UM-St. Louis Credit Courses at
St. Louis Community College at Wildwood
2645 Generations Drive
Wildwood, Missouri 63040-1168
(near the intersection of Route 109 and Manchester Road)
All courses are three credit hours and meet on the semester schedule unless noted otherwise.
Textbooks: Students may have textbooks shipped to them from the UMSL Bookstore if they want to use their student ID. In order to make sure the correct books are being shipped, please provide the following information in your e-mail message: name, street address, department, course number, and section number. Note: We cannot ship to a post office box. E-mail: teri@umsl.edu
ELEMENTARY EDUCATION
Physical Education | Teacher Education
FALL 2008 • August 18-December 13
PHYSICAL EDUCATION (PHY ED)
Teaching Health in the Elementary School
PHY ED 3430 • Class #12957
Mondays & Wednesdays • 12:30-1:45 p.m.
Room 301
Prerequisites: Level I courses and admission to Teacher Education.
A study of health programs in the elementary school. Emphasis is given to the teacher's responsibilities in the areas of health services, healthful school environment, and instruction in a comprehensive school health program.
TEACHER EDUCATION (TCH ED)
Introduction to Instructional Methods
TCH ED 3310 • Class #14194
Mondays & Wednesdays • 2:00-3:15 p.m.
Room 301
Prerequisites: TCH ED 2210, 2211, 2212, or equivalent and admission to Teacher Education Program.
Beginning methods course for K-12 teachers. Skill development in planning instruction, selecting content, use of various teaching methods, designing assessment, developing classroom climate and management strategies. Participation in professional development through observing students in a school setting, microteaching, using educational technology, and portfolio development. A minimum of 12 field experience hours required.
Literacy Learning and Instruction
TCH ED 3315 • Class #14221
Mondays & Wednesdays • 3:30-4:45 p.m.
Room 301
Prerequisites: Admission to the Teacher Education program. May take concurrently with TCH ED 3312 and TCH ED 3313 or equivalents; may not be taken before TCH ED 3312 and TCH ED 3313 or equivalents.
Methods, materials, frameworks, and technology for the effective teaching of literacy to young children, children with special needs, and children in elementary education settings. Emphasis on role of language experience, phonics, semantics, syntactics, pragmatics, schema theory, and metacognition in literacy development. Observation, assessing children's literacy interests and development, and teaching lessons in a school classroom setting are required. This course may be applied toward a
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