Courses

GLOBALIZATION & EDUCATION

Spring 2023

Spring 2022

Spring 2021

This course will study broad perspectives on, theories of, and practices in education and how this has been impacted by globalization and its ensuing political, economic, and social effects across the world. The course includes an exploration of how language, culture, and content intersect in education. The purpose of this exploration is to better prepare students as global citizens as they seek to solve national and sub-national problems, and to research how these solutions can contribute to addressing global challenges and inequities.

ELEMENTARY MATHEMATICS CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION

FALL 2023

FALL 2022

FALL 2021

FALL 2020

In this course, we will explore what it means to learn and teach mathematics with understanding and how we can help students from diverse cultural, racial, social, and linguistic backgrounds appreciate its beauty and power. We will pay particular attention to how children think about mathematics and learn to use what we know about children’s thinking to design and adapt instructional tasks. We will discuss the roles of students and teachers in the classroom, and how to foster an equitable classroom environment that encourages rich discussion of mathematics. In this course future teachers will also engage in researching topics related to teaching and learning in the mathematics classroom in the K-12 setting.

BORDER STUDIES, IMMERSION, AND ENGAGED SCHOLARSHIP

WINTER 2023

WINTER 2022

This course enables students to expand their understandings of Immigration, Border Studies, and Citizenship and Human Rights through an immersion experience on the U.S.-Mexico border. In collaboration with BorderLinks, our institutional host on the border, students will investigate immigration issues from a variety of different perspectives. In particular students will:

  • Deepen their knowledge about immigration issues from an interdisciplinary perspective.
  • Connect “border issues” that emerge on the U.S.-Mexico border with social, cultural, political, and other “borders” and boundaries that register at the national and community levels.
  • Deepen their understanding of citizenship as it connects with educational and immigration rights.
  • Compare the lives and experiences of people at the border with the national news coverage of the “immigration problem”.

ESL & BILINGUAL EDUCATION – PRACTICUM

FALL 2020

This course is designed to provide ESL/bilingual Education pre-service teachers with ample opportunities to observe ESL/bilingual perspectives. Pre-service teachers will observe the integration of grade-level language and content instruction as they actively reflect during pre- and post-observation conferences with a University Supervisor.

During the field experience, students will also observe and assist with ESL lessons for small or whole groups of ESL/emergent bilingual students. The intern will also participate in pre- and post-observation conferences with the course instructor.