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Department of Educational Theory & Practice (cont'd)Teaching Licensure Option
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| Credits | |
| Secondary and K-12 | |
| EDCI 310 Curriculum and Instruction for Middle School, High School, & K-12 Teachers | 3 |
| EDCI 484 Student Teaching K-12 OR EDCI 486 Student Teaching Secondary |
9 |
| ^EDF 100 Education and Democracy | 3 |
| EDF 225 Human Development in Education | 3 |
| EDF 250 Educational Psychology | 3 |
| EDF 450 Philosophical, Legal & Ethical Issues in Education | 3 |
| HHP 201 Core Concepts in Health | 3 |
| RD 310 Reading and Writing Across the Curriculum | 3 |
| SPED 260 Introduction to Teaching Exceptional Learners | 3 |
| Content Area Methods Course | 3-4 |
| Total Professional Core credits | 36-37 |
| ^Also satisfies Academic Foundations Requirements, EDF 120 may be substituted for EDF 100, but EDF 120 does not satisfy Academic Foundations Requirements. | |
Professional Core Requirements
The Professional Core at Montana State University Billings combines the intellectual foundations of education and the professional knowledge and skills required of all teachers into a coherent sequence of courses. The core provides the basis for understanding the philosophical, historical, cultural, and sociopolitical means by which society attempts cultural transmission and it provides the opportunity to acquire the knowledge and skills that are essential for effective instruction. It includes the range of human development and learning as they affect instructional planning, evaluation, curriculum design and implementation, performance skills, management of classrooms, direction of students, professional responsibilities, and ethical issues affecting teacher effectiveness.
At different points in its sequence of courses, the Professional Core engages students in supervised practice applying their developing knowledge and skills. By having faculty who hold diverse disciplinary perspectives teach throughout its sequence, the Professional Core encourages students to develop a professionally responsible understanding of the diversity that defines learners and teachers. The student teaching experience completes the sequence and includes both a final look at classroom skills and a capstone seminar.
The Professional Core presents a balanced approach to epistemology from philosophical, psychological, and sociological perspectives. The core is predicated on the evidential nature of knowledge required for the professional practice of education. While the professional practice of education is also informed by belief and intuition, it is ultimately defensible only to the extent that it has evidential support. The Professional Core engages students in both the processes and products of human knowing as such knowing is central to all aspects of education. The Professional Core involves the (a) creation, (b) facilitation of change, (c) transmission, and (d) application of human knowledge across the diversity of ways in which individuals understand human knowledge
