EDPL 4640 - Professional Internship in Adolescence to Young Adult

• Students will be able to list the demographic characteristics of the student population.
• Students will be able to exhibit an appropriate level of content knowledge.
• Students will be able to use various strategies to effectively assess student learning.
• Students will be able to apply a variety of instructional strategies to positively impact student learning.
• Students will be able to critically analyze various factors that impact the learning environment.
• Students will be able to develop effective patterns of collaboration and communication with teachers, students and parents.
• Students will be able to engage in professional development and growth opportunities.

EDPL 4650 - Professional Internship Seminar

• Teacher candidates will present information both orally and in writing using effective organizational and technical skills.
• Teacher candidates will demonstrate effective collaboration with peers, colleagues, families, and the community.
• Teacher candidates will demonstrate personal and professional ethical responsibility.
• Teacher candidates will demonstrate respect and understanding of multicultural contexts and their importance to effective teaching and learning.
• Teacher candidates will demonstrate synthesis of complex information through analysis and application of teaching content and pedagogy.
• Teacher candidates will use technology to effectively acquire, present and analyze information.

EDPL 4660 - Professional Internship for Advanced Candidates

• Successful completion of supervised observation, participation, and limited teaching experiences.

EDPL 4670 - Early Childhood Pre-Primary Internship Seminar

• Discuss curriculum plans with seminar instructor and receive feedback.
• Share experiences with fellow students.
• To reflect upon principles and practices observed in classroom experiences.

EDPL 4900 - Special Topics in Education - Professional Laboratory

• Students will increase their knowledge in Education - Professional Laboratory.

EDPL 4910 - Professional Internship in Early Childhood

• Students will be able to list the competencies of an Early Childhood Educator.
• Students will be able to develop appropriate curriculum practices with young children.

EDRE 2900 - Special Topics in Education - Research & Evaluation

• Students will increase their knowledge in Education - Research & Evaluation.

EDSE 2500 - Analysis of Teaching Characteristics and Teaching Tasks

• Students will be able to construct a repertoire of tasks and models for analyzing teaching.
• Students will be able to apply systematic observation and analysis tools for self-evaluation and evaluation of the work of others.
• Students will be able to reflect on their professional growth and development using course constructs.
• Students will be able to formulate data-based goals for improvement of teaching practice.
• Students will be able to use evidence-based strategies to monitor changes in teaching practice.

EDSE 2500L - Analysis of Teaching Characteristics and Teaching Tasks Field Experience

• Students will be able to apply systematic skills in observation and analysis of teaching in a secondary classroom.
• Students will be able to critically evaluate their teaching in secondary classrooms.
• Students will be able to demonstrate professional dispositions, competencies, and relationships in the classroom, school, and the community.

EDSE 2900 - Special Topics in Education - Secondary

• Students will be able to critically analyze various aspects of Secondary Education-related topics.
• Students will be able to apply newly acquired skills related to Secondary Education-related topics to their own teaching.

EDSE 2970T - Secondary Education Honors Tutorial

• Student will demonstrate a mastery of a selected topic in secondary education.

EDSE 2980T - Secondary Education Honors Tutorial

• Student will demonstrate a mastery of a selected topic in secondary education.

EDSE 2981T - Secondary Education Honors Tutorial

• Student will demonstrate a mastery of a selected topic in secondary education.

EDSE 3500 - Secondary School Planning and Management of Instruction

• Students will be able to develop teaching philosophies and goals that support life-long learning and continuous reflection.
• Students will be able to compare the uses, benefits, and drawbacks of a variety of instructional strategies.
• Students will be able to construct differentiated resources and tools to support the learning of all students.
• Students will be able to explain the characteristics of a safe, engaging, and student-centered learning environment using knowledge of students and principles of classroom management.
• Students will be able to design developmentally appropriate, standards-aligned, and community-connected lessons and units.
• Students will be able to reflect on teaching performance in course and/or field contexts.

EDSE 3510 - Secondary School Teaching and Monitoring of Learning

• Students will be able to compare the uses, benefits, and drawbacks of a variety of assessment strategies.
• Students will be able to construct, administer, and analyze the results of assessments to monitor and support the learning of all students.
• Students will be able to design and implement developmentally appropriate, standards-aligned, and community-connected lessons and units using the results of assessments.
• Students will be able to evaluate the effectiveness of various strategies for creating a safe, engaging, and student-centered learning environment.
• Students will be able to critically reflect on teaching performance in course and field contexts.
• Students will be able to develop awareness of advocacy opportunities for issues and challenges facing secondary schools.

EDSE 3511 - Instruction Process and Curriculum

• Students will be able to identify and use several basic principles of learning that underlie different types of instruction.
• Students will be able to identify learner behaviors and practices that are consistent with effective principles of teaching and learning.
• Students will be able to analyze and critique leading models of teaching in terms of their psychological bases and/or philosophical principles, and reflect upon the significance of these models as they apply to classroom teaching.
• Students will be able to create learning activities that use advanced technology to extend and enhance learning.
• Students will be able to develop and apply a coherent, focused curriculum that is consistent with state and national standards and appropriate for addressing the needs, abilities and interests of students.
• Students will be able to discuss the importance and role of a clear learning theory foundation to the principles of effective instruction.
• Students will be able to use reflective skills and dispositions to monitor learning about teaching, learning, and instructional practices.

EDSE 3970T - Secondary Education Honors Tutorial

• Student will demonstrate a mastery of a selected topic in secondary education.

EDSE 3980T - Secondary Education Honors Tutorial

• Student will demonstrate a mastery of a selected topic in secondary education.

EDSE 3990H - Teaching English Language Learners

• Students will be able to describe the current research on English as a second language (ESL) and English as a foreign language (EFL) instruction.
• Students will be able to explain basic principles of language learning and specific methods of ESL/EFL instruction.
• Students will be able to apply strategies and skills for including ESL/EFL in regular classroom instruction.
• Students will be able to use knowledge of ESL/EFL instruction and assessment to monitor and support the development of English for English language learner students.
• Students will be able to reflect on their professional growth and development using course constructs.

