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  • Electives

    • Mix and match electives to meet your professional goals

  • Reading Teacher Certification Courses

    • Earn graduate credits via online courses and meet your professional development goals for Wisconsin Dept. of Public Instruction (WI 316) Reading Teacher licensure requirements.

  • e-Learning and Online Teaching Certificate Courses

    • Earn graduate credits via online courses and meet your professional development goals to be certified as highly qualified in the area of e-learning instruction and training.

  • Instructional Design Certificate

    • Earn graduate credits via online courses and meet your professional development goals to be certified as highly qualified in the area of instructional design. 

Electives

EDUC 744-911 Effective Classroom Management
Research-based strategies for effective management of the K-12 classroom including organization of time, physical space, curriculum, instruction, and assessment to minimize and prevent classroom management problems and create a classroom culture that supports cooperative learning (2 credits)

EDUC 744-914 Methods of Teaching Middle School Math
Research, issues and problems related to current reform in teaching middle school mathematics. Planning curriculum, assessing student learning, managing instruction, and providing for individual needs.(3 Credits)

EDUC 744-920 PK-Elementary 6-Traits Writing Instruction
Application of the 6-Traits theory to assessment and instruction of student writing in PK through grade 4. Study of the continuum of primary and elementary language arts skills and writing across the curriculum. (3 Credits)

EDUC 744-909 Middle School through Adult 6-Traits Writing Instruction
Concepts, instructional methods and assessment strategies for improving writing instruction, middle school through post-secondary. Self-assessment strategies, application of 6-traits, technology and software applications, and writing across the curriculum. (3 Credits)

EDUC 744-925 Bullying in Schools
Issues, interventions and instructional strategies for creating a safe learning environment. Best practices for breaking the cycle of bullying and cyberbullying. (2 Credits)

EDUC 744-928 Instructional Applications of Digital Photography
Concepts, instructional technology strategies, and research for integrating digital photography and photographic resources across the curriculum. Explore connections between emerging literacies and writing, reading and learning in content areas and strategies to stimulate inquiry, creativity, critical thinking and digital storytelling. (3 credits)

EDUC  744 – 929 Web Design for Educators
Concepts, research, and instructional technology strategies for integrating web design across the curriculum. (3 credits)

EDUC 744-941 Mentoring Teachers (PK-12)
Current research and strategies to support, guide and foster personal and professional growth of new educators. (3 Credits)

EDUC 744-948 Critical Thinking in the Classroom
Transform teaching to provoke questioning and examination of classroom materials. Strategies to develop student competence in critical thinking skills. (3 Credits)

EDUC 744-949 Seminar: Assessment for Learning
Analysis of assessment practices and accountability systems. Role of standardized tests and differentiated classroom assessment in balanced assessment. Interpreting assessment results and communicating student learning to stakeholders. Best practices to promote learning.  (3 Credits)

EDUC 744-951 Seminar: Digital Classroom: Teaching Information Literacy
Comprehensive exploration of information literacy and integration of primary digital archives with K-12 curriculum. Pedagogical and constructivist considerations including rationale for using primary sources to stimulate inquiry, creativity and higher order thinking, formulating research queries, evaluating information resources, teaching students research strategies, planning partnership activities with libraries and museums.  (3 Credits)

EDUC 744-954 Seminar: Instructional Leadership Skills
Comprehensive exploration of instruction-related leadership principles and roles for lead teachers, grade level team leaders, department heads, program coordinators and administrators. The course emphasizes self-discovery, leadership issues, and team building skills for continued growth as an instructional leader to improve student achievement through a school improvement process that is directed toward strengthening teaching and learning.  (3 Credits)

EDUC 744-956 Seminar: Building Better Instruction with Technology
Focus on integration of available technology to enhance proven instructional strategies and engage students by fusing technology and research-based strategies into curriculum. (3 Credits)

EDUC 744-957 Differentiated Instruction
Research-based instructional methods for creating differentiated instruction, focusing on how to efficiently meet the varied needs of the growing diversity of learners in today's classrooms including English language learners, students with special needs, and students with a variety of learning styles and interests.  (3 Credits)

EDUC 744-962 Poverty in Schools
Characteristics and issues facing economically disadvantaged students. Traits of high-performing, high-poverty schools with emphasis on building strategies and community partnerships to reduce the achievement gap. (2 credits)

EDUC 744-963 Teaching English Language Learners (ELL) in General Education
Current trends, research, and best practices in teaching English Language Learners in the inclusive general education classroom. Stages of second language acquisition; strategies using nonlinguistic representations for communication with ELL/ESL students; differentiated instruction that combines teaching content and developing language skills; parent and community involvement. (3 Credits)

EDUC 744-964 Workforce Development: Every Teacher’s Responsibility
Research on the relationship between skills needed in the workforce and taught in schools. Current trends and strategies for infusing problem solving, teamwork, creative and innovative thinking skills, and contextual learning in any curricular area's pedagogy. (3 credits)

EDUC 744-965 Issues and Problems in Teaching Primary Mathematics
Issues and problems related to current reform in teaching early childhood/primary mathematics, including planning curriculum, assessing student learning, managing instruction, and providing for individual needs. (3 credits)

EDUC 744 - 966 Implementing Instructional Technology Innovations
Current trends, research, and best practices for supporting instruction with appropriate application of recent and innovative educational technologies. (3 credits)

