Graduate Catalog: 2012-2013 - Alabama A&M University

skills. Projects will involve models that draw uponteachers’ own questions, knowledge, and concernsas a basis for exploration and action. Candidateswill develop an understanding of research that isdesigned to both inform and support teachers’engagement in classroom issues. Candidates willidentify an area of interest and move fromconception of a field-based research topic to ananalytic framework for analyzing data. Allcandidates will submit a substantial written researchreport that includes a thorough review of thescientific literature. Presentation of an informal oralreport is required. Permission of the Chair of theReading Program is required for candidates toreceive credit for reading/literacy research.ECE 612 Advanced Instructional Strategies forYoung Children – Three semester hours. Thiscourse presents and explores a scientific approach toclassroom instruction. It is designed to foster thedevelopment of a personal philosophy of teachingwhich will serve as a guide for action in all phasesof traditional and innovative instruction and willinvolve strategies for analysis of teaching,individualized instruction, and mode of evaluationof learning.ECE 625 Trends in Teaching Social Studies inElementary Schools – Three semester hours. Thiscourse is concerned with a detailed consideration ofproblems concerned with selection of what to teach,the grade placement of content, methods, andmaterials of teaching, current research, and means ofevaluating achievements in social studies withparticular attention given to recent trends.ECE 671 Advanced Research in Elementary andEarly Childhood – Three semester hours. Thiscourse is concerned with guiding the candidate inthe development of the first three chapters in thethesis, according to the latest APA Manual. Thiscourse makes it possible for a candidate to pursue anarea of special interest and develop the foundationof a thesis completing the first three chapters (athesis is directed by a major advisor who maychoose not to use the three chapters developed inthis course in the completion of the candidate’sactual thesis). This study is done under thesupervision of the instructor, and may culminatewith an examination based on the content.EARLY CHILDHOODECH 506 Curriculum Design – Three semesterhours. Curriculum design in light of the latestunderstandings and needs in early childhoodeducation with some experience in theimplementation of certain aspects of the curriculumin laboratory school P-3.ECH 516 Multi-Sensory Approaches – Threesemester hours. The development of the sensoryavenues and the concomitant processes in infancyand childhood, including concept information,development of these processes, and evaluatingprocess are given consideration. Practicalexperiences identifying learning disabilities.ECH 517 Theory, Methods and Materials inEarly Childhood Education – Three semesterhours. The philosophies and methods extant in earlychildhood education, their purposes and efficacy,including a look at special education and itsinvolvement in the mainstream of education. It willinclude laboratory observation and participation.ECH 595 Internship in Early ChildhoodEducation – Six semester hours. This course is anintensive 14-week, full-time supervised internship ina public school. Weekly on-campus seminars are arequired part of the course.ECH 602 Strategies of Parent Involvement –Three semester hours. The importance and optimalrole of parent involvement factors in the being andbecoming of the child and adolescent through thevarious stages of the metamorphosis to maturity andbeyond. The method will be competency-based andpermit selection of a particular stage in the role ofparent involvement for concentration at any givenage and stage of human development by each of theclass members, while at the same time pursuing acomprehensive knowledge of the role of parenting atall stages, with an emphasis on optimal strategies forinvolvement. The student will be required todemonstrate the ability to prescribe strategies forparent involvement at each stage of thechild/adolescent development.ECH 698 Thesis I – Three semester hours.Candidates will complete the proposed thesis.ECH 699 Thesis II – Three semester hours.Candidates will complete the thesis.ECH 602 Strategies of Parent Involvement –Three semester hours. The importance and optimalrole of parent involvement factors in the being andbecoming of the child and adolescent through thevarious stages to the maturity and beyond. Thecourse will focus on parent involvement for119