EDSE 4150 - Curriculum Studies: Secondary School

• Students will be able to analyze the literature in the field of curriculum theory and design.
• Students will be able to compare traditional and alternative approaches to high school curriculum development.
• Students will be able to identify and analyze current trends and issues in high school curriculum development.
• Students will be able to identify and critique various influences on the high school curriculum.
• Students will be able to explain basic philosophical, sociological, psychological and historical origins of the high school curriculum.
• Students will be able to design and develop high school curricula in response to identified trends and needs.

EDSE 4200 - Teaching Content Literacy

• Students will be able to articulate the role of literacy for learning in their area of licensure.
• Students will be able to describe the role and importance of content area reading for learning in their area of licensure.
• Students will be able to explain the importance of ESL/EFL instruction in today’s classroom and the major theories of ESL/EFL learning and teaching.
• Students will be able to apply the skills, strategies, and dispositions necessary to most efficiently use reading and writing as integral learning tools in daily classroom instruction.
• Students will be able to use various ESL/EFL instructional methods and techniques to support student learning and instructional needs.

EDSE 4320 - Evaluation of Student Progress

• Students will be able to design assessments based on student needs and content specifications.
• Students will be able to analyze assessment results of multiple types of assessments.
• Students will be able to design instruction based on assessment results.
• Students will be able to critically evaluate the role of assessment in secondary schools and classrooms.
• Students will be able to reflect on their professional growth and development using course constructs.

EDSE 4400 - Secondary School Science Methods

• Students will be able to evaluate and employ a variety of appropriate teaching strategies used in secondary level science lessons that address state and national standards.
• Students will be able to create and implement formative assessments to diagnose secondary level science students’ prior knowledge to inform instructional decision-making, monitor student learning, and develop summative assessments.
• Students will be able to plan and teach secondary science lessons that consider students’ cognitive, behavior, instructional, cultural, and safety needs.
• Students will be able to use accurate science content and their understanding of scientific inquiry, the Nature of Science, and other scientific frameworks to create technology-rich learning environments that support student learning.
• Students will be able to identify and reflect upon strategies, resources, and experiences that develop professional knowledge of secondary level science teaching and help them engage with educators and community members.

EDSE 4400C - Secondary School Science Methods

• Students will be able to evaluate and employ a variety of appropriate teaching strategies used in secondary level science lessons that address state and national standards.
• Students will be able to create and implement formative assessments to diagnose secondary level science students’ prior knowledge to inform instructional decision-making, monitor student learning, and develop summative assessments.
• Students will be able to plan and teach secondary science lessons that consider students’ cognitive, behavior, instructional, cultural, and safety needs.
• Students will be able to use accurate science content and their understanding of scientific inquiry, the Nature of Science, and other scientific frameworks to create technology-rich learning environments that support student learning.
• Students will be able to identify and reflect upon strategies, resources, and experiences that develop professional knowledge of secondary level science teaching and help them engage with educators and community members.

EDSE 4400C - Secondary School Science Methods

EDSE 4400L - Secondary School Science Teaching Lab

• Students will be able to plan and teach secondary science lessons that consider students’ cognitive, behavior, instructional, cultural, and safety needs.
• Students will be able to identify and reflect upon strategies, resources, and experiences that develop professional knowledge of secondary level science teaching and help them engage with educators and community members.
• Students will be able to evaluate and employ a variety of appropriate teaching strategies used in secondary level science lessons that address state and national standards.
• Students will be able to create and implement formative assessments to diagnose secondary level science students’ prior knowledge to inform instructional decision-making, monitor student learning, and develop summative assessments.

EDSE 4720 - Teaching Earth Science

• Students will be able to discuss principles and practices for teaching and learning earth science.
• Students will be able to compare the uses, benefits, and drawbacks of a variety of earth science curricula to support teaching and learning in P-16 settings.
• Students will be able to design earth science curricula, including unit plans, for use with teachers and students in P-16.
• Students will be able to critically evaluate the importance of earth science education in the secondary classroom.
• Students will be able to reflect on their professional growth and development using course constructs.

EDSE 4720L - Teaching Earth Science Lab

• Students will be able to identify and use instructional strategies that involve learners in various earth science related scientific and engineering skills, practices, and processes.
• Students will be able to plan and deliver learning experiences that promote the earth science conceptual development of the diverse group of learners in the early field classroom.
• Students will be able to use reflective skills and dispositions to monitor their learning about earth science teaching, learning, and instructional practices.

EDSE 4780 - Teaching Physical Science

• Students will be able to compare the uses, benefits, and drawbacks of a variety of physical science curricula to support teaching and learning in P-16 settings.
• Students will be able to discuss principles and practices for teaching and learning physical science.
• Students will be able to design physical science curricula, including unit plans, for use with teachers and students in P-16.
• Students will be able to critically evaluate the importance of physical science education in the secondary classroom.
• Students will be able to reflect on their professional growth and development using course constructs.

EDSE 4780L - Teaching Physical Science Lab Field Experience

• Students will be able to identify and use instructional strategies that involve learners in various physical science related scientific and engineering skills, practices, and processes.
• Students will be able to plan and deliver learning experiences that promote the physical science conceptual development of the diverse group of learners in the early field classroom.
• Students will be able to use reflective skills and dispositions to monitor their learning about physical science teaching, learning, and instructional practices.

EDSE 4790C - Introduction to Teaching Secondary Social Studies

• Students will be able to apply knowledge of disciplinary concepts, facts, and tools; structures of inquiry; and forms of representation in social studies.
• Students will be able to plan learning sequences that leverage social studies knowledge and literacies, technology, and theory and research to support the civic competence of learners
• Students will be able to design and implement instruction and authentic assessments, informed by data literacy and learner self-assessment, that promote civic competence.
• Students will be able to implement relevant and responsive pedagogy, create collaborative and interdisciplinary learning environments, and prepare learners to be informed advocates for an inclusive and equitable society.
• Students will be able to reflect and expand upon their social studies knowledge, inquiry skills, and civic dispositions to advance social justice and promote human rights through informed action in schools and/or communities.

EDSE 4790L - Teaching Secondary Social Studies Field Experience

• Students will be able to demonstrate reflective practices to enact during their field experience
• Students will be able to design and teach social studies lessons that apply knowledge and skills gained in EDSE 4790

EDSE 4900 - Special Topics in Secondary Education

• Students will be able to critically analyze various aspects of Secondary Education-related topics.
• Students will be able to apply newly acquired skills related to Secondary Education-related topics to their own teaching.

