EDUC 1045 - Orientation to Education

1. Subject Matter
   1. educational principles
   2. belonging and family connectedness
2. Student Learning
   1. developmental progressions
   2. developmental characteristics
   3. levels of readiness in learning
   4. strategies for organizing and supporting individual and group work
3. Instructional Strategies
   1. cognitive processes
4. Learning Environment
   1. motivation and behavior
5. Communication
   1. sensitive communication
   2. verbal, non-verbal, media communications
   3. listening techniques
6. Reflection and Personal Development
   1. history and philosophies of education
   2. implications for teachers
   3. reflective practice
   4. mindset
   5. professional dispositions
7. Collaboration and Ethics and Relationships
   1. schools as organizations
   2. operations of systems
   3. influence of factors outside of school
   4. data practices
   5. mandatory reporting laws and rules
8. Basic Skills Testing
   1. plan for passing exam
9. Special Education legislation
   1. inclusion
   2. least restrictive environment
   3. individualized education programs
   4. disability areas

1.  explain educational principles relevant to physical, social, emotional, moral, and cognitive development of young children.
2.  examine the concepts of “belonging” and “family connectedness” as crucial to the development of young children.
3. explain developmental progressions of learners and ranges of individual variation within the physical, social, emotional, moral, and cognitive domains.
4. explain the cognitive processes associated with various kinds of learning and how these processes can be stimulated.
5. explain human motivation and behavior.
6. identify factors and situations that are likely to promote or diminish intrinsic motivation and strategies to help students become self-motivated.
7. evaluate sensitive communication by and among all students.
8. explain the historical and philosophical foundations of education.
9. analyze schools as organizations within the larger community context and understand the operations of the relevant aspects of the systems within which the teacher works.
10. examine how factors in a student’s environment outside of school, including family circumstances, community environments, health and economic conditions, may influence student life and learning.
11. identify data practices.
12. explain mandatory reporting laws and rules.
13. plan for passing the MN NES EAS/Basic Skills testing–Reading, Writing and Math subtests.
14. knowledge of the Special Education legislation to the classroom setting.
15. apply developmental characteristics of students by age level, including physical, cognitive, emotional, and social characteristics.
16. describe implications for teachers of gender, culture, language and socio-economic diversity.
17. describe mindset and professional dispositions and their impact on the methods used in teaching children.
18. explain an awareness of the process of reflective practice in teaching.
19. describe the importance of nonverbal as well as verbal communication for educators.
20. explain effective verbal, nonverbal, and media communication techniques in the classroom.
21. use effective listening techniques for the human services profession.

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