learn and develop pedagogically effective strategies for teaching and understanding Earth Science concepts. Particular emphasis is placed on understanding the importance of geoscience habits of mind i.
Focuses upon inquiry and evaluation of evidence, the importance of background knowledge and misconceptions, and developing effective discourse within and outside the classroom. Provides an opportunity to explore how to foster geometric thinking while examining fundamental mathematical theory underlying the content area of geometry and measurement. Emphasizes investigative approach involving problem solving, reasoning, connections, and communication as well as learning mathematics content in a flexible and conceptual way.
Challenges participants to apply their understanding to teaching practices that foster geometric thinking in K learners. Also see EDUC Focuses on teaching probability, data analysis, and statistics in K classrooms. Explores curriculum and assessment strategies in the areas of probability and statistics. Examines research on students' thinking on stochastic tasks and how this research informs teaching practice. Emphasizes deepening of one's conceptual understanding of probability and statistics and their importance in the current information age.
Provides opportunities for practice around classroom community building, instruction, assessment, etc. Controlled enrollment. Credit given for peer counseling activities. Students are selected to participate in this class and act as peer counselors or TAs for the peer counseling training.
Repeatable up to 9 total credit hours. Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 9. Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 3. By integrating theory with required community service, students explore how problems are shaped by cultural values and how alternative value paradigms affect the definition of problems in areas such as education and the environment.
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Programs of Study. Architecture and Planning. Focuses on the minimization of the total supply chain cost subject to service requirements imposed by a variety of industries.
Explores ways to improve organizations to meet demands of changing environments. Explores and builds skills for conflict management and negotiation problems faced by managers e. Content is relevant to all MBA students, especially those interested in management, accounting, entrepreneurship, finance, and marketing.
Practice the art and science of successful negotiations. Provides students high interaction with businesses and entrepreneurs. Provides an integrative, hands-on exercise in managing change. Develops skills in contracting, collecting, and analyzing data, developing action plans, and preparing reports.
Teams practice these skills by conducting an organizational diagnosis, consulting project within an organization. Examines a variety of issues common to management of technology, such as technology strategies, methods of technology transfer, selecting technology standards, managing the research and development process, and encouraging and rewarding innovation.
Examines organizational leadership from the executive perspective, including private and public sector firms, and non-profits. Studies how executives lead change and innovation, interact with the top management team, and deal with the board of directors Topics include governance of the firm, strategies for enhancing executive influence, assessing and understanding diverse leadership styles, and the ethics and responsibilities of an executive. Formerly MBAX Provides an opportunity to examine leadership from the executive perspective in organizations including private and public sector firms and non-profits.
Topics covered include how executives lead change and innovation in organizations, interact with the top management team, deal with the board of directors, leadership issues involved with governance of the firm and strategies for enhancing executive influence.
This course focuses on how to lead to increase inclusion and maximize the benefits that diversity can bring. The data show irrefutable evidence that diversity increases innovation, market share, return on assets, and stock prices. Provides a comprehensive overview of the core concepts, strategies and practices of sustainable business, emphasizing innovative business practices and entrepreneurial opportunities created by the sustainability "movement".
The topic of sustainability will be approached from the unique perspectives of seven core disciplines of business administration: economics, strategy, ethics, organizational behavior, operations, finance and accounting, and marketing. Studies methods of analyzing real estate opportunities, local government controls and regulations of the development process. Majority of class material is provided via case studies and guest lecturers. Last portion of the course will be the presentation of student group projects.
Objectives of the course are to 1 conduct income property investment analysis; 2 to develop the technical competence necessary to structure real estate transactions; and 3 to understand the financial assets securitized by real estate. Techniques for structuring real estate transactions examined in this course include lender participations, sale-leasebacks, joint ventures, and real estate syndications.
Examines real estate market behavior beginning with an overview of residential and commercial property markets. Examines how factors influencing the demand for real estate interact with the factors influencing the supply of real estate to determine market rents and how the flow of future expected income is capitalized to yield the market price of property.
The course will also examine the roles that local, state and federal governments have in real estate market outcomes. Examines real estate market operations and discusses alternative methodologies for estimating real estate values. Examines how factors influencing the demand for real estate interact with the supply of real estate to determine market rents and how the flow of future expected income is capitalized to yield the market price of the asset.
Examines the legal issues associated with developing, acquiring, transferring, and leasing real property. Topics include real estate contracts, land use and development agreements, vehicles for owning real estate, real estate covenants, conditions and restrictions, loan transactions, negotiating real estate contracts, commercial leases and real estate taxation.