EDSE 4970T - Secondary Education Honors Tutorial

EDSE 4980T - Secondary Education Honors Tutorial

EDSP 2300 - Teaching Mathematics for Diverse Learners

• Students will be able to create and modify lesson plans so they reflect current standards and research recommendations.
• Students will be able to describe research-based approaches to teaching mathematics.
• Students will be able to identify children’s mathematical strengths.
• Students will be able to identify children’s home and community resources and how to build on them in the mathematics classroom.
• Students will be able to integrate real-world connections when writing mathematics lesson plans.

EDSP 2710 - Introduction to Special Education

• Demonstrate a general understanding of services, strategies, settings (continuum of placements), and materials used in the education of learners who have exceptionalities.
• Demonstrate cultural sensitivity to misconceptions, generalizations, and stereotypes regarding people with disabilities as well as the cultural factors that intersect with exceptionality.
• Demonstrate knowledge of etiology/differential characteristics of learners with exceptionalities and the effects on an individual’s life, including interpersonal, social/emotional, intellectual, psychological, and language factors.
• Demonstrate knowledge of terminology relevant to the education of people who are exceptional.
• Outline current and historic foundations, legal issues and mandates, theories, and philosophies of special education as well as overviews of current issues and controversies.
• Use texts effectively, as well as professional journals, media, and other resources and reference materials relevant to persons with exceptionalities.

EDSP 2730 - Current Issues in Special Education (MM, MI)

• Students will be able to analyze topics related to the central concepts, philosophical, historical, and legal foundations of, as well as current issues for, learners with mild to intensive special education needs.
• Students will be able to identify a continuum of service delivery options / programs available for learners with mild to intensive needs and ways to ensure access to inclusive settings.
• Students will be able to evaluate strategies related to planning and managing the teaching and learning environment designed to meet the unique needs of learners with mild to intensive needs from preK-12.
• Students will be able to investigate and discuss various theoretical approaches to assessment, instruction, medical care, and support for learners with mild to intensive needs.
• Students will be able to practice collaboration, cooperative learning, and effective communication skills to advocate for individuals with special education needs.
• Students will be able to analyze current best practices that can be used to adapt and modify instruction and tasks to assist learners with mild to intensive needs to address academic, social/emotional, and physical development goals from preK-12.

EDSP 2900 - Special Topics in Education - Special

• Students will increase their knowledge in Education - Special.

EDSP 3550 - Technological Applications in Special Education

• Analyze the advantages and disadvantages of using computers and other technology with special needs populations.
• Assess technology as it relates to making school to work transitions.
• Demonstrate proficiency in gathering information on special education technology via the Internet and other information management systems.
• Demonstrate the use of computers in developing and maintaining individualized programs.
• Describe ways in which technology can be incorporated into the existing curriculum areas for students with special needs.
• Evaluate hardware and software currently available in terms of their applicability for special needs populations of varying ages.
• List and describe peripherals that can enable individuals with disabilities to use computers.
• List the technology challenges involved in making school to work transitions.
• Participate in and demonstrate understanding of service learning concepts.
• Read and analyze the current literature on the use of technology with special needs populations.

EDSP 3600 - Field Experience in Special Education/Mild to Moderate Educational Needs

• Demonstrate and use appropriate and modified assessment/data collection techniques tied to individual’s needs in various domains.
• Demonstrate and use instructional strategies appropriate to learner’s needs.
• Demonstrate collaboration with other professionals, related service providers, para-professionals, families, and use community resources.
• Demonstrate skills to promote and use language and communication.
• Demonstrate skills to promote appropriate learning environments and social interactions.
• Develop instructional plans and deliver instruction appropriate to individual needs.
• Engage in professional and ethical practices.

EDSP 3610 - Field Experience in Special Education/Moderate to Intensive Educational Needs

• Collaborate with other professionals, related service providers, para-professionals, families; use community resources.
• Create appropriate learning environments and social interactions.
• Demonstrate and use instructional strategies appropriate to learner’s needs.
• Demonstrate skills to use language/ communication.
• Demonstrate/use appropriate/modified assessment/data collection techniques to determine learning needs across various learning domains.
• Develop instructional plans/deliver instruction appropriate to individuals.
• Engage in professional and ethical practices.

EDSP 3700 - Understanding and Guiding Behavior: Effective Classroom Practices

• Students will be able to compare and contrast various classroom management theories and research.
• Students will be able to identify and apply universal preventative strategies.
• Students will be able to identify and interpret individual behaviors through various cultural lenses.
• Students will be able to design and implement intervention strategies for individuals at-risk for a disability.
• Students will be able to apply knowledge of and skills to promote problem solving and conflict resolution, barriers to access and acceptance, and adaptation to learning environments.
• Students will be able to collaborate and communicate with colleagues, families, and other relevant stakeholders when developing universal and targeted supports.
• Students will be able to engage in professional and ethical practices when developing universal and targeted supports.

EDSP 3710 - Intensive Behavior Interventions

• Students will be able to identify and interpret individual behaviors through various cultural lenses.
• Students will be able to apply knowledge of and skills to promote problem solving and conflict resolution, barriers to access and acceptance, and adaptation to learning environments.
• Students will be able to identify and apply functional behavioral strategies.
• Students will be able to design, implement, and report individualized interventions for individuals with severe and persistent behaviors.
• Students will be able to collaborate and communicate with colleagues, families, and other relevant stakeholders when providing intensive interventions.
• Students will be able to engage in professional and ethical practices when providing intensive interventions.

EDSP 3760 - Methods for Learners with Mild to Moderate Educational Needs

• Demonstrate use of authentic assessments.
• Demonstrate use of current, evidence-based teaching methods used in teaching students with mild to moderate disabilities.
• Design instructional environments and instruction that accommodate all types of learners, promote acceptance, celebrate diversity, and facilitate self-determination.
• Develop and use current practices in designing and writing Individualized Educational Programs.
• Develop, remediate or compensate for learning styles, learning modalities, working styles, and study skills.
• Differentiate instruction by applying principals of Universal Design.
• Use applications of various technologies to remediate instruction.

