PY 516 - Effective Educational Models and Literacy

This course will address such topics as current educational issues, educational mandates, schooling in a changing pluralistic society, human relations and discrimination issues in education, legal, and political forces impacting American education, and the teacher’s professional roles and responsibilities. Examining the child as an individual and as part of a larger community will allow the course to cover topics to examine the child as “learner,” the psychology of human learning, cognitive/social development, psychology of the exceptional child, and cross-cultural human relation perspectives in psychology and education. Literacy theories, literacy program, model classroom and the evaluation of curriculum are also explored. (3 credits)

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