Material for this course will consist of assigned articles and real estate cases. Introduces managerial accounting, which includes the concepts, models, and systems that provide this information and control.
The course will familiarize participants with the terminology and basic concepts of managerial accounting, touching on topics ranging from development and use of cost information for decision-making to management control systems. Provides students with an in-depth perspective about a specific country or region outside the United States. The course can focus on a different region or country each time it is offered.
If demand for this type of experience is strong, multiple sections of the course could be offered in a given semester, each focusing on. Pricing provides the means to capture value. The course covers theories, analytical tools and conceptual frameworks needed for devising price strategy as part of the value proposition for products and services.
It draws upon principles from economics, marketing and psychology. Primary and secondary data based analysis is used to understand price response and competitive pricing. Substantive topics include customized pricing, price negotiations, bidding and auctions, price discounting, trade promotion, bundling, behavioral pricing, among others.
Contrasting operations in US and China will study what changes US companies have made to successfully operate in the Chinese market and how US companies have influenced Chinese business operations.
Reviews the history and present state of the interdependency between the US and Chinese business environments. Culminates in a 9-day trip to China. Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 3. Explores techniques, processes, tools, and capabilities required to manage growth and land use change in the light of shifts beginning to transform the way we approach land use and real estate development. The focus is learning to frame decisions that involve multiple stakeholders with multiple objectives and then learning the various techniques used to evaluate the choices.
Influence diagrams, decision heuristics using spreadsheets, and decision trees will all be explored with user-friendly decision tree software.
Analyzes key issues related to the design and management of operations and supply chains using quantitative tools such as linear, integer, and non-linear programming, regression, and statistical analysis. Covers important topics such as forecasting, aggregate planning, inventory theory, transportation, risk pooling, production control and scheduling, and facilities location, among others. Uses mathematical modeling, spreadsheet analysis, case studies, and pedagogical simulations to deliver material.
The ability to compete effectively globally is increasingly important for many firms. Topics such as globalization and the competitive environment; key differences in institutions around the globe and their implications; how firms can succeed internationally e. Provides tools to analyze and understand emerging markets, how to operate in these markets and how to work with the multinational enterprises present in those areas. Offers a managerial perspective based on a thorough understanding of the relevance and impact of world events on global business.
Promotes understanding of how to operate in emerging markets whether in the U. The macroeconomic environment is vitally important to business managers regardless of their area of focus. Develops a basic understanding of the macroeconomy and its relationship to an individual business or industry through understanding macroeconomic concepts and data sources, developing a basic model, understanding relevant policy instruments, and integrating this information into the global economy. Addresses the opportunities and problems of commercializing new renewable energy technologies.
Focuses on energy markets, opportunity identification, life cycle analysis, policy economics, project financing and economic analysis as they relate to bringing renewable energy technologies to market. Studies the elements of the business firm's fundamental problem: how to maximize profits.
Develops for each element managerial theory based upon introductory and intermediate level microeconomics. Topics include graduate level treatment of descriptive statistics, probability, probability distributions, sampling theory and sampling distributions and statistical inference estimation and hypothesis testing.
Heavy use of R programming in course execution. Topics include graduate level treatment of descriptive statistics, probability, probability distributions, sampling theory and sampling distributions and statistical inference estimation and hypothesis testing applied to the field of finance. Provides an introduction to topics such as regression analysis, analysis of variance, time series forecasting, decision analysis, index numbers, and nonparametric methods.
Topics include graduate level treatment of descriptive statistics, probability, probability distributions, sampling theory and sampling distributions and statistical inference estimation and hypothesis testing applied to real estate. Includes capital budgeting, capital structure, long term financing, short term financial management and financial planning topics.
Designed as an introduction to Business Analytics, which considers the extensive use of data, methods and fact-based management to support and improve decision making.
Business intelligence focuses on data handling, queries and reports to generate information associated with products, services and customers, business analytics uses data and models to explain business performance and how it can be improved.
The class will be built on heavy hands-on coding; it will introduce and subsequently involve extensive use of Python. This course exposes the students to commonly used platforms for statistical and predictive analytics. The class will go into depth of analytics using Python.
Students will learn to analyze large datasets, including textual analytics such as twitter-stream analysis. The class will focus on predictive analytics. Introduces students to the fundamental principles underlying supply chains, and focuses on the integration with both operations and logistics. Provides an opportunity to execute a project for a company, integrating course work knowledge in an applied capstone experience.