EDSP 3770 - Career Development and Transition Planning for Learners with Special Needs

• Develop an awareness of the network of public and private agencies comprising a community support system for citizens with disabilities.
• Develop an understanding of affirmative action programs and equal opportunity employment rights for workers with disabilities.
• Develop individual transition planning to bridge the gap between school and the world of work for students with disabilities.
• Identify and plan for the development of adult daily living skills essential to the survival of persons with developmental disabilities residing within the community.
• Identify appropriate occupational alternatives for youth and adults with disabilities.
• Locate, access, and use vocational guidance and evaluation data for planning.
• Plan for the unique problems of personal, social, and vocational adjustment experienced by persons with exceptionalities.

EDSP 4600 - Field Experience in Special Education–Mild to Moderate Educational Needs

• Demonstrate and use appropriate and modified assessment/data collection techniques tied to individual’s needs in various domains.
• Demonstrate and use instructional strategies appropriate to learner’s needs.
• Demonstrate collaboration with other professionals, related service providers, para-professionals, families, and use community resources.
• Demonstrate skills to promote and use language and communication.
• Demonstrate skills to promote appropriate learning environments and social interactions.
• Develop instructional plans and deliver instruction appropriate to individual needs.
• Engage in professional and ethical practices.

EDSP 4610 - Field Experience in Special Education–Moderate to Intensive Educational Needs

• Collaborate with other professionals, related service providers, para-professionals, families, and use community resources.
• Demonstrate and use instructional strategies appropriate to learners needs.
• Demonstrate skills to promote the use of language and communication.
• Demonstrate/use appropriate/modified assessment/data collection techniques to determine learning needs across various learning domains.
• Develop instructional plans/deliver instruction appropriate to individual.
• Engage in professional and ethical practices.

EDSP 4750 - Methods for Learners with Moderate to Intensive Educational Needs

• Demonstrate and use appropriate and modified assessment/data collection techniques tied to individual’s needs in various domains.
• Demonstrate and use instructional strategies appropriate to learner’s needs.
• Demonstrate collaboration with other professionals, related service providers, para-professionals, families, and use community resources.
• Demonstrate skills to promote and use language and communication.
• Demonstrate skills to promote appropriate learning environments/social interactions.
• Develop, IEPs, and instructional lesson plans and deliver Instruction appropriate to individual needs.
• Engage in professional and ethical practices.

EDSP 4770 - Collaboration, Curriculum Consultation, Co-Teaching and Teaming in Special Education

• Students will be able to analyze and evaluate general education curriculum standards, benchmarks and grade level indicators to allow access for learners with special needs.
• Students will be able to apply models of co-teaching attending to advantages, administrative support, teaching philosophies, delineation of roles, planning, communication strategies, developmental stages, scheduling, evaluation/feedback, and barriers.
• Students will be able to apply the principles of universal design for learning (UDL) to the development of standards-based curricula and adapt, modify, or align curriculum to meet the needs of learners.
• Students will be able to collaborate with parents and professionals in the development of student Individualized Education Programs (IEP).
• Students will be able to access and utilize information from family, school officials, legal system/community service agencies, unique services, networks, and organizations including career/vocational and transition support.
• Students will be able to analyze and apply collaboration/consultative roles in the integration of individuals with disabilities into the general curriculum/classroom, including the coordination of related service personnel to maximize instruction.
• Students will be able to develop and use individual assessment strategies to promote access to general education standards and performance objectives.
• Students will be able to access, research, and present current instructional methodologies that promote student learning for individuals with special needs.
• Students will be able to effectively use technology, collaboration and cooperative learning strategies, local and state resources to assist in planning, assessing, and evaluating integrated units of studies for learners with special needs.

EDSP 4850 - Assessment of Learners with Special Needs

• Students will be able to administer and interpret the results of appropriate standardized, norm-referenced measures of development, academic achievement, literacy/language or other nationally recognized standardized measures.
• Students will be able to apply assessment data to the development of Individualized Educational Programs (IEP).
• Students will be able to conduct family/ecological assessments.
• Students will be able to administer informal assessments and use benchmark and progress monitoring assessment data in a multi-tiered system of support (MTSS) model.
• Students will be able to discuss legal and ethical issues related to assessment.
• Students will be able to apply problem-solving approaches for addressing student needs that use a team approach.
• Students will be able to use assessment data for the purpose of instructional planning to determine future instructional practices, directions, and adaptations.
• Students will be able to administer and interpret the results of formative, value-added, authentic, portfolio, curriculum-based and summative assessments.

EDSP 4900 - Special Topics in Education - Special

• Students will increase their knowledge in Education - Special.

EDTE 1000 - Introduction to Teacher Education

• Students will be able to identify the role, rights and responsibilities of governmental institutions and community stakeholders in the educational process.
• Students will be able to exhibit knowledge of Ohio educator requirements with attention to the reasons for new developments and changes.
• Students will be able to analyze the impact of shifting demographics on education.
• Students will be able to distinguish between the purpose of education in the past and present.
• Students will be able to list the required knowledge, skills, dispositions, and ethical responsibilities of a professional educator.

EDTE 1010 - Introduction to Hip-Hop Based Education

• Students will be able to critically analyze the foundational pedagogical elements of hip-hop based education.
• Students will be able to discuss the influence of hip-hop based education in reframing equitable educational experiences.
• Students will be able to identify the role of hip-hop based education in challenging cultural oppression.
• Students will be able to identify the role of hip-hop based education in affirming student identities.
• Students will be able to identify the role of hip-hop based education in examining power within education as a whole.
• Students will be able to trace the historical development and investigate the cultural practice that gave rise to hip-hop based education

EDTE 2000 - Learning and Human Development

• Candidates will demonstrate knowledge of differences in the way students learn and how to create an accepting, supportive and fair classroom environment.
• Candidates will demonstrate knowledge of factors in students’ school, home, community, and culture that may influence their learning.
• Candidates will demonstrate knowledge of how theories of learning and human development can inform teaching practice.
• Candidates will demonstrate knowledge of major theories and concepts in motivation and their relation to classroom instruction.
• Candidates will demonstrate knowledge of major theories of learning and human development across the lifespan.
• Candidates will demonstrate knowledge of principles and types of assessment.

