LSE - Learning Sciences in Education

The focus of this course is understanding the role and application of the learning sciences in designing powerful learning experiences and environments using digital technologies. Major topics include teaching, learning and assessment in digitally-mediated learning environments including theories of learning and socio-cultural influences, human-computer interaction and visual tools for representing teaching and learning processes. Pre-requisite(s): None. Co-requisite(s): None 3 semester hours

This course explores strategies for creating and maintaining safe schools. Participants examine evidence-based research that addresses conditions that lead to safe and unsafe schools. Participants explore ways of assessing and monitoring school safety and preventing school violence, including but not limited to gender-based violence, bullying, aggression against school personnel, and school rampages. Participants learn how to mobilize student diversity, classroom pedagogy, strategies for student cognitive and social engagement, classroom management and community building, interdependent school organizational networks, familial support, peer-involved mediation activities, and restorative justice practices to create safe learning spaces for P-12 students. Pre-requisite(s): None. Co-requisite(s): None. 3 semester hours

This course explores the experience of teaching in undergraduate and graduate college settings, emphasizing core assumptions about helping students learn, reflecting critically on teaching practice, observing student learning experiences, and sustaining respect for students as adults. The course also prompts educators to examine practices common to college teaching across disciplines and levels, including lecturing, organizing groups for learning, planning project-based assignments, teaching culturally diverse students, incorporating creativity in courses, co-teaching, and teaching in blended and online settings. Pre-requisite(s): None. Co-requisite(s): May be taken concurrently with LSE 691. 3 semester hours

Designed as a field-based companion course to LSE 605 Postsecondary Teaching in Content Specializations, this course organizes field experiences designed to broaden and deepen postsecondary educators’ professional knowledge within their teaching fields. Candidates will plan explorations of their respective professional disciplines, examine professional associations that publish research in the discipline, participate in state, regional, or national professional meetings focused on scholarship, interview experts in the field, create annotated bibliographies of current research in the field, engage in other scholarly activities in the academic discipline, and write a reflective summary of the impact of these professional development activities on their teaching. Candidates will document outcomes in a professional portfolio and in an updated curriculum vitae. Pre-requisite(s): None. Co-requisite(s): Candidates should take this course concurrently with LSE 605 Postsecondary Teaching in Content Specializations, but may take this course independently with permission of the program director or dissertation chair in the applicable program. 3 semester hours