Allows first hand exposure to the business analytics as both an observer and creator of the business analytics process. Students work closely with an area client company to solve an important business analytics problem under the close supervision of the instructor. Topics include 1 conducting income property investment analysis; 2 developing the technical competence necessary to structure real estate transactions; and 3 understanding the financial assets securitized by real estate.
Focuses on formulating decision problems as mathematical models and employing computational tools to solve them. Microsoft Excel is used as the main modeling platform but the course will also cover advanced tools, such as modeling languages.
Optimization modeling will be illustrated in problems associated with operations, marketing, management, and finance. Develops functional frameworks for analyzing and assessing uncertainty in real and financial assets and evaluating financial decisions under diverse scenarios. This course covers various methods of mapping uncertainty including binomial decision tree models, linear programming models and Monte-Carlo simulations. Further topics include tax consequences of these decisions.
Covers the management and construction of investment portfolios. Topics include performance and risk measures, identification of risk factors and the use of traditional and alternative assets classes including real estate, mutual funds, ETFs, venture capital funds, private equity funds and hedge funds.
Additional topics include tax consequences of investment decisions and cash management. Provides a deep understanding of how to use data on customer behavior and preferences to inform managerial decision making. Introduces methods for causal inference, modeling consumer demand, and modeling firm decisions. Applications include long-run customer management decisions customer acquisition and retention and short-run marketing mix product, price, promotion and distribution decisions.
The R programming language is used for course examples and assignments. Students are assumed to have a working knowledge of R and linear regression techniques. Students will use their knowledge of R programming in this course. Explores both the functional and technical environment for the creation, storage and use of the most prevalent source and type of data for business analysis, ERP and related structured data.
Students will learn how to access and leverage information via SQL for analysis, aggregation to visualization, create dashboards, and be source for business intelligence. Exposes the students to commonly used platforms for statistical and predictive analytics. Students will learn to analyze large datasets, including textual analytics such as twitter-stream analysis using R. Explores the capabilities and challenges of data-driven business decision making and prepares students to lead in analytics-driven organizations.
Introduces a set of common predictive and prescriptive analytics tools. Students apply the analytics tools to important decisions based on practical data sets from various companies. Analytics software packages are used extensively in the course. Moves the student beyond structured data and sources into business scenarios where data is semi-structured to unstructured such as those from social and web applications.
Students will learn practical application and mechanisms for getting this sort of data ready for analytics. R, an open source programming language for statistical computing and graphics, will be used.
It is assumed students have mastery of introductory statistics topics including descriptive tools, inference, and ordinary least squares regression. At the core of GDP and productivity is the science of planning new products of services in design, bringing them to market then producing and replicating it in reliable, dependable, scalable fashion. The focus for the course is learning to frame decisions that involve multiple stakeholders with multiple objectives and then learning the various techniques used to evaluate the choices.
Examines critical elements of distribution and logistics management, including physical distribution, supply chain echelon planning, warehouse transportation note selection and location, material handling, inventory quantity and location and other topics.
Examines principles and concepts of the acquisition process from commercial and governmental perspectives, focusing on the procurement process, including planning, source selection, solicitation writing, negotiations and oral discussions, contract preparation and administration.
A broad introductions to the managerial issues of information security. Because security is multifaceted, the topics of the class range widely, including technical e.
A key objective of the class is to develop a security mindset, in which one learns to think like an attacker for ways to exploit a system. Explores the application of data analytics to the domain of information security. Project-based class using python machine learning libraries to both build and deploy models for both supervised and unsupervised modeling algorithms.
Business problem contexts include classifying the likelihood that a file or website is malicious based on either extracted static indicators or dynamic behavioral analysis predictive analytics , as well as network anomaly detection on organizational network traffic data or on user account usage unsupervised machine learning. Examines strategies for mitigating the legal, property and portfolio risks associated with income properties.
The course begins by examining risks created by leases. The course then analyzes the risks associated with a single property and examines how risk changes with portfolios containing multiple properties. Finally, the course examines how to optimally incorporate investment properties in mixed asset portfolios. Course objectives are: 1 to understand economic forces that bridge technology, entrepreneurship and real estate; 2 to investigate short-, medium-, and lung-run effects of technology on residential and commercial real estate; 3 to communicate this information to Leeds School of Business students; and 4 to give current students the technology skills necessary to immediately add value for their potential employers.
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