EDTE 2010 - Characteristics of Learners with Exceptionalities

• Candidates will demonstrate an understanding of definitions, identification, causes and prevalence of specific exceptionalities.
• Candidates will demonstrate an understanding of etiological factors and characteristics of students with exceptionalities and implications for education and life.
• Candidates will demonstrate an understanding of how exceptionalities may influence motivation, social, behavioral, and educational needs.
• Candidates will demonstrate an understanding of how to create a supportive learning environment that can be transmitted to the classroom fostering the self-worth of all students.
• Candidates will demonstrate an understanding of how various exceptionalities impact learning and development.
• Candidates will demonstrate an understanding of identify strategies that can be used in the classroom to help students develop an awareness of their own personal strengths and limitations through differentiation of curriculum, instruction, assessment.
• Candidates will demonstrate an understanding of issues related to similarities and differences between students with/without disabilities and appropriate levels of inclusion of students with exceptionalities within the continuum of services.
• Candidates will demonstrate an understanding of the central concepts, legislation, historical foundations, theories, philosophies, and current issues in special education including the impact of No Child Left Behind.
• Candidates will demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between different multicultural backgrounds, linguistic diversity and exceptionality.

EDTE 2020 - Field Experience in Education

• Students will be able to articulate insights about their own cultural norms and biases relative to public education.
• Students will be able to describe how history, values, policies, economic conditions, and/or beliefs and practices influence how a range of cultural groups interact with the U.S. public educational system.
• Students will be able to interpret how a range of cultural groups experience schooling and identify responses that value and their perspectives.
• Students will be able to discuss and interpret differences in communication styles of families from a range of cultural groups in educational settings.
• Students will be able to ask complex questions about other cultures’ educational experiences and articulate answers that reflect a range of perspectives.
• Students will be able to initiate and develop interactions with people from differing backgrounds while valuing and celebrating these interactions.

EDTE 2100 - Introduction to Youth Culture

• Students will be able to describe the tenants of youth culture pedagogy.
• Students will be able to apply youth culture pedagogy as a way to make meaning of the lived experiences of children and youth in and out of schools.
• Students will be able to compare youth culture pedagogy to existing theories and describe how it can inform their teaching practice.
• Students will be able to describe major theories and concepts in student motivation.
• Students will be able to critically examine major theories of learning and human development from childhood to young adulthood.

EDTE 2200 - Phonics and the Structure of Language

• Students will be able to identify orthographic patterns based on their frequency of occurrence in the English language.
• Students will be able to provide appropriate phonics instruction at the phonemic, syllabic, and morphemic levels.
• Students will be able to create and use multisensory instructional strategies to blend phonemic and syllabic units of language.
• Students will be able to model instructional strategies for decoding and encoding phonemic, syllabic, and morphemic units of language.
• Students will be able to describe the nature of the English language relative to its orthography and etymology.

EDTE 2500 - Issues in Global Education

• Students will be able to articulate insights about one’s own cultural rules and biases based on a sense of belonging to a common humanity, shared values and responsibilities, and human rights.
• Students will be able to analyze the complexity and interconnectedness of elements important to members of another culture in relation to its history, values, politics, communication styles, economy, or beliefs and practices.
• Students will be able to interpret intercultural experience from their own and others’ worldview and to act in a supportive manner that recognizes feelings, solidarity and respect for differences and diversity of another cultural group.
• Students will be able to investigate cultural differences in verbal and non-verbal communication and negotiate a shared understanding of global and educational issues based on those differences.
• Students will be able to ask complex questions of other cultures and to articulate answers to these questions that reflect multiple cultural perspectives toward a more peaceful and sustainable world.
• Students will be able to initiate and develop interactions with culturally different others while suspending judgment in valuing his / her interactions with culturally diverse people..

EDTE 2900 - Special Topics in Education - Teacher Education

• Students will be able to critically analyze various aspects of Teacher Education-related topics.
• Students will be able to apply newly acquired skills related to Teacher Education-related topics to their own teaching.

EDTE 3000 - Teaching Ohio in the Curriculum

• Students will be able to apply core social studies concepts of the Ohio New Learning Standards .
• Students will be able to identify pedagogical approaches to teaching Ohio history in grade 2-8 classrooms.
• Students will be able to identify and implement social studies concepts through an integrated curriculum model to teach Ohio in the curriculum.
• Students will be able to plan lessons that engage students in place-based education in elementary and middle childhood social studies classrooms.
• Students will be able to evaluate the importance of active and engaged learning as part of social studies education.

EDTE 3250 - Literature-Centered Developmental Reading Instruction

• Candidates will be aware of the need for and the ability to plan for differentiation to meet the needs of all students in the instruction of reading and writing.
• Candidates will develop a knowledge base and skills necessary to understand and teach the five elements of reading instruction.
• Candidates will develop an understanding of and the ability to implement the theories and research that define effective reading instruction.
• Candidates will develop an understanding of the relationships between the development of oral language and its effects on reading development.
• Candidates will develop skills necessary for appropriately using literature as a tool to help students become readers and writers.
• Candidates will understand, use, and teach the writing process.

EDTE 3500 - Globalization in Education

• Teacher candidates will demonstrate an understanding of the global impact on education of International Non-Governmental Organizations.
• Teacher candidates will demonstrate an understanding of the global impact on education of major international organizations, e.g. World Bank, OECD, UNESCO, IMF, e.a.
• Teacher candidates will demonstrate an understanding of the impact of globalization on American education and the world beyond.
• Teacher candidates will demonstrate an understanding of the impact of globalization on education in the world beyond their own nation.
• Teacher candidates will develop a global perspective and find ways to integrate that awareness in their instruction.

EDTE 3540 - Introduction to Inquiry & Nature of Science

• Students will be able to describe the history of science education in the US with a focus on contemporary standards and frameworks.
• Students will be able to discuss the characteristics of the Nature of Science and develop learning experiences to advance K-12 student ideas about it.
• Students will be able to differentiate between scientific inquiry, disciplinary core ideas, and crosscutting concepts, as well as integrate them to develop three-dimensional science learning experiences.
• Students will analyze and evaluate learning experiences for cognitive demand and responsiveness to the needs of diverse learners.
• Students will be able to describe and use various methods for eliciting and extending student ideas.
• Students will be able to explain research-based challenges and misconceptions associated with disciplinary core ideas.
• Students will be able to use data generated from diagnostic, formative, embedded, summative, and standardized assessments to inform instructional decision-making.