EDUC 744-967 Understanding Autism Spectrum Disorders
Current research, etiology, characteristics, special issues, educational interventions, and programming considerations to work effectively with autistic children in the mainstreamed/inclusive classroom. (3 credits)

EDUC 744-968 Global Awareness and Collaboration Across the Curriculum
Impact of 21st century global economic forces on learning and knowledge production. Integration of global learning communities across the curriculum using digital communication tools. (2 credits)

Reading Teacher Certification Courses

RDGED-701 Developmental Reading K-12
This course focuses on evidence-based instructional practices for promoting literacy development of beginning, developing and fluent readers and writers including those of varying levels and abilities. Comprehensive review of concepts, methods, research, and historical developments that form the conceptual foundations of teaching reading. Pedagogical considerations, including general conditions for learning to read and write; developmental phases of reading; principles of good reading instruction; development of a personal philosophy about teaching reading as a reflective practitioner. (3 Credits)

RDGED-702 Seminar: Reading in the Content Areas K-12
Research-based teaching methods, study strategies, and technology focusing on the abilities to use language processes (reading, writing, speaking, listening) to learn subject matter across the curriculum. Consideration will be given to individual differences among readers in relationship to the cultural and political aspects of content literacy. (3 Credits)

RDGED-703 Children's Literature in the Reading Program
Evaluation, selection, and teaching of literature in the elementary school language arts program. A survey of historically significant books with a focus on authors and illustrators writing for today's young readers. (3 Credits)

RDGED 704 Young Adult Literature in the Reading Program (grades 6-12)
Surveys literature for and about the young adult (ages 12-18). Examines literature themes, writing techniques, and opportunities for integrating into classroom/library programs. Focuses on building an appreciation of literature, encouraging student reading, and building critical thinking and literacy skills across the curriculum. Topics include the culture of teens and popular fiction, as well as information books and books cited for literary qualities. (3 Credits)

RDGED-705 Instructional Techniques for
Assisting Students with Reading Difficulties
Integration of psycholinguistic theory into an interactive strategic model of remedial interventions based on the foundational research of literacy acquisition in a community environment. Integrating reading, writing and spelling into an effective and viable program for struggling readers and special populations, including the learning disabled. This is one of the required courses for the Wisconsin 316 Reading Teacher License. (3 Credits)

RDGED-706 Assessment and Evaluation
of Reading and Language Development
A study of the interrelationship of qualitative assessment and evaluation to literacy development including current research in reading and language arts practices. Selection, administration and interpretation of formative and summative literacy assessments for the purpose of evaluating reading and language processes. (3 Credits)

e-Learning and Online Teaching Certificate Courses

EDUC-760 E-Learning for Educators
Historical background and current trends in e-learning. Concepts and foundations of best practices for successful teaching online. E-learning theory, principles, learning management systems, and web-based technology tools.

EDUC-761 Creating Collaborative Communities in e-Learning
Concepts, methods and research for creating and facilitating a collaborative online community of practice. Dynamics of facilitated synchronous and asynchronous discussion, questioning skills, conflict resolution, netiquette, and collaborative learning through problem-based scenarios, simulations, and hands-on practice moderating online discussions.

EDUC-762 Assessment in e-Learning
Performance-based assessment. Summative and formative feedback methods to assess student learning in the online classroom. Best practices for grading procedures, prevention of plagiarism in the digital environment, electronic evaluation tools, using electronic record keeping systems and methods for evaluating e-portfolios, discussion postings, and group projects.

EDUC-763 Instructional Design for e-Learning 
Evaluation, discussion, and application of instructional design theories and principles for e-learning. Examination of hybrid, self-paced and facilitated e-learning experiences delivered via learning management systems. Scenario based simulations and case study analysis. Creating interactive multimedia learning objects. Application of accessibility and usability guidelines in web-based course design.

EDUC-764  e-Learning Practicum
Practicum in teaching online with a cooperating online instructor. Application of online pedagogy and technology evaluated through observation, discussion and reflections. Completion of a professional development plan and an e-portfolio of evidence of attainment of online learning standards.

Instructional Design Certificate

EDUC – 765 Trends and Issues in Instructional Design
In-depth comparison of current instructional design theories and models, variables that affect adult learning, techniques for stimulating and sustaining learner motivation, reinforcement of learning, skill transfer, and use of cognitive task analysis to determine instructional content.

EDUC - 766 Instructional Strategies and Assessment Methods
Development of instructional goals, objectives and assessment of outcomes. Methods for assessing learner performance and mapping appropriate assessment methods to instructional strategies and learning objectives. Performance-based assessment and evaluation tools to assess learner performance. Design of formative and summative evaluation methods. (Prerequisite EDUC 765)

EDUC - 767 Designing Computer-Based Training (CBT)
Just-in time scenario-based modular development, user interface design, visual design, usability testing, and execution of common instructional strategies employed in self-paced products. Research, trends and standards in computer-based training; development of reusable learning objects using multimedia software.

EDUC  - 768 Project Management for Instructional Development
Examination of the initiation, planning, and closure of instructional development projects and practical knowledge on managing project scope, work breakdown structure, schedules, and resources including budgeting. Analysis of instructional development project life cycle.