EDTE 3710 - Instructional Adaptations for Early Childhood Learners with Exceptionalities and Diverse Needs

• Students will be able to use co-planning and co-teaching methods to strengthen the content acquisition of all students.
• Students will be able to consult and collaborate with families, agencies, related-service providers, and community-based agencies.
• Students will be able to discuss issues, assurances, and due process rights related to assessment, eligibility, and placement of young children within a continuum of services.
• Students will be able to discuss the educational and social implications of the characteristics of various exceptionalities.
• Students will be able to evaluate and modify instructional practices in response to progress monitoring and ongoing assessment data.
• Students will be able to implement research-supported methods for academic and nonacademic instruction for young children with exceptional and diverse learning needs and their families.
• Students will be able to organize, develop, and sustain learning environments that support universally designed, developmentally appropriate intracultural and intercultural experiences.
• Students will be able to teach all students, including those who learn differently and who are from culturally diverse backgrounds.
• Students will be able to reflect on one’s practice to improve instruction and guide professional growth.
• Students will be able to use evidence-based strategies to strengthen the academic and nonacademic skills of young children with exceptional and diverse learning needs.

EDTE 3720 - Instructional Adaptations for Middle Childhood Learners with Exceptionalities and Diverse Needs

• Students will be able to apply co-planning and co-teaching methods to strengthen content acquisition of individuals with exceptional and diverse learning needs.
• Students will be able to analyze issues, assurances, and due process rights related to assessment, eligibility, and placement within a continuum of services.
• Students will be able to analyze and evaluate the educational and social implications of characteristics of various exceptionalities.
• Students will be able to evaluate and modify instructional practices in response to ongoing assessment data.
• Students will be able to implement research-supported methods for academic and nonacademic instruction of individuals with exceptional and diverse learning needs.
• Students will be able to organize, develop, and sustain learning environments that support positive intra-cultural and intercultural experiences.
• Students will be able to demonstrate skill in responding to differing ways of learning, including those from culturally diverse backgrounds, and implement strategies of support in the classroom.
• Students will be able to reflect in writing on one’s practice to improve instruction and guide professional growth.
• Students will be able to implement strategies to support and enhance communication skills of individuals with exceptional and diverse learning needs.

EDTE 3730 - Instructional Adaptations for Adolescent-Young Adult Learners with Exceptionalities & Diverse Needs

• Students will be able to apply knowledge of co-planning and co-teaching methods to strengthen content acquisition of individuals with exceptional and diverse learning needs.
• Students will be able to apply knowledge of issues, assurances, and due process rights related to assessment, eligibility, and placement within a continuum of services.
• Students will be able to identify and analyze the educational and social implications of characteristics of various exceptionalities.
• Students will be able to evaluate and modify instructional practices in response to ongoing assessment data.
• Students will be able to implement research-supported methods for academic and nonacademic instruction of individuals with exceptional and diverse learning needs.
• Students will be able to organize, develop, and sustain learning environments that support positive intra-cultural and intercultural experiences.
• Students will be able to respond to differing ways of learning, including those from culturally diverse backgrounds,
• Students will be able to reflect on one’s practice to improve instruction and guide professional growth.
• Students will be able to utilize strategies to support and enhance communication skills of individuals with exceptional and diverse learning needs.
• Students will be able to create a universally-designed lesson plan incorporating evidence-based practices and differentiating when necessary

EDTE 4110 - Developing Thinking Skills

• Students will be able to explain the thinking process.
• Students will be able to discuss core thinking skills.
• Students will be able to distinguish between lower and higher order thinking skills.
• Students will be able to develop and apply a repertoire of strategies to teach thinking skills.
• Students will be able to develop and use a repertoire of strategies for assessing thinking skills.
• Students will be able to evaluate teacher-centered vs. student-centered approaches to teaching thinking skills.

EDTE 4200 - Teaching Literacy in the Content Areas

• Students will be able to analyze the specific characteristics of literacy materials within their content area and the strategies and skills needed for effective learning through literacy in the content area.
• Students will be able to apply dispositions and understandings of the role and importance of literacy in their specific content area.
• Students will be able to design and implement strategies for the effective use of literacy materials with all K-12 students in their content area classroom.
• Students will be able to match literacy material used in their content area classrooms with K-12 students¿ reading, writing, speaking, and listening ability.
• Students will be able to create appropriate content area literacy instruction for English Language Learners.
• Students will be able to articulate how Dyslexia impacts content area literacy learning and apply appropriate adaptations to instructional planning.

EDTE 4210 - Foundations of Reading Instruction, Diagnosis, and Remediation for Classroom Teachers

• Students will be able to assess K-12 students for interest and motivation and plan literacy instruction accordingly.
• Students will be able to assess K-12 students in each of the five elements of literacy instruction: phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension.
• Students will be able to collaborate with parents as a source of information and for the purposes of communicating K-12 students’ literacy strengths and needs.
• Students will be able to use the assess-plan-teach cycle to inform instruction.
• Students will be able to apply K-12 student interests and other motivational strategies in their teaching of literacy.
• Students will be able to use assessment data to plan differentiated instruction designed to meet the literacy needs of individual K-12 students.

EDTE 4220 - Assessing and Teaching Struggling Readers

• Candidate will plan and teach appropriate lessons based on their assessment of a student’s reading.
• Candidates will communicate a student’s progress in reading instruction to parents (care givers) and other professionals.
• Candidates will develop an understanding of the role of standardized tests in determining students reading instructional needs.
• Candidates will learn to administer and interpret a number of different reading assessment instruments.

EDTE 4230 - Reading Practicum

• Candidates will develop the ability to plan and evaluate professional development sessions.
• Candidates will develop the knowledge base, personal skills, dispositions, and strategies necessary for working with struggling readers..
• Candidates will practice ethical, professional behavior.
• Candidates will use research to support their teaching practices while tutoring.

EDTE 4300 - Overseas Student Teaching

• Students will be able to analyze current events in their COST receiving site.
• Students will be able to articulate ‘teacher as traveler’ as a concept beyond tourism.
• Students will be able to compare and contrast the educational system in their COST receiving site and the United States.
• Students will be able to analyze, compare and contrast the political system in their COST receiving site and the United States..
• Students be able to identify the significant cultural aspects of their COST receiving site.

EDTE 4430 - Teaching Environmental Education

• Students will be able to use strategies for assessing student knowledge about environmental issues.
• Students will be able to describe and apply various strategies for teaching P-12 students about environmental issues.
• Students will be able to discuss issues in environmental education, including sustainability and environmental justice.
• Students will be able to summarize the nature of environmental education.
• Students will be able to defend the role of environmental leadership and advocacy.

EDTE 4900 - Special Topics in Education - Teacher Education

• Students will be able to critically analyze various aspects of Teacher Education-related topics.
• Students will be able to apply newly acquired skills related to Teacher Education-related topics to their own teaching.

EE 1014 - Introduction to Electrical Engineering

• Students will be able to analyze an electric circuit evaluating currents, voltages, power and resistances, applying basic laws and methods of analysis.
• Students will be able to use a digital multimeter to measure electrical quantities.
• Students will be able to construct an electric circuit.
• Students will be able to use Matlab to analyze and verify results from real measurements, and plot basic graphs.
• Students will be able to apply basic concepts of statistics in the framework of electrical engineering.
• Students will be able to use a microcontroller and program it to navigate a robot.

EE 1024 - Introduction to Computer Engineering

• Students will be able to express numbers in various bases (including decimal, binary, and hexadecimal) and perform binary arithmetic
• Students will be able to express characters with ASCII notation with/without parity
• Students will be able to construct a truth table for a Boolean expression
• Students will be able to analyze multi-variable Boolean expressions and create reduced expressions via Boolean algebra and/or Karnaugh maps
• Students will be able to construct state diagrams and state tables for sequential systems
• Students will be able to analyze, design, construct, and test combinational and sequential logic circuits
• Students will be able to perform experiments and analyze the results
• Students will be able to create technical laboratory reports

EE 2104 - Circuits I

• Students will be able to apply circuit theorems to circuit analysis.
• Students will be able to apply principles of DC circuit analysis.
• Students will be able to apply principles of nodal and mesh analysis.
• Students will be able to perform capacitance and inductance circuit analysis.
• Students will be able to analyze operational amplifier circuits.
• Students will be able to perform transient response analysis and through phasors perform AC circuit analysis.

EE 2114 - Circuits II

• Students will be able to describe three-phase circuits.
• Students will be able to explain magnetically coupled circuits and transformers.
• Students will be able to explain frequency response concepts.
• Students will be able to perform circuit analysis using the Laplace transform.
• Students will be able to analyze passive and active filters.
• Students will be able to perform AC power analysis.

EE 2213 - Instrumentation Laboratory

• Students will be able to employ appropriate measurement techniques and safety procedures while using electronic instrumentation and equipment to conduct experiments.
• Students will be able to calculate measurement error associated with the electrical characteristics and limitations of electronic instrumentation and equipment.
• Students will be able to compare analyzed experimental data to calculated values based on theorems, governing laws, and methods of analysis for electrical circuits.
• Students will be able to interpret analyzed experimental data with respect to the assumptions of the original experiment objective.
• Students will be able to produce documentation to communicate technical information from analyzed experimental data.
• Students will be able to use electronic instrumentation to identify and solve engineering problems, monitor existing or developing systems, and acquire information needed for decision making.

EE 2324 - Analytical Foundations of Electrical Engineering

• Students will be able to express the role mathematics plays in modeling, solving and interpreting the results for engineering problems.
• Students will be able to apply basic matrix and vector operations to solve linear systems of equations used in electrical engineering.
• Students will be able to solve electrical engineering problems using the gradient, divergence and curl operations.
• Students will be able to solve ordinary differential equations with application to transient circuit analysis.
• Students will be able to analyze complex variables as applied to their use in signal theory.
• Students will be able to construct solutions to electrical engineering problems using mathematical modeling software.

EE 2900 - Special Topics in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

• Students will be able to meet the outcomes of the course as established by the instructor.

EE 3051 - Basic Electrical Laboratory

• Students will be able to apply diode theory to circuits using diodes to analyze expected circuit performance.
• Students will be able to apply amplifier theory to circuits using operational amplifier to analyze expected circuit performance.
• Students will be able to employ laboratory instruments to determine if real circuit performance matches expected circuit performance.

EE 3143 - Basic Electrical Engineering II

• Ability to analyze diode circuits.
• Ability to analyze operational amplifier circuits.
• Ability to analyze transistor circuits.

EE 3214 - Electromagnetics and Materials I

• Students will be able to apply vector calculus operations and theorems to find electrostatic and magnetostatic field components.
• Students will be able to analyze electric and magnetic fields in materials.
• Students will be able to describe the Fundamentals of Electrostatics and Magnetostatics.
• Students will be able to solve electrostatic boundary value problems.
• Students will be able to solve for field and flux components using integral and differential forms of Maxwell’s equations.

EE 3223 - Electromagnetics and Materials II

• Student will be able to communicate effectively by working in laboratory groups.
• Students will have an ability to understand electromagnetic wave propagation at reflections under various boundary conditions.
• Students will have the ability to design and conduct experiments using electromagnetic and light wave signals in guided transmission medias.
• Students will have the ability to understand transmission in bounded medium such as transmission lines and waveguides.
• Students will have the ability to use techniques, skills and modern engineering tools in a laboratory environment.

EE 3334 - Linear Signals and Systems

• Students will be able to analyze the stability and performance (damping ratio, natural frequency, overshoot, settling time, etc.) of an LTI system using its impulse response, frequency response and transfer function.
• Students will be able to design, implement and test by computer simulation continuous-time frequency-selective filters.
• Students will be able to relate the convolution integral, Fourier series, Fourier transform and Laplace transform to the characteristics and behaviors of signals and systems..
• Students will be able to validate a mathematical model for a signal, a frequency selective filter or a control system with respect to the underlying application.

EE 3343 - Electronics I

• Students will be able to Identify and classify semiconductor materials
• Students will be able to explain operation of diodes, MOSFETs and BJTs
• Students will be able to differentiate between the different types of MOSFET and BJTs
• Students will be able to analyze circuits with active semiconductor devices
• Students will be able to recognize and sketch basic static CMOS logic gates at transistor level
• Students will be able to use transistors in one-stage amplifiers
• Students will be able to employ circuit simulation tools for diodes and transistors

EE 3513 - Digital Signals and Systems

• Students will be able to analyze continuous time signals.
• Students will be able to calculate continuous time fourier transforms.
• Students will be able to perform DFT and inverse DFT.
• Students will be able to perform finite impulse response filtering.
• Students will be able to perform spectrum representation, sampling and aliasing.

EE 3613 - Computer Organization

• Ability to appreciate how numerical values are represented in digital computers.
• Ability to compute the various parameters of performance of standard I/O types.
• Ability to explain basic instruction level parallelism (pipelining) and the major hazards that may occur.
• Ability to explain the Von Neumann machine, explain the relationship between the representation of machine level operation at the binary level and their representation by a symbolic assembler..
• Ability to explain the use of memory hierarchy and memory management.
• Ability to provide alternative implementations of datapaths using microprogrammed control.
• Ability to understand the factors that contribute to computer performance, understand its limitations and select the most appropriate performance metrics while evaluating a computer.
• Ability to write small programs and fragments of assembly language code to demonstrate an understanding of machine level operations.

EE 3713 - Applied Probability and Statistics for Electrical Engineers

• Students will be able to compute the probability of simple and compound events.
• Students will be able to apply Bayes Rule and the Law of Total Probability to problems involving conditional probabilities.
• Students will be able to define probability density and distribution functions, expected value, variance, and standard deviation for discrete and continuous random variables.
• Students will be able to define joint and marginal density and distribution functions.
• Students will be able to apply correlation, covariance, and correlation coefficient of multiple random variables to relevant engineering problems.
• Students will be able to solve open-ended problems and evaluate the efficacy of the solution.
• Students will be able to create a variety of documents using electronic tools, appropriate formats, grammar, and illustrations to communicate technical information in a clear and concise manner.

EE 3753 - Introduction to Computer Networks

• Ability to compare and contrast the OSI model with the TCP/IP model.
• Ability to demonstrate an understanding of data communication with multimedia (audio, video) over IP.
• Ability to demonstrate the differences between circuit and packet switching.
• Ability to demonstrate the understanding of the elements of a protocol, and the concept of layering.
• Ability to demonstrate understanding of basic concepts of error correction and detection at the data link layer and below.
• Ability to describe the main characteristics of mobile (wireless) IP and explain the differences between regular and mobile IP with regard to performance as well as location management.
• Ability to understand basic concepts of routing and IPv4.
• Ability to understand the common barriers to network security and the major issues involved in implementing proper security measures.
• Ability to understand the concept of network architecture and its hardware components.
• Ability to understand various network topologies and technologies for implementing LANs and WANs.

EE 3954 - Microprocessors and Microcontrollers

• Students will be able to explain PIC (programmable interface controllers) microcontroller architecture.
• Students will be able to construct microcontroller applications in assembly language.
• Students will be able to construct high level requirements for microcontroller applications.
• Students will be able to apply modern engineering techniques, skills and tools to the development of microcontroller applications.

EE 3963 - Electric Machines

• Student will have the ability to analyze electric machines.
• Students will be able to describe the operation of AC synchronous generators and motors.
• Students will be able to describe the operation of DC motors and generators.
• Students will be able to describe the operation of induction motors and generators.
• Students will be able to describe the operation of transformers.
• Students will have a broad understanding of the major electrical energy conversion devices.
• Students will have knowledge of practical issues with real electric machines.

EE 3973 - Electronics II

• Students will be able to identify major one and multi-stage amplifiers.
• Students will be able to interpret causes and effects of finite-gain OPAMP’s
• Students will be able to analyze the DC operating point in discrete and integrated multi-stage amplifiers
• Students will be able to recognize and analyze current mirror bias circuits.
• Students will be able to describe the AC load of a MOSFET and BJT to a circuit
• Students will be able to solve for gain and bandwidth in discrete and integrated amplifiers.

EE 4053 - Physical and Power Electronics

• Students will be able to apply semiconductor theory to solid state devices.
• Students will be able to derive the characteristics of junction transistors from fundamentals.
• Students will be able to use semiconductor devices for the conversion and control of electric power.

EE 4143 - Design of Digital Circuits

• Ability to analyze MOS circuits using analog and digital simulators.
• Ability to analyze and test digital designs using VHDL.
• Ability to create VHDL circuit models.
• Ability to program Xilinx FPGA chips.
• Ability to use circuit synthesis methods.
• Understanding ASIC design flow.
• Working Knowledge of Mentor Graphics tools, ICGraph, DRC, and LVS.

EE 4183 - Micro and Nano Fabrication

• Appreciation of basic clean-room tools, safe operating practices and occupational hazards in micro-fabrication processes.
• Foster an appreciation of the interdisciplinary forces and trends that guide the development of nano-scale science and integration of technology today.
• Improving literature surveying, critical analysis and presentation skills of students using the state-of-the-art developments in micro/nano engineering and technology.
• Review of background material required for following developments in integrative micro and nano-engineering research that encapsulate electronics, material science, MEMS, biomedical sciences and optics.
• Understanding of basic steps in semiconductor device fabrication and solid-state material characterization techniques, and their theoretical framework.

EE 4213 - Feedback Control Theory

• Students will be able to construct bode plots.
• Students will be able to construct nyquist plots and apply the nyquist criterion.
• Students will be able to design compensators.
• Students will be able to develop linear approximations of nonlinear systems.
• Students will be able to develop mathematical models and computer simulations of physical systems.
• Students will be able to perform root locus analysis.
• Students will be able to perform stability analysis.
• Students will be able to perform steady-state error analysis.
• Students will be able to use of computer software for analysis, design, and simulation.
• Students will have an understanding of stability margins.
• Students will have an understanding of transient response